WAKISO, Uganda, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Uganda's main opposition party Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) delegates convened on Friday to choose a new president to steer the party ahead of the 2021 presidential elections.
Dan Mugarura, the party's electoral commission chairperson, told Xinhua that 1,209 party delegates are expected to cast their votes to choose the party leader for the next five years.
Four candidates including the incumbent FDC president Gregory Mugisha Muntu are competing for the party's top job.
The race is tight between Muntu, a former Ugandan army commander, and Patrick Amuriat Oboi, former legislator for Kumi County in eastern Uganda.
The elected president will be charged with mobilizing support to remove the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) from power in the 2021 elections.
The NRM legislators have been seeking to amend the country's constitution to remove the 75-year age limit for presidential candidates to allow incumbent president Yoweri Museveni to stand in the 2021 polls.
Museveni, 73, has been in power for over 30 years.
