At a concert many said was ill-timed – considering the ‘struggle’, ‘protest vote’ and all – Mickie Wine took full advantage of big brother Bobi Wine’s popularity to fill up Serena hotel’s Victoria ballroom.
The Saturday concert was sold out and clearly rode on the present-day political vibes, which show an unexpected, nationwide surge in popularity for Mickie Wine’s brother Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, the NUP party president and presidential candidate.
In attendance was Bobi himself with some of his siblings, as well as singers King Saha and Nubian Li, Buganda’s Prince David Wasajja and Pastor Wilson Bugembe, who also performed.
It was not Omulangira Ssuuna’s night, as he was publicly snubbed by Bobi Wine when he approached the singer-turned-politician’s table for a handshake, although he later got a reluctant fist bump.
Bugembe, on the other hand, provided one of the night’s highlights when he joined Bobi Wine to freestyle their collabo, Ojjanga N’osaba, in which the two singers improvised and replaced the original lyrics with funny political banter, as the crowd sang along.
Bugembe made it clear that Bobi is his brother, but that he also loves President Museveni, who is running for a seventh term as president. In return, Bobi goaded the pastor in Luganda that the reason he does not fellowship with him on Sunday is because he (Bugembe) and his kind “fear the man with the hat more than you fear God”.
And the crowd went wild! Meanwhile on stage, Mickie Wine put on a good performance, singing all his songs, and then some. But truth is, it was a show clearly timed to tap into the prevailing political fever. And it worked.
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