 The UPC won a majority in the April 1962 general elections for the National Assembly, so Obote was tasked with forming a government.He became Prime Minister of a UPC-KY coalition government, with the KY holding mostly insignificant portfolios.Obote subsequently undermined the alliance with the KY by establishing UPC offices in Baganda in contravention of the inter-party agreement, and by encouraging KY members of the assembly to defect to his party through offers of patronage.