He was the coordinator of intelligence services and a senior presidential adviser to President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni.
He also attended the Law Development Centre for the diploma in legal practice where he left after a clerkship for cadet training in Tanzania.
He said that Sejusa is a family name that is also reflected on some of his academic documents but that he had abandoned it "around secondary school level" but that he would re-claim as "everybody back home" refers to him as such.
The Sejusa name is a Luganda rendering that is loosely translated as "I have no regrets;" it also has the same meaning in the Ankole rendition of Tinyefuza, which he said was a reason to take a new identity.
The party was founded in November 2013[7] with an official announcement later made in London, United Kingdom, where former General David Sejusa was in exile.
Sejusa denied seeking the presidency and said that it was "a waste of time" to run against Museveni within the structures of the current system.
He added, the week following his departure as an MP representing the military, that "no one should imagine that Museveni will be removed through elections.