National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulani, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has urged Ugandans to ignore the election results being announced by the Electoral Commission (EC).
Branding the provisional results as “fake,” the pop-star-turned-politician accused EC Chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama of misleading the country by announcing unverified poll figures that suggest President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) is poised to clinch a seventh term in office.
“IGNORE the fake results being announced by Byabakama. He can’t tell anybody where those results are coming from,” Bobi Wine tweeted on Friday, January 16. He further claimed that, “Our agents at the tally centre are asking him for the source of these results, and the regime enabler can’t say a thing. The PEOPLE OF UGANDA will have the final say on this nonsense.”
After casting his ballot at a polling centre in the Magere neighbourhood of Kasangati Town near Kampala on Thursday, Bobi Wine went silent, with NUP later alleging that military officers were deployed to surround his home.
According to Bobi Wine, the military placed him and his family under house arrest.
“These criminals even jumped over the fence and entered our compound. My house is still besieged — no one is allowed to come in or go out,” he said.
Bobi Wine stated that Museveni’s government was acting not out of “strength” but out of fear of the people they have “offended by committing so many atrocities against them.”
“And last evening, they attacked our Deputy President for Buganda, Hon. Muwanga Kivumbi, and killed ten of our supporters who were at his home. This is after they abducted our Deputy President for the Western Region and attacked our Deputy President for the Northern Region. The criminal regime, in its evening, has gone insane. This insanity will have to be met with RESISTANCE,” he added.
According to provisional results released by the Electoral Commission, Museveni has so far garnered 5,148,845 votes from 30,138 of the 50,739 polling stations across Uganda. This represents 75.38 per cent of the valid votes tallied.
Bobi Wine, Museveni’s closest challenger, is trailing with 1,414,619 votes, representing 20.71 per cent of the total ballots counted so far.
Results for Other Presidential Candidates
Mugisha Muntu Oyera of the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) – 38,582 (0.56%),
Nathan Nandala Mafabi of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) – 144,564 (2.12%),
Joseph Elton Mabirizi of the Conservative Party (CP) – 14,196 (0.21%),
Robert Kasibante of the National Peasants Party – 20,626 (0.30%),
Mubarak Munyagwa Sserunga of the Common Man’s Party (CMP) – 19,034 (0.28%),
Frank Bulira Kabinga of the Revolutionary People’s Party (RPP) – 29,713 (0.44%).
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