Bobi Wine’s attorneys have filed a legal challenge in Uganda’s Supreme Court on Monday, contesting President Yoweri Museveni’s victory in last month’s election.
They are claiming election fraud.
An attorney for Wine, real name Robert Kyagulanyi, told reporters that “any election Museveni participates in can never be a peaceful election, can never be a free and fair election,” said Medard Sseggona. “We want nullification of the election. We do not want (Museveni) participating in any future election,” Sseggona said outside the Kampala courthouse.
“All elections he has participated in have been violent elections. He is a common denominator in the electoral violence of this country. We don’t want him to participate again.”
My campaign team was brought to the military court for a bail hearing today. The ruling on bail has been deferred by 8 days! Some of them are very sick. Seeing that many ordinary courts have been forthright, Museveni now relies on military courts to try all my comrades. pic.twitter.com/k1z5OxErhF
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) February 1, 2021
'Panda-gari' is back in full force. Political activists and ordinary citizens now dread these vehicles called drones. Countless Ugandans have been abducted and taken to unknown places. Mukasa Kenneth, a comrade is the latest victim. Kidnapped yesterday, no one knows where he is. pic.twitter.com/ABTWnSclZ5
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) January 31, 2021
Wine is also alleging has alleged the military stuffed ballot boxes, cast ballots for people and even chased voters away from polling stations with threats of violence.
“We have come to report the thieves. We know who stole them [votes] … We have collected and we are still collecting evidence. We have brought it to the courts of law,” said Ssegona. “The suspects [respondents] are three – Yoweri Museveni, Electoral Commission of Uganda and attorney general of this republic. We have done the paperwork and we are still collecting evidence. We have gone through a lot. We have been in the hiding because we knew they wanted these documents.”
Museveni won a sixth term with about 59 percent of the vote. He has ruled the country since 1986.
The Supreme Court must now rule on the petition within 45 days.
