“Ignore the fake results” – Bobi Wine breaks silence, dismisses provisional results
Robert Kyagulani, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has urged Ugandans to ignore the election results been announced by the Electoral Commission (EC).
National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulani, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has urged Ugandans to ignore the election results been announced by the Electoral Commission (EC).
Branding the provisional results as “fake”, the pop star-cum-politician alleges that EC Chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama was misleading the country by announcing unverified poll results that suggest President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) is poised to clinch his 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, further claiming 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 within Magere neighborhood in Kasangati Town near Kampala on Thursday, Bobi Wine went silent, with NUP alleging that military officers were deployed to sorround his home.
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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 allowed to come in or go out.”
Bobi Wine says that Museveni’s government is doing all these not because of “strength”, but out of fear for 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, after they abducted our Deputy President, Western Region and attacked our Deputy President, Northern Region. The criminal regime in its evening, has gone insane. This insanity will have to be met with RESISTANCE.”
The provisional results say Museveni has so far ganered 5,148,845 votes, with votes collected from 30,138 out of the 50,739 polling stations across Uganda.
This represents 75.38% of the total valid votes tallied.
Bobi Wine, Museveni’s closest challenger, is trailing with 1,414,619 votes, representing 20.71% of the total ballots counted so far.
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