Uganda Election: Bobi Wine Rejects Results, Declares Himself “President-Elect”
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (popularly known as, Bobi Wine), the National Unity Platform's flagbearer has rejected early results from the January 14 Uganda Presidential Elections.
With 29.4% of votes from Thursday’s ballot counted, Museveni had won 1,852,263 votes, or 63.9%, while opposition candidate Bobi Wine had 821,874 (28.4%).
The 76-year-old President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni of the National Resistance Movement says he is standing for stability, calling Kyagulanyi "a product of the West."
He has pledged to concede if the election remains free and fair.
The 'former' Freedom fighter Museveni, took over office on January 29, 1986 through armed uprising and returned the country to democratic mandate in 1996, winning and commencing his first of five terms.
His ...