Uganda opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulani, popularly known as Bobi Wine, is alleging that massive ballot stuffing is ongoing across the country, as Ugandans go to the polls to vote for their leaders.
In a post on his social media platforms mid-morning Thursday, January 15, Bobi Wine accused the government of switching off internet on election day, to make it easy to advance electoral malpractise, voter intimidation in favour of President Yoweri Museveni who is seeking his seventh term in office.
“The world needs to know what is happening in Uganda on election day. Internet switched off. Massive ballot stuffing reported everywhere,” Bobi Wine — the National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate — says. “Our leaders, including Deputy President for Western Region, arrested.”
Bobi Wine further claims that some of NUP polling agents and supervisors have been abducted.
“Many of our polling agents and supervisors abducted, and others chased off polling stations,” he adds.
According to Bobi Wine, the widespread failure of Biometric Voter Verification Kits is a deliberate ploy for the Electoral Commission (EC) to order polling officials to revert to manual voting, a system he believes is easy to manipulate and subvert the will of the people.
Bobi Wine is seeking to unseat 81-year-old Museveni, of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), who has led the landlocked country since 1986.
Other president candidates are; Mugisha Muntu Oyera of the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), Nathan Nandala Mafabi of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Joseph Elton Mabirizi of the Conservative Party (CP), Robert Kasibante of the National Peasants Party, Mubarak Munyagwa Sserunga of the Common Man’s Party (CMP), and Frank Bulira Kabinga of the Revolutionary People’s Party (RPP).
