Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate, is leading the Uganda presidential race with 75.38% of the valid votes tallied so far.
According to the Electoral Commission provisional results, Museveni has so far ganered 5,148,845 votes, with votes collected from 30,138 out of the 50,739 polling stations across Uganda.
The results, announced on Friday, January 16 afternoon, show that Museveni’s closest challenger, Robert Kyagulani aka Bobi Wine of the National Unity Platform (NUP), is trailing with 1,414,619 votes, representing 20.71% of the total ballots counted so far.
A total of 21,649,067 Ugandans registered to cast their votes on Thursday, January 15 polls, with Museveni seeking his seventh term, well poised to extend his rule into a fifth decade.
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%), and Frank Bulira Kabinga of the Revolutionary People’s Party (RPP) – 29,713 (0.44%).
Meanwhile, as results keep streaming in at the EC headquarters in Lubowa, Kampala, the NUP Party is now alleging that military officers have sorrounded Bobi Wine’s home in Magere, Wakiso District.
“He’s under military siege. His home was surrounded by police and the army last evening. He’s not able to interact with agents. His home is not a gazetted detention facility. If he has committed any crime, there’s due process. He can be arrested, arraigned in court and dealt with in accordance with the law. But because he has not committed any crime and institutions of the state are unfortunately being dragged into partisan politics on the side of the incumbent, they now must find ways of undermining his ability to do what is within his right as a candidate or citizen of this country,” said NUP National Treasurer Banjamin Katana.
