Bobi Wine’s National Unity Platform’s legal team arrives at the Ugandan Supreme Court in Kololo, Kampala, on February 2, 2021 to file a petition challenging President Museveni’s victory. PHOTO | DAILY MONITOR.
Ugandan politician Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, who was the runner-up in last month’s presidential election, Wednesday asked the country’s Supreme Court to annul the victory of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party.
Wine also wants the judges to declare that the Electoral Commission (EC) failed to conduct the January 14 General Election in accordance with the law and, as such, Mr Museveni was not validly elected.
Order Fresh Elections
In a petition filed at the Supreme Court in Kololo, a Kampala suburb, the National Unity Platform (NUP) leader asked the court to order fresh elections because the EC’s non-compliance with the law affected the final outcome of the ballot.
Substantiality in determination of election disputes relates to proof that an impugned action, commission or omission prior to, or on voting day, had real and considerable impact on results, without which advantage a declared victor would not have won.
Bobi Wine’s petition is the fourth such attempt to overturn Mr Museveni’s victories in six elections superintended by the latter’s government since 1996.
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