Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says he is withdrawing a court case challenging presidential election results that handed victory to incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, alleging “bias” by Supreme Court justices hearing the case. Speaking to a news conference in the capital Kampala on Monday, Bobi Wine said that he had decided to withdraw his case,
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Lawyers for Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine filed a challenge in the Supreme Court on Monday against President Yoweri Museveni‘s victory in last month’s election, claiming the poll was rigged. “We want nullification of the election. We do not want (Museveni) participating in any future election,” said Medard Sseggona, one of Wine’s lawyers, at the
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Trouble looms in the East African country of Uganda after opposition leader Bobi Wine claimed victory in presidential elections, following preliminary poll results which revealed the early lead of incumbent President Yoweri Museveni with a wide margin. In a statement issued on Friday, Bobi Wine rejected as a “joke” early results that gave President Museveni
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Uganda’s main opposition presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has reported that he and his campaign team members were arrested in the country’s region of Kalangala on Wednesday, December 30. Tweeting about his recent arrest, Bobi Wine who has had several brushes with the police before now, said the police also fired
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A music producer for Ugandan pop star and presidential candidate Bobi Wine has been wounded in the mouth by a rubber bullet during clashes between security personnel and Wine’s supporters, a spokesman for his party and police said on Tuesday The incident is the latest in escalating violence in the east African country as authorities
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