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Bobby Wine Drops Legal Case Challenging The Outcome Of Ugandan’s Presidential Election

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Bobby Wine Drops legal challenge of Ugandan Presidential Election

Ugandan opposition leader, Robert Kyagulanyi, more known as Bobi Wine has on Monday made it known he was quitting the pursuance of his legal bid to overturn the results of the Presidential poll that returned incumbent President, Yoweri Museveni, accusing the Ugandan judiciary of favoring the President, Njenje Media News reports.

It would be recalled that 76-year-old Yoweri Museveni had won a sixth term in office on January 14 with 58 per cent of the vote with Wine, a 39-year-old singer-turned-lawmaker, came second with 35 per cent and decried the election as a sham.

He filed a petition in the Supreme Court on February 1 challenging the result, alleging voter intimidation, the abduction of his party officials, and widespread rigging including ballot stuffing.

But Bobby Wine, said he had instructed his lawyers to withdraw the petition, accusing the judges hearing the case of “bias” and a “lack of independence”.

“We are convinced that the Supreme Court has a predetermined mind,” he told reporters on Monday.

“We refuse to be part of that mockery of justice. The people of Uganda will have the final say on their destiny. Having withdrawn our case from the unjust Supreme Court of Uganda we are putting all legal, non-violent options on the table,” he added, without elaboration.

Last week Wine’s lawyers and judges spent days sparring over procedural issues concerning his petition, with the court ruling Friday that much of the evidence his team submitted could not be heard on a technicality.

Wine has accused the top judge hearing the case, Chief Justice Alphonse Owiny-Dollo, of meeting Museveni on three occasions since the petition was filed, and questioned his independence.

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Losing candidates have sought unsuccessfully in the past to overturn Museveni’s wins in court.

One of Africa’s longest-serving rulers, he has won every election since 1996, almost all marred by allegations of irregularities.

He declared the January ballot the cleanest in Uganda’s post-independence history.

But the road to his latest victory was marred by a particularly violent and sustained crackdown on his rivals that drew international condemnation.

In November, at least 54 people were shot dead by security forces loyal to Museveni during protests against one of Wine’s numerous arrests.

The opposition leader was held under effective house arrest from polling day until court-ordered security forces end his detention nearly two weeks later.

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