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Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine won the presidential elections, dismissing as a “total sham” the early results which gave incumbent President Yoweri Museveni a substantial lead.
The 38-year-old former singer and politician said his party polling officers were beaten and driven out in parts of northern and western Uganda, the ballot boxes were opened and stuffed and that some voters had received ballots for legislative elections only.
Seventy-six-year-old Museveni seeks sixth term after nearly four decades in power, and young Wine became his main rival in a country where most knew only one president.
The internet went down for a third day as the vote count continued after Thursday’s poll, with provisional results from 29% of polling stations giving Museveni a 63.9% lead as Wine trailed with 28% .
“I am very confident that we have defeated the dictator from afar. I call on all Ugandans to reject the blackmail. We certainly won the election and we won it by far,” Wine told reporters.
“Everything that is declared is a total sham, we reject it and we dissociate ourselves from it.”
The list of irregularities will be provided
Wine, real name Robert Kyagulanyi, has documented a slew of irregularities in different neighborhoods and promised to provide video evidence once the internet is restored.
He said he would announce a strategy in the coming hours
The chairman of the electoral commission, Judge Simon Mugenyi Byabakama, said he “did not appreciate the assertion that these results that we are reading are rigged”.
“It is up to candidate Kyagulanyi to show how the votes are rigged.”
On Friday morning, the capital Kampala was calm and some businesses remained closed, while soldiers and police patrolled on foot.
Full results are expected on Saturday afternoon.
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