The counsels representing Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said that they have filed a suit at the Uganda supreme court, challenging President Yoweri Museveni’s victory in the last months.
In the suit, one of Wine’s counsel, Medard Sseggona, said his client wants the election to be nullified over allegations of irregularities in an exercise Museveni declared the cleanest in Uganda’s post-independence history.
The Ugandan opposition leader says he has overwhelming evidence of vote rigging, including ballot box stuffing, voters intimidation and the manipulation of results at individual polling stations.
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The 76-year-old, Museveni, a former rebel leader who has won every election sincei 1996, and has been in power since 1986, won a sixth term in office with 58.6 percent of the vote, while 38-year-old Bobo Wine, came second in the election.
Under the constitution, Wine had 15 days from the day election results were declared by the electoral commission to challenge the outcome. And the Supreme Court must rule on the petition within 45 days.
