JOINING BOBI WINE
In 2017 when the Kyagulanyi political wave first washed over the country –triggering a violent backlash from government – Lule was one of the first youths who picked keen interest.
Even when he flew to Chad in 2018 at the invitation of the US Embassy to work with a team constructing a base for the visiting former US President Jimmy Carter (head of the Jimmy Carter Foundation), he actively kept tabs on Uganda’s politics. He claims nobody invited him and his fellow Kawempe youths to join the struggle.
He laughs at suggestions that the youth are paid by foreigners to support Kyagulanyi. If anything, he says most of the youths are volunteers driven to the movement by their grievances against the ruling establishment. He says he was driven to the opposition by the injustice he suffered in court for two years when he got conned out of $22,000 (about Shs 79 million) he sent home to purchase land in Maganjo. He says the judge and state prosecutor appeared to be on
Bobi Wine amends election petition
February 8, 2021 Robert Kyagulanyi
National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine has amended the election petition challenging the outcome of the just-concluded presidential race.
According to results released by the Electoral Commission, Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, the incumbent and candidate of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, a 58 per cent majority, against Kyagulanyi s score of 35 per cent in a race that attracted 11 candidates. But in the amended petition filed in the Supreme court, Kyagulanyi contends that as an incumbent, Museveni was ineligible to take part in the January 14, presidential election. Kyagulanyi states Museveni was not qualified for election as president while in the office of the Head of State, Head of Government, Commander in Chief and chairperson of the National Security Council.