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Friday February 26 2021
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The Supreme Court has advised former presidential candidate, Mr Willy Mayambala to get the services of a lawyer to file an application seeking to inherit the presidential election petition of fellow contender Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine challenging President Museveni’s victory.
This is because, according to court, Section 61 of the Presidential Elections Act demands that the interested presidential candidate can formally file an application not writing a letter, according to the Supreme Court registrar, Ms Harriet Nalukwago Ssali. Reference is made to your of 25th February 2021 whereby you wrote to the Hon Chief Justice for guidance on how to inherit the petition. Section 61 (2) of the Presidential Elections Act provides that on hearing of the Application for withdraw any candidate who might have been a petitioner in the respect of the election to which the petitioner refers may apply to the court to be substituted as a