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Mon Jan 25 2021
Seventy-six-year-old Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled Uganda for four decades, won a controversial presidential election; a re-election tainted with allegations of fraud, intimidation, deaths and detention of opposition supporters. With his re-election on January 16, 2021, Museveni, who came to power after winning a guerilla warfare in 1986, shall hold sway in Uganda until 2026, when he would have clocked 81 years of age. It is not clear if the amended Ugandan constitution would stop him from contesting for another five-year term at the expiration of this sixth term.
The presidential election result announced by Uganda’s Electoral Commission said incumbent Museveni got 58.64 per cent of the vote, while his closest challenger and singer, 38-year-old Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, won 34.83 per cent of the vote. The Electoral Commission Chairman, Simon Byakabama said Museveni polled 5.85 million votes, as against Wine’s 3.475 million votes. How
By David Odama
The National Chairperson of State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC), Ayuba Yandai has said that the review of the law establishing the state independent electoral Commission would not only strengthened the nation’s s Democratic system, but remove the ambiguity in the conduct of elections in Nigeria.
The European Centre for Electoral Support ( ECES) has equally begun the training of Chairpersons of the 36 States Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs) on leadership and quality management skills for effective service delivery in Nasarawa state
Wadai argued that the nation’s Democratic system has continued to experience set back because the electorial laws has remain for years without review to pace the way for free flow of the electoral process in Nigeria.
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