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Daily Monitor
Thursday January 14 2021
Summary
At 76 -although some opponents say he is older – Mr Museveni says he is fighting fit, occasionally performing pushups before crowds and jogging in his office.
Museveni studied in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the 1960s when the university acted as a kind of revolutionary finishing school for anti-colonialists.
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President Museveni Wednesday said he would accept the results if he lost the January 14, 2021 election. Uganda is not my house. If I lose election I will go to my house and do my own thing if the views of Uganda don t want me to help them with their issues.I go and deal with my personal issues very happily, Mr Museveni teld CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
How Museveni stayed in power for 35 years
January 13, 2021 President Yoweri Museveni
BBC – Yoweri Museveni, who came to power on the back of an armed uprising in 1986, has defied the political laws of gravity which have felled other long-serving leaders in the region.
The 76-year-old’s time at the top has been accompanied by a long period of peace and big developmental changes for which many are grateful. But he has managed to maintain his grip on power through a mixture of encouraging a personality cult, employing patronage, compromising independent institutions and sidelining opponents.
During the last election five years ago when he addressed the issue of him stepping down, he asked: “How can I go out of a banana plantation I have planted that has started bearing fruits?”