Museveni was declared the winner with 5,851,037 votes representing 58.64 per cent against Kyagulanyi’s 3,475,298 votes representing 34.85 per cent as provisional results, which was on January 28 finally updated to 6,042,898 votes for Museveni representing 58.38 per cent and 3,631,437 votes for Kyagulanyi representing 35 per cent of the total valid votes cast. But Kyagulanyi disputed the results, hence petitioning the Supreme court seeking to nullify Museveni’s victory. Kyagulanyi argued that the election process was not free and fair as it was characterized by a number of irregularities like fraud, voter bribery, intimidation, violence that resulted into loss of lives, arrests among others. However, the copy of the said petition was supposed to be served to Museveni to enable him, being jointly sued with the Electoral Commission and the Attorney General, to look at the allegations raised against him and put in a defense before the case can be fixed for hearing.