موقع وجه أفريقيا موقع وجه أفريقيا هو موقع مهتم بمتابعة التطورات في القارة الأفريقية
Museveni has won a sixth term as president of Uganda while his main challenger, Bobi Wine, has countered with allegations of vote-rigging.
One of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, Yoweri Museveni, was declared the winner of Uganda’s presidential election by the country’s electoral commission on Saturday.
Museveni, who first took power in 1986, won with 58% of the vote and a sixth term in office while his main competitor, singer-turned-lawmaker Bobi Wine, trailed with 34%.
“The electoral commission declares Yoweri Museveni… elected President of the Republic of Uganda,” said commission chairman Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama.
He said turnout was 57.22% of almost 18 million registered voters.
Rival alleges fraud
Wine rejected the result of Thursday’s vote claiming that there had been widespread fraud.
He told the Reuters news agency that this had been “the most fraudulent election in the history of Uganda.”
The presidential challenger also said Friday that his home in the capital Kampala was under siege from government soldiers.
“I’ve tried to leave my compound and I’m being blocked by the military. They say they have orders not to let me leave,” Wine told Reuters.
The army’s deputy spokesman, Deo Akiiki, told Reuters that the security forces had been placed there for his own protection and were stopping him from leaving his home while assessing threats.
‘Video evidence’
Wine said that he had video footage of electoral fraud which he would upload once his internet connection was returned.
The government shut down the internet the day before the election and has yet to end the blackout.
The United States and the European Union did not deploy observer teams, but the U.S. State Department’s top diplomat for Africa, Tibor Nagy, said in a tweet early on Saturday that the “electoral process has been fundamentally flawed.”
