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Uganda's opposition rejects Museveni's re-election as 'fraud'
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/uganda-s-opposition-rejects-museveni-s-re-election-as-fraud-1.5270240
KAMPALA, UGANDA -- A day after Uganda's longtime leader was declared winner of the country's presidential election, the opposition party dismissed the results as "fraud" and called for the release of their leader, Bobi Wine, who has been allegedly under house arrest since polling day.
President Yoweri Museveni won a sixth five-year term, extending his rule to four decades, according to official results.
Uganda's military on Sunday continued to hold top opposition challenger Wine at his home, saying troops were there to protect him. Wine dismissed Museveni's victory as "cooked-up, fraudulent results" while his party urged the government to release him.
Wine said Sunday that he has proof that he actually won the election.
"We were leading Gen. Museveni by a very large margin, so large that he could not recover," said Wine, speaking on his cellphone to international journalists from his home.
"Our polling agents have proof of our victory," said Wine. "We have proof that the military carried out voting fraud but we cannot publish these videos because the internet is cut and because the military is chasing our polling agents."
Wine said his party, the National Unity Platform, has video evidence of the military stuffing ballot boxes, casting ballots for people and chasing voters away from polling stations.
Wine tweeted Sunday that military units are not allowing him and his wife, Barbie, from leaving their house, not even to harvest food from their garden.
"It's now four days since the military surrounded our home and placed my wife and I under house arrest," said Wine's tweet. "We have run out of food supplies and when my wife tried to pick food from the garden yesterday, she was blocked and assaulted by the soldiers staged in our compound."
Wine said that while he and his wife are being held captive at their property, they are concerned about the safety of his party's polling agents and other supporters.
"We are detained at our house, while others have been abducted and are missing. The military is conducting a massive campaign to arrest our agents. Many are on the run."
Wine said he and his supporters are pursuing a legal and peaceful challenge to Museveni.
"What we are doing is moral and right. We are doing this legally and non-violently. So many people are paying the price for standing up for what is moral and what is right for Uganda. Forty-five million Ugandans are yearning for peaceful change, to redefine our country and our democracy."
Wine's opposition party called on all Ugandans "to reject this fraud ... This is a revolution and not an event. A revolution of this nature cannot be stopped by a fraudulent election."
The opposition party, in a statement Sunday, said that its "quest for a free Uganda is on despite the current attack on free speech and association," referring to the days-long shutdown of the internet by the government. The party urged its followers to use every "constitutionally available avenue" to pursue political change.
"As we speak now, our president (Wine) is under illegal detention at his home," opposition lawmaker Mathias Mpuuga, told reporters at a news conference Sunday. Mpuuga spoke at the headquarters of Wine's party in Kampala.
"Perhaps his crime was to defeat Mr. Museveni on the day he has selected as his crowning," he said. Wine "is not allowed to leave or receive visitors at his home," he said.
Wine's party alleged that soldiers had actually broken into his compound and were freely using utilities including power and water.
"We are concerned about the state in which he is," party spokesman Joel Ssenyonyi said of Wine. "Is his house now a barracks?"
He added: "There will be a Uganda after Museveni and there will be an army that serves the interests of the country."
Uganda's electoral commission said that Museveni received 58% of the vote to Wine's 34%, with a voter turnout of 52%.
Although Museveni stays in power, at least nine of his Cabinet ministers, including the vice-president, were defeated in the parliamentary elections, many losing to candidates from Wine's party, local media reported.
In a generational clash watched across the African continent with a booming young population and a host of aging leaders, the 38-year-old singer-turned-lawmaker Wine posed arguably the greatest challenge yet to Museveni, 76, since he came to power in 1986.
Calling himself the "ghetto president," Wine had strong support in Uganda's cities, urban where frustration with unemployment and corruption is high.
Museveni dismissed the claims of vote-rigging.
"I think this may turn out to be the most cheating-free election since 1962," when Uganda won independence from Britain, said Museveni in a national address on Saturday.
The electoral commission deflected questions about how countrywide voting results were transmitted during the internet blackout by saying "we designed our own system."
"We did not receive any orders from above during this election," commission chair Simon Byabakama told reporters, adding his team was "neither intimidated nor threatened."
Tracking the vote was further complicated by the arrests of independent monitors and the denial of accreditation to most members of the U.S. observer mission, leading the U.S. to cancel its monitoring of the vote.
"Uganda's electoral process has been fundamentally flawed," the top U.S. diplomat for Africa, Tibor Nagy, tweeted, warning that "the U.S. response hinges on what the Ugandan government does now."
The U.S. State Department urged "independent, credible, impartial, and thorough investigations" into reports of irregularities. It condemned "the continuing attacks on political candidates" and called for the immediate restoration of the internet and social media.
"We reiterate our intention to pursue action against those responsible for the undermining of democracy and human rights in Uganda," it said.
Some members of Museveni's ruling party, the National Resistance Movement, were injured when security officials tried to stop them from boisterously celebrating the president's win.
Events in Uganda are also being followed by the man named by U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to be his National Security Advisor.
"The news from Uganda is deeply concerning. Bobi Wine, other political figures, and their supporters should not be harmed, and those who perpetrate political violence must be held accountable," tweeted Jake Sullivan on Sunday. "After this flawed election, the world is watching."
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AP journalists Cara Anna in Nairobi, Kenya and Andrew Meldrum in Johannesburg contributed.
Uganda: Yoweri Museveni declared winner amid election fraud allegations
https://www.dw.com/en/uganda-yoweri-museveni-declared-winner-amid-election-fraud-allegations/a-56248765
Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term as president of Uganda while his main challenger, Bobi Wine, has countered with allegations of vote-rigging. Museveni warned people not to "cause chaos."
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 a sixth term in office with 58% of the vote 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% of almost 18 million registered voters.
Do not 'cause chaos'
Museveni warned people in Uganda not to "cause chaos."
"Nobody is going to cause chaos here, because whoever tries to, we will break him, because it's no joke," Museveni told reporters at the national vote-counting center outside of Kampala. "There is nobody who is above us in knowing how to handle guns. There is nobody who is above us in fighting."
Rival alleges fraud
Wine quickly 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.
Britain calls for investigation
Meanwhile, British officials called for an investigation into concerns over the validity of the election.
"Many in Uganda and beyond have expressed concerns about the overall political climate in the run-up to the elections as well as the electoral process. It is important these concerns are raised, investigated and resolved in a peaceful, legal and constitutional manner," Britain's minister for Africa, James Duddridge said.
"We ask that all parties, including the security services, but also all of Uganda's political movements, act with restraint to ensure the peaceful resolution of disputes," he added.
US 'deeply troubled'
The US State Department said Saturday it is "deeply troubled" by reports of election violence and voting irregularities.
"The Ugandan people turned out to vote in multiparty national elections on January 14 despite an environment of intimidation and fear," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement.
"We are deeply troubled by the many credible reports of security force violence during the pre-election period and election irregularities during the polls," she said.
Ortagus called for "independent, credible, impartial and thorough investigations" into the reports of violence and election fraud.
The State Department is "gravely concerned by harassment of and continued threats to civil society," she added.
'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."
The 76-year-old Museveni was allowed to extend his 35-year rule following a change to the constitution.
Wine had galvanized young Ugandans against Museveni. Three-quarters of the country's population is under 30 and many already knew the opposition candidate thanks to his songs about economic and social inequality.
The vote followed the East African country's worst pre-election violence since Museveni first took office.
Wine and other opposition candidates were often beaten or harassed, and more than 50 people were killed when security forces put down riots in November over Wine's arrest.
