– Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has called for peaceful protests across the country to show their disapproval of the presidential results that extended President Yoweri Museveni’s reign; electoral commission declared Museveni the winner with 60% of the votes
– Besigye urged youth to claim their and country and future through defiance as the election was rigged through intimidation of voters, imprisonment of opponents, sabotage of rallies, late delivery of election materials, delayed opening of election centers, vote falsification, and bribery
Ugandan opposition leader has vowed not to accept the 2016 presidential election results.
Kizza Besigye, who came second after President Yoweri Museveni according to Uganda’s electoral commission results, said he would not stop until he gets justice.
“We set out to claim our rights and our country through defiance, not compliance… The NRM government believes that by isolating me the defiance campaign is dead but it was not a one-man campaign. This was your campaign and you must now lead! Peaceful protest is a human right that is in our constitution,” Kizza Besigye said through a statement issued on Sunday, February 21.
The Forum for Democratic Change leader also urged the youth to join him on Monday, February 22, as he goes to collect the electoral commission’s results in Kampala as he prepares to file appeal against Museveni’s announced victory. The Ugandan constitution gives Kizza Besigye 10 days after the announcement of results to challenge the outcome.
Besigye maintained that the electoral process was marred with irregularities and urged the international community never to accept the outcome giving 71-year-old Museveni, who has been in power since 1986, another five-year term in office.
Some of the alleged rigging techinues used by Museveni’s team, as outlined by Besigye, were: intimidation of voters, imprisonment of opponents, sabotage of rallies, late delivery of election materials, delayed opening of election centers, vote falsification, and bribery.
President Uhuru Kenyatta came under fierce criticism for seemingly rushing to congratulate Museveni despite the outcome being disputed by the opposition and a section of international elections observers.
Some Kenyans on social media distanced themselves from Uhuru’s message saying that he did it on his personal capacity and not on behalf of Kenyans.
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