Court allows Bobi Wine to withdraw election petition
National Unity Platform leader Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, addresses the Press on February 22, 2021 to announce his withdrawal from the Presidential election petition. PHOTO | MORGAN MBABAZI
The Supreme Court in Uganda has accepted the withdrawal of a presidential petition filed by former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine challenging the re-election of President Yoweri Museveni during the January 14 General Election.
Mr Kyagulanyi, who ran on the ticket of opposition National Unity Platform (NUP), filed the petition on February 1, 2021, on the grounds that the election was neither free nor fair, and was marred with gross irregularities, violence and outright rigging. He asked the court to annul the election and order for a fresh one devoid of irregularities.
