Uganda polls: Museveni inches closer to victory, Bobi Wine disputes results

Yoweri Museveni.

Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni. PHOTO | AFP

Vote counting entered day two, Saturday, with provisional results from the January 14 polls indicating the race to presidency was narrowing down to a two-horse race between ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and National Unity Platform’s (NUP) Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, with over 69 per cent of the vote in at the National tally centre at Kyambogo, Kampala.

Mr Museveni, 76, leads with 4,340,134 million votes (61.98 per cent) while opposition front-runner and NUP presidential candidate, Bobi Wine has gained but is still trailing at 2,164,347 votes (30.91 per cent), according to the Electoral Commission’s (EC) sixth batch of provisional results.