Uganda’s Museveni wins sixth presidential term, rival makes fraud accusatio

Globe and Mail ^ | January 16, 2021 | Reuters

[Loyalist]

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has scored a decisive election victory to win a sixth term, the country’s election commission said on Saturday, but his main rival Bobi Wine denounced the results as fraudulent and urged citizens to reject them.

The 76-year-old Museveni, in power since 1986 and one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, dismissed the allegations of fraud in an evening address to the nation, saying Thursday’s election may turn out to be the “most cheating free” in Uganda’s history.

The Electoral Commission said final counts showed Museveni won 5.85 million votes, or 58.6%, while Wine had 3.48 million votes (34.8%).

The campaign was marked by a deadly crackdown by security forces on Wine, other opposition candidates and their supporters. In the run-up to the vote local civil society groups and foreign governments questioned its credibility and transparency, after scores of requests for accreditation to monitor the election were denied.

The United States and an African election monitoring group complained of election irregularities. Wine, a 38-year-old singer-turned-lawmaker who had rallied young Ugandans behind his call for political change, called the results a “complete fraud”.

“It’s an election that was taken over by the military and the police,” he said in a phone interview from inside his home in the capital, Kampala, which was surrounded by soldiers who he said had forbidden him from leaving.

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In the parliamentary election, where candidates were vying for 529 seats, at least 18 ministers from the ruling party lost their seats, Ugandan media reported. The country’s vice-president, Edward Ssekandi, also lost his race.

With results still coming in, local media reported that 56 candidates from Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) had won their races.

[Loyalist]

In the parliamentary election, where candidates were vying for 529 seats, at least 18 ministers from the ruling party lost their seats, Ugandan media reported. The country’s vice-president, Edward Ssekandi, also lost his race.

With results still coming in, local media reported that 56 candidates from Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) had won their races.

I would suggest that certain parallels could be drawn with recent elections in a Western country, but that might draw repercussions from said country’s security forces.

[plain talk]

[doragsda]

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Ruby Freeman during the vote counting in Uganda?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The 76-year-old Museveni, in power since 1986 and one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, dismissed the allegations of fraud in an evening address to the nation, saying Thursday’s election may turn out to be the “most cheating free” in Uganda’s history.

In the parliamentary election, where candidates were vying for 529 seats, at least 18 ministers from the ruling party lost their seats, Ugandan media reported. The country’s vice-president, Edward Ssekandi, also lost his race.

With results still coming in, local media reported that 56 candidates from Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) had won their races.

Oh, gee, this all sounds so familiar.

PING!

[duckman]

“...Bobi Wine denounced the results as fraudulent and urged citizens to reject them.”

Dominion sure gets around.

[EEGator]

[dfwgator]

“My name is Idi Amin Dada, that’s 2 D’s, 2 A’s and one gun!”

[EEGator]

[Mr. Jeeves]

I give him credit for this quote, which no doubt drives the Left insane:

"African chiefs were the ones waging war on each other and capturing their own people and selling them. If anyone should apologize (for slavery) it should be the African chiefs. We still have those traitors here even today." -- Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda, 1998

[libh8er]

“It’s an election that was taken over by the military and the police,”

So when Democrat thugs blockade and cover the windows of vote counting centers and prevent observers from the opposing party from monitoring in Georgia and other places, maybe we should call the National Guard too. A third world election needs third world measures.

[MtnClimber]

Yoweri Biden won in two countries the same way. It will become the 51st state in the Uganda States of Amerika.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Yup. The slave capitol of the world was the kingdom of Dahomey, now part of Benin. Their kings attacked, captured and enslaved huge numbers of their fellow Africans in the weaker tribes neighboring them. They sold them to Muslim slave traders from the east, and later European slave traders starting with Spain & Portugal who sent them to the Caribbean & Brazil, and then Holland and France and England. The wealth they accumulated was partly spent on Western weapons - mostly guns & cannons - which made it even easier to defeat their neighbors.

You can make a case that the primary guilt over past slavery practices belongs with whoever it was who captured free human beings and turned them into slaves, with the secondary guilt belonging to those who bought the already-enslaved peoples. In that case, the nation of Benin owes trillions, no quadrillions probably, of $$ in reparations world-wide. Last anyone checked, over 40% of Benin lives in poverty, but at least they can start making down payments on their global debt, right?

[BobL]

“African chiefs were the ones waging war on each other and capturing their own people and selling them. If anyone should apologize (for slavery) it should be the African chiefs. We still have those traitors here even today.”

One of the best-kept secrets of slavery. The African interior was extremely dangerous and there was no way that Europeans were going to go there. It was much easier to stay in port and pay locals to round them up.

[Organic Panic]

“The United States and an African election monitoring group complained of election irregularities.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH. The jokes write themselves.

[rxh4n1]

Bobby Wine, good field no-hit shortstop for the Phillies and Expos.

[SmokingJoe]

Uganda's elections were far more honest and cheating free than the Biden elections which was fraudulent through and through. Musevini is a far better president than Biden will ever be. Hurrah to Musevini for first of a banning Twitter and Facebook in the run up to the elections. He needs to ban these evil doers permanently.

Musevini with President Reagan.