Incumbent Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni has been announced as winner of the country’s Presidential election.
The electoral commission of Uganda announced the final results of the election on Saturday, 48 hours after the polls.
Museveni won 5,851,037 votes (58.64%) of the votes to emerge winner of the election. Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) won more than 3 million votes and over 34% of he votes.
It is Museveni’s lowest votes tally in 6 elections and the lowest since he had 59% in 2006 against Kizza Besigye.
The Presidential election was marred with trouble-ridden campaigns with an opposition candidate, Bobi Wine having some of his supporters killed.
Prior to the election, internet was shut down in Uganda while CSOs and NGOs were not allowed to observe.
United States observers were also not granted accreditation.
More than half of the 18m people who registered to vote in Uganda participated in the election.
Bobi Wine has since rejected the results, as he accused Museveni of riggin the election.
Security operatives have since surrounded Bobi Wine’s house, as they failed to allow local and foreign journalists into his premises.
