Museveni Wins Rigged Election by 60%
20 February 2016
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Veteran leader declared winner with 60 percent of votes in election marred by violence and strong evidence of ballot fraud.
Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled Uganda for 30 years, has been re-elected the country’s president in an election overshadowed by arrests of politicians and evidence of rigging.
A week before elections, Museveni had announced that he will not step down until the whole east Africa is merged into one country.-Click here to READ MORE –

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Army trucks terrorise voters during Uganda’s election this week

The country’s election body declared Museveni, 71, the winner on Saturday afternoon with more than 60 percent of the votes cast.
Museveni, a former rebel who seized power in 1986, was widely expected to win a fifth term, which will now extend his power into a fourth decade.MUSEVENI LETTER
His closest rival, Kizza Besigye, 59, obtained about 35 percent of the vote. Shortly before the election result was declared, the country’s security forces put Besigye under house arrest.
Police carried out multiple arrests of opposition activists, including Besigye, during the vote.
House arrest
Police have arrested Besigya four times since the day of election and he is currently detained at his house in the capital Kampala.
Besigye’s third arrest was caught by Al Jazeera cameras as he tried to access a house where ballots were suspected of being altered.
The general elections were marked by protests by opposition supporters against alleged ballot fraud [AP/Ben Curtis]
On Friday police in riot gear set off stun grenades and fired tear gas at Besigye supporters, who responded by hurling rocks and erecting street barricades.
John Kerry, US secretary of state, called Museveni to voice concern over Besigye’s detention, harassment of opposition figures and the shutdown of social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
Police officials said they were at Besigya’s home as a preventive measure to prevent a further escalation of violence and denied detaining him.
Besigye was Museveni’s field doctor during the war which brought him to power, and served as deputy interior minister in his first cabinet.
He broke ranks with Museveni in 1999, saying the president was no longer a democrat.
On Saturday, Besigye rejected the outcome of the polls and reportedly called it a sham. He has called for an independent audit of the results.- AlJazeera

3 Replies to “Museveni Wins Rigged Election by 60%”

  1. WHY HAVING ELECTIONS THEN IF THESE OLD FOOLS WONT ACCEPT FAIR RESULTS………WILL AFRICA CHANGE ?????????

  2. WHY HAVING ELECTIONS THEN IF THESE OLD FOOLS WONT ACCEPT FAIR RESULTS………WILL AFRICA CHANGE ?????????

  3. Free and fair elections???? The Zimbabwean election observers will declare them free and fair….What a sham…..

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