KAMPALA, Uganda—President
Yoweri Museveni
was declared the winner of his sixth consecutive presidential election on Saturday, even though opposition chief
Bobi Wine
alleged the vote was rigged, capping a divisive campaign marred by govt repression, an world wide web shutdown and the country’s worst political violence for a long time.
Uganda’s Electoral Commission claimed that the seventy six-12 months-previous Mr. Museveni, in electrical power because 1986, had received 59% of the vote, even though major challenger Mr. Wine, the 38-12 months-previous musician turned parliamentarian, received 35%. Ugandan stability forces surrounded Mr. Wine’s dwelling Friday, placing him underneath effective household arrest following he claimed the vote had been falsified. Extra than a dozen other senior members of his campaign ended up put underneath household arrest on Saturday.
Talking in a phone interview from his dwelling, Mr. Wine known as the consequence “completely fraudulent” and stated he would share evidence of popular
