Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has announced his eagerness to stand for the presidency against the incumbent Yoweri Museveni in the 2021 polls.
The leader of the now legalized National Unity Platform party has declared that he is set to be officially nominated by the electoral commission on the 3rd of November 2020 on the party ticket.
Kyagulanyi made the announcement this afternoon while celebrating the court victory involving a protracted court battle between the NUP and 2 members of the NURP.
The Electoral Commission-EC has designated the 2nd and 3rd of next months to officially nominate candidates interested in standing for the top seat come 2021.
Bobi Wine said on Sunday shocked the public when he announced that he had collected 33,000 signatures from 109 districts of Uganda to endorse his candidature two days after his offices were raided and his signatures taken in documents.
On Wednesday last week, NUP accused security forces of seizing his nomination forms with seven million signatures endorsing him for the presidency during the raid in which police said it was meant to recover police and military stores.
The Presidential Elections Act requires aspiring candidates to collect 100 signatures from two-thirds of the total number of over 98 districts in the country as a requirement for their nomination.
So far, only 14 aspiring candidates including National Resistance (NRM’s) Yoweri Museveni, Robert Kaygulanyi Ssentamu of the National Unity Platform (NUP) Party, and Rt Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde, an independent, among others successfully presented their signatures last week ahead of the official nomination.
The opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)Flagbearer Patrick Amuriat Oboi is on Wednesday handing over to the electoral commission the required 100 signatures for the presidential nomination ahead of 2021 general polls.
