The NRM secretary general Justine Kasule Lumumba showed up at the Supreme court in Kololo on Wednesday morning clad in a green Gomesi and ready to be handed the petition filed by the National Unity Platform -NUP challenging the Incumbent’s victory in office.
Lumumba patiently sat for close to an hour in her heat up Gomesi alongside the NRM lawyer Isingoma Esau of KK advocates awaiting the arrival of NUP strongman Robert Kyagulanyi’s legal team to receive a copy of the petition.
The NRM secretariat has received and signed the petition on behalf of the NRM presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa.
Inside the petition, the NUP party presidential candidate has dragged to the supreme court the Museveni and the Electoral Commission for non-compliance of the law seeking an order to conduct fresh elections.
Anthony Wameli the legal counsel for Kyagulanyi made his entrance later and served Lumumba a copy of the petition.
Article 104 of the Constitution allows a presidential candidate up to 15 days after the declaration of results to file a petition in the Supreme Court.
On 16th January, the Electoral Commission- EC declared Yoweri Museveni the winner of the election, and on January 28th, 2021, released the final tally of the results showing that the incumbent 6,042,898 votes representing 58.38 percent while Kyagulanyi got 3,631,437 votes representing 35.08 percent.
