The Supreme Court is on Friday hearing an application by the NUP former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, to file additional affidavits to back up his election petition case.
According to George Musisi one of the legal counsels on Bobi’s case, he says their client seeks to file 145 additional affidavits at the Supreme court.
This additional evidence he says entails audio and videos of the irregularities on the actual voting day, evidence of ballot staffing on the part of the first respondent who is President Museveni, brutal arrests, and offenses that happened before and after the elections.
Musisi says they have already filed 75 affidavits with the court but that doesn’t have a strong bearing on the case and that is why they are seeking to file more evidence.
The 9 justices of the supreme court gave the petitioner a timeline of up to the 14th of Feb to conclude with filling all their evidence and the respondents were given up to the 20th of Feb to respond to the affidavits.
Bobi’s lawyers returned to the Supreme Court on February 15, 2021, with 127 additional affidavits, which were rejected on grounds that they had come after the allocated time to the petitioner.
However, Bobi wine during a presser recently had threatened to withdraw his petition from the supreme court if they rejected his request for more time to file extra affidavits.
He asked the NUP lawyers to make a formal application to the court laying down their demands that the court needed to heed or they withdraw their case.
The court responded yesterday and issued a hearing notice to Bobi’s lawyers and the accused parties.
The supreme court makes a decision today on whether or not to allow the extra 145 affidavits that have been filed.
