The Electoral Commission chaired by Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama, has cleared National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential aspirant Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine to be nominated on Wednesday after a scare that he had not met the requirements.
Justice Byabakama has informed NUP that Bobi Wine that he will be nominated on Wednesday at 2pm which impacts their arrangements for having two nomination day rallies in Katwe and Nateete in Kampala. However, Bobi Wine, has described the scare of lacking a 100 signatures from eligible voters in 18 districts as a tactic to avoid nominating the incumbent Yoweri Museveni on the same day.
“As predicted by many Ugandans, the ridiculous claims about us not submitting enough signatures was intended to push our date of nomination. The cowardly regime did not want us to be nominated on the same day as Museveni!
Well, they just gave us our certificate confirming that we have submitted the signatures but pushed our nomination from Tuesday 23rd to Wednesday 24th September at 2:00pm!” Bobi Wine said.
Bobi Wine added: “This is despite the fact that we had written to them booking Tuesday, 10:00am! Pushing it to 2:00pm is clearly intended to frustrate our plans to have two rallies because the first one was meant to begin at midday. Since we know how they normally behave, as soon as they started those stories, we moved ahead of them and booked both Katwe Grounds and Kaala Playground (Nateete) for both dates! Nothing will stop the revolutionary cause!”