National Unity Platform presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has said that his entire campaign team has been arrested.
Bobi says his team was arrested as they moved from Mbale to Namayingo.
“Yet again we have been waylaid by the regime police and militarily in a swamp on our way from Mbale to Namayingo and all our new campaign team has been arrested including security, medical and media personnel. As usual, no explanation has been given,” reads a post by Bobi Wine on Facebook.
The post further reads that; “I am sure Mr Byabakama and Electoral Commission Uganda will still be silent about this continued persecution.”
Bobi Wine has been intensifying his campaigns in Eastern Uganda having campaigned and pulled mammoth crowds in districts of Iganga and Namisndwa yesterday.
Uganda heads to the polls on Thursday 14th January 2021 to vote the next president.
The tight race is between NRM’s Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who has been in power for the last 34years and a youthful Kyadondo East legislator and musician, Bobi Wine.
Others in the race FDC’s Patrick Amuriat Oboi, DP’s Nobert Mao, ANT’s Mugisha Muntu, then independents include, 24 year old John Katumba, Rtd Let Gen Henry Tumukunde, Nancy Kalembe, Willy Mayambala, Joseph Kabuleta among others.
