The Supreme Court has set 18th March 2021 as the date they expect to deliver Judgement in the Election Petition filed by Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine challenging the victory of the incumbent, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
This was revealed on Thursday as the Court sat for the Pre-hearing session of the case in which Bobi Wine seeks to overturn the result of the January 14th Presidential poll.
At the same session on Thursday, Chief Justice Aphonse Owiny Dollo who is leading a panel of nine justices of the Supreme Court adjourned to 24th February 2021 the pre-hearing session of the election petition after Kyagulanyi’s Lawyers led by Medard Lubega Ssegona indicated that they needed more time to put together material and documentary evidence they had discovered important to their case as well as file more affidavits in support of the petition.
Sseggona told court that they suffered a setback after some of their witnesses went missing and another dumped in Masaka.
Dollo also warned against using social media sites to disparage the process of hearing the petition saying those who choose to use the platforms should do so with facts.
“You believe in justice and that is why you came to the Courts of Law. If you choose to go to social media let us give facts; not disparaging. Leave the courts of law to sit down and render justice. That is their mandate today. Those who are old enough should know the alternative to the courts of law,” Owiny Dollo warned.
Early in the week, Bobi Wine suffered a setback after his amendment application to the petition was thrown out by the same court.