Former Presidential candidate, Joseph Kabuleta has sworn an affidavit in support of Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine’s legal challenge of last month’s presidential election.
Kabuleta who participated in the same election, tweeted on Monday a copy of his affidavit that was received on Sunday 14th February by the Court.
“This morning I handed in my sworn affidavit in support of Bobi Wine case in the Supreme Court. Now let’s see how this pans out,” Kabuleta tweeted.
The results released by the Electoral Commission gave Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, a candidate of the National Resistance Movement-NRM party, a 58 percent majority victory, against Kyagulanyi’s score of 35 percent in a race that attracted 11 candidates.
However, Bobi Wine petitioned the Supreme Court asking it to quash the results.
Last week, at a Pre-trial hearing, the Supreme Court set March 18th as the date it will deliver judgment.
“What we want from the court is nullification of that election where Museveni was declared. We do not want him to participate in elections in Uganda again because he is an agent of violence,” said Medard Ssegona, the lead lawyer acting on behalf of Wine and his National Unity Platform party (NUP).
“All elections he has participated in have been violent elections. He is a common denominator in the electoral violence of this country. We don’t want him to participate again.”
This is the fourth petition Museveni has faced, with the veteran opposition leader Kizza Besigye challenging his victories in 2001 and 2006 and the former prime minister Amama Mbabazi launching a court challenge in 2016.
