Although he did not manage to garner 1% of the vote, Pastor Willy Mayambala has written to the Supreme Court asking to inherit the petition challenging the election results.
On Thursday, Mayambala who came last in the poll with 14,657 votes (0.15 percent), wrote to the Supreme Court saying he is interested in inheriting the petition that Bobi Wine, another presidential candidate was withdrawing.
“I write to object to the withdrawal of the presidential petition formerly logged in by Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu against the several defendants as outlined in the petition,” reads part of Eng. Mayambala letter to the Supreme Court.
Uganda’s law, allows a former presidential candidate to be substituted as a petitioner in a withdrawn presidential election petition.
Maymbala adds, “”I as well write to express interest in taking on the presidential petition and seek to inherit the petition from Hon. Kyagulanyi Ssentamu.”
Early this week, Bobi Wine announced that he was withdrawing his petition at the Supreme Court challenging January’s re-election of President Yoweri Museveni. Wine alleged bias in the court toward Museveni, who has ruled Uganda since 1986, and said his side was not being allowed to present evidence of fraud in the vote.
In announcing his decision Monday, Wine said authorities had blocked his attempt to present a case, citing the police lockdown of his party’s offices, and the military denying access to his lawyers and officials of his National Unity Platform party.
He also accused the Supreme Court of rejecting as many as 200 affidavits.
After the election results were declared, Mayambala blamed low voter turnout for his poor performance saying the Electoral Commission should take responsibility.