{"id":27136,"date":"2021-10-27T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T12:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=27136"},"modified":"2021-10-27T17:08:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T14:08:18","slug":"court-nullifies-museveni-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/27\/court-nullifies-museveni-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Nullifies Museveni Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Buwekula South Constituency Member of Parliament, William Museveni Ndooli has been thrown out of parliament by Mubende High Court, Ug Mirror reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William Museveni is shedding tears after he lost a petition filed by Fred Tumwesigye who had contested on the NRM ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nullification of the election was based on the sufficient evidence of multiple voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Eva Luswata&#8217;s ruling also revealed that Electoral Commission failed to play its role in ensuring a free and fair election, as guided in the Constitution hence the multiple voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also revealed that court found not enough evidence pining Mr William Museveni Ndooli for his involvement in bribing voters and conniving with security personnel to threaten voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">High Court in Mubende therefore ordered for fresh elections and the Electoral Commission to pay Fred Tumwesigye the petition costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is worth noting that; Mubende returning officer Ms Christine Kunuhira on January 15 declared Mr Ndooli as the duly elected MP of Buwekula South Constituency with 8185 votes, in a hotly contested election where Fred Tumwesigye came second 7479 votes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buwekula South Constituency Member of Parliament, William Museveni Ndooli has been thrown out of parliament by Mubende High Court, Ug Mirror reports. William Museveni is shedding tears after he lost a petition filed by Fred Tumwesigye who had contested on the NRM ticket. The nullification of the election was based on the sufficient evidence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":27137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[31,119,7076],"class_list":["post-27136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","tag-featured","tag-uganda-news","tag-william-museveni-ndooli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27142,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27136\/revisions\/27142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}