Bobi Wine has reportedly withdrawn election petition against Tubuhaburwa Museveni

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 TheDrone

By Correspondent

Kyadondo East MP Hon Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine has reportedly withdrawn his election petition he filled challenging presidential candidate Tubuhaburwa Museveni’s victory.

He cites Judiciary bias and refusal to receive his evidence. He will take it to the public court. Bobi Wine says in his application to the withdrawal of the petition, that he is bias of the current chief justice Alphonse Owiny Dollo. He has thus applied for withdrawal of the poll petition from the country’s Supreme Court citing “bias” and “frustration”.

Uganda’s Supreme Court last Tuesday rejected Wine’s additional 120 affidavits claiming the documents were filed late after February 14 deadline.

Bobi Wine later addressed his supporters at his party office in Kampala threatening to withdraw the case if such frustrations persist.

“We have been collecting evidence and more is still coming in but the Supreme Court has rejected 250 affidavits we filed February 15 much as hearing of the petition hasn’t started. We want to put the Supreme Court on notice that if this persists, we are not going to be part of that mockery, the next step is to take the matter to the public court,” Hon. Kyagulanyi said on Tuesday.

This is the second blow in less than two weeks. Two weeks ago, Bobi Wine filed a petition to amend the suit. He wanted three of the judges to recuse themselves from the case citing their close ties with President Yoweri Museveni.

Bobi Wine claimed that Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo was President Museveni’s lawyer in 2006 while Justice Mike Chibita was Mr. Museveni’s private secretary on legal affairs, while Justice Ezekiel Muhanguzi is a relative of Security Minister Elly Tumwine, according to local media.

Meanwhile, Bobi Wine released a list of at least 243 people he claims were abducted by the government.

On Twitter, Bobi Wine said his team had hundreds of other names that were still being verified before they could be published. What he planned has already been implemented; he has done so!