This is why Bobi Wine withdrew the election petition 2021
By Correspondent
According to Kyagulanyi, his witnesses are being kidnapped, tortured, harassed, and intimidated by state security operatives at the watch of President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, and Attorney General, the first and third respondents to the presidential elections petition respectively.
He moreover argues that the organs of the state like the Uganda Police Force and National Identification of Registrations of Persons Authority -NIRA, are being utilized by the respondents to analyze and infringe on his privateness and that of his witnesses.
The musician turned politician additionally alleges that the court has utilized the tips governing the Presidential Election Petitions to his disadvantage. He cites the court’s decision rejecting his utility to amending his pleadings.
On February eleventh, 2021, a panel of 9 Supreme Court Justices led by the Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo granted Kyagulanyi permission to hold additional affidavits not later than February 14 2021. But Kyagulanyi, who needed to result in 200 affidavits, failed to meet the deadline citing unusual circumstances.
He acknowledged the unusual circumstances included the incontrovertible fact that his legal professionals have been working cellular law companies on account of insecurity and fear that state operatives may steal the proof like the case was throughout the Amama Mbabazi Presidential Election Petition in 2016
He additionally argued that state operatives seized their political party places of work underneath the command of Museveni and the Attorney General’s brokers, which made it robust for him to file related affidavits and proof in help of his petition on time.
“The Petitioner(Bobi Wine) lost time during the illegal house detention. But this honorable court is more inclined towards the strict timelines, which has disadvantaged the Petitioner to the advantage of the respondents”, reads the utility partly.
In his affidavit supporting the utility, Kyagulanyi’s says the choice to withdraw the Petition has been influenced by the foregoing components and by no means by any corrupt cut price or consideration from the respondents or another particular person.