Overview
- Uganda’s Electoral Commission declared Yoweri Museveni the winner with 71.65% of votes, with Bobi Wine at 24.72%.
- Bobi Wine rejected the results, alleged massive fraud and abductions of his polling agents, and said he escaped a raid and is in hiding.
- Police and the army denied detaining Wine, stating they were controlling access to his residence to prevent gatherings.
- The vote took place under a nationwide internet shutdown and heavy security, with reports of deadly violence and conflicting accounts of killings in Butambala.
- Biometric voter identification failures and late materials forced a switch to manual registers, while African observers and the UN cited intimidation and said the blackout hindered effective observation.