Uganda has being under the leadership of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for the last 20 years. Museveni won the general elections early this year with a vote of 61% of the total cast votes. According to the constitution of the republic of Uganda, a candidate shall not be declared elected president of that country if the votes are not in favor of the candidate. A candidate has to obtain the highest number of votes casted. The constitution also provides that if a candidate fails to get the expected percentage of votes, a second election should be held within 30 days after the announcement of results.
The same constitution also allows one to hold office for more than one term as it is in most of the democratic countries. A person can be a president more than one time; he or she can vie for the presidential seat after completing the first term of five years. 48hours from the closure of the of the polling that the electoral commission should declare the president through writing and publish it with its seal.The president should assume office within 24hours from which the term of the predecessor expires.
Uganda elections were held early this year on February and Museveni emerged as the winner over his opponent Kizza Besigye Kifefe who is the leader of opposition in that country. Besigye denounced the results of the elections claiming that they are the most fraudulent electoral process ever in Uganda. Kizza Besigye since then has received torture from Yoweri Museveni’s government for not accepting defeat; the opposition leader has not enjoyed any peace since then for months now because he had been detained with his soldiers surrounding his homestead. Besigye has also being arrested several times. Besigye was the personal doctor of Museveni thereafter and he seems to be a threat to Museveni and his government since he knows all the weaknesses of Museveni in terms of health and therefore I would say Besigye is not fit to be YOweri Museveni’s opponent. Since a person knows all your weak points in any way, you are not supposed to be enemies since he or she can bring you down easily.
After the elections were held in Uganda and results were out, Kizza Besigye and Mbabazi who is another presidential contester went to the supreme supreme court to challenge the results of the elections. They claimed that the elections were not free and fair because the citizens had to wait for more than five hours queuing to cast their votes. The elections were delayed which is an extra ordinary thing because I don’t think most democratic countries will accommodate for that. The social media was also closed down and there was no communication going on in Uganda. The citizens and the media were denied their freedom to express their views with other people, that is a fact which only exists in non-democratic countries not a country like Uganda which is democratic.
Just recently,a video surfaced on the social media platforms with pictures of Besyige being sworn in presided over by his party members and his supporters keenly following wearing bright faces which might be symbolizing brighter days for Ugandans i future but we don't know. This happened just a day from when the official inauguration ceremony of his excellency was to beheld.
It is rather unfortunate that Besigye voted and later arrested for trying to access command center in Naguru neighborhood of Kampala. Even though the opposition leaders are always seen to be against and opposing the government, they are also leaders and if the other side of the government is not exercising its rule properly, the opposition side should be given the priority to rule.
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