The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers acting on behalf of the National Unity Platform (NUP) party residential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine have filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging the 2021 election results.
The petition raises 15 issues of electoral irregularities, 10 issues of electoral offences and makes eight prayers, top of them, is nullifying the 2021 presidential election.
“Your Petitioner is aggrieved by the election and declaration by the 2nd Respondent of the 1st Respondent as President of the Republic of Uganda and states that the 1st Respondent was not validly elected,” the NUP petition reads in part.
The first respondent is Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa Kaguta and the second is The Electoral Commission. The third respondent is the Attorney General.
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PETITION FULL TEXT
Uganda elections petition NUP 2021 by The Independent Magazine on Scribd
Petitions are welcomed because through them justice is made. One most test that Judges go through is being fair and unprejudiced in resolving disputes. The court must look and scrutinize the hearing basing on the entire electoral processes which begun a year before when the EC published the roadmap. All issues that transpired are key factors to the influence of either free dispensation or unleveled political grounds where one just predicts the outcomes. Where adjudication is based on the merely counted votes cast, it leaves a big gap in the road to political freedom, transparency, competency, accountability and justice. If previous Case Law is a benchmark to the 2021 case lodged, everyone has already predicted.
I appeal to the Judges to pass better cases so that the lawyers in the making are given a picture they deserve.