Opposition politicians in Uganda have asked President Museveni to withdraw the statement he uttered yesterday that he will arrest anyone who announces election results other than the electoral commission.
While at a press conference of closing his campaigns in Busoga sub-region in Jinja Municipality yesterday, Museveni said that he will arrest the Inter-Party Coalition (IPC)/Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President Retired Col. Dr. Kiiza Besigye if he declares his own results for the 2011 elections.
FDC Presient Kiiza Besigye
But opposition politicians today said Museveni was out of line to threaten arrest since anyone can collect results at polling stations and declare them, so long as that person doesn’t claim those results are the official results of the Electoral Commision.
Moses Kabusu and Reagan Okum of the opposition say that they will not wait for the Chairman Electoral Commission Badru Kiggundu to announce the results later while they can collect results from their agents countrywide and have first hand results.
The FDC Vice President Salama Musumba said that the president has started to intimidate the opposition but they will not yield to such threats.
Besigye is competing to unseat President Museveni the third round after unsatisfactorily losing to the latter in two consecutive elections that were not free and fair according to respective Supreme Court rulings, which though upheld the results.