Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, fresh from winning a seventh term at age 81, said Sunday that opposition politicians were “terrorists” who had tried to use violence to overturn the results.
Official results showed Museveni winning a landslide with 72 per cent from Thursday’s election, but the poll was criticised by African election observers and rights groups due to the heavy repression of the opposition and an internet blackout.
The whereabouts of opposition leader Bobi Wine, real name Robert Kyagulanyi, who won 25 per cent, were still uncertain after he said on Saturday that he had escaped a police raid on his home and was in hiding.
Police denied the raid and said Wine was still at home, but blocked journalists from approaching the residence.
Wine has not posted on X since Saturday, when he denounced the “blatant theft of the presidential election”.