Hard questions are being asked about the future of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) the second biggest opposition party after Bobi Wine's National Unity Platform (NUP) after accusations that it received billions of shillings from President Yoweri Museveni ahead of the 2021 elections caused deep splits...
Before the last election the FDC and Besigye refused to make common cause with Bobi Wine the upstart newcomer with only three years in politics but an immense national following...
He is promoting his Justice Minister Norbert Mao of the Democratic Party (DP) as a key candidate in the north to balance loss of support in central Uganda to Bobi Wine and his National Unity Platform (NUP)...
The nature of the event made it obvious that support for Bobi Wine in central Uganda is so strong that Museveni has more or less written it off for 2026...
Neither the veteran oppositionist Kizza Besigye who stood against Museveni four times nor Bobi Wine who leads Uganda's opposition has said anything on the subject...
According to a tweet by NUP leader Bobi Wine on 21 January Among had paid 6 million shillings (US$1 600) each to members of the Parliamentary Commission the chamber's disciplinary body to exclude NUP MP Francis Zaake last year...
He said he was returning the money because Bobi Wine had ordered any party members who had received such payments to do so...
The 2021 elections involved massive security deployments to suppress and kill protestors loyal to pop star turned opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) and revealed the extent to which the regime was prepared to go to curb dissent on the streets...
The 2021 elections involved massive security deployments to suppress and kill protestors loyal to pop star turned opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) and revealed the extent to which the regime was prepared to go to curb dissent on the streets...
The endorsements indicate the President who will be 82 in 2026 is cooling on nominating his son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba 48 to succeed him (AC Vol 63 No 24 Bobi Wine rights campaign sparks more protests)...
Bobi Wine alias Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and the country's biggest opposition party is rattling the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) stepping up pressure on the government to account for oppositionists illegally detained tortured and murdered...
'In Uganda we are demanding to be human beings and to be treated as such to enjoy the rights for which many of our people have been killed ' Bobi Wine said on 17 November 'It is a pity that we can not mourn our people and meet in Uganda to talk about victims of torture by Museveni's regime...
Such arguments have not prevailed not least because Bobi Wine is so clearly more favoured by youth...
The politicisation of the security forces was at its highest so far in Uganda's national election in January when Museveni's popular rival the youthful musician turned political leader Bobi Wine faced comprehensive repression and intimidation...
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No sooner had Muhammad Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana MPs belonging to Bobi Wine's National Unity Platform (NUP) been released on bail on murder charges on 29 September than they were re-arrested...
Bobi Wine said 'When the president recently said that the opposition was behind the killings we thought it was a bad joke...
' Since first challenging the general election results as fraudulent in the supreme court and then dropping the suit Bobi Wine and his party have mostly focused on pushing the government to release scores of its supporters who were arrested before during and after the elections...
At one level critics including Bobi Wine have said that the killings have exposed the hollowness of President Museveni's claims that the entire country enjoys peace and security under his rule...
Museveni recently ordered the Uganda Revenue Authority to release the bulletproof vehicle that was donated to National Unity Party leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine...
Museveni recently ordered the Uganda Revenue Authority to release the bulletproof vehicle that was donated to National Unity Party leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine...
Baganda gapKatumba's role in President Museveni's next cabinet over which extensive negotiations have been taking place was expected to be significant given the need to fill the many Baganda gaps in cabinet ranks after Bobi Wine's strong showing in Buganda during the election and the deposing of many ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) MPs...
The switch of many voters from Museveni to Bobi Wine in the election is regarded there as disloyalty and incipient treason not mere political choice...