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Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine)

Date of Birth: 12 February 1982
Place of Birth: Mpigi District (now Gomba District)


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Museveni hopes black gold will buy off dissent

Unlike Lissu National Unity Platform leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine is still able to command mass campaign rallies and Wine and his party have been allowed to contest the presidential and parliamentary polls...

Unlike Lissu National Unity Platform leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine is still able to command mass campaign rallies and Wine and his party have been allowed to contest the presidential and parliamentary polls...


Museveni looks to an oil boost

The opposition led by Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu – aka Bobi Wine – has promised 10 million new jobs by 2032 revamped healthcare and education access an end to ‘wasteful' government spending and the boosting of food security and the crucial agricultural sector...

Confirmation of the government's anxiety came via President Yoweri Museveni's belated acknowledgement that two Kenyan activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo had been arrested and detained for five weeks after attending a political rally for opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine...

After EU diplomats met Bobi Wine in May to discuss human rights violations and his presidential ambitions the Ugandan government accused the EU of interfering in domestic politics and funding the opposition...


As protests mount, state repression goes regional

A late-night boast in early May by Muhoozi on X – he is also the Chief of Defence Forces – that he was holding opposition leader Bobi Wine's chief of security Edward Ssebufu (aka Eddie Mutwe) in his basement confirmed that the aide who had been abducted on the outskirts of Kampala was being tortured by the army (AC Vol 66 No 12 Muhoozi attacks regime insiders)...

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Muhoozi attacks regime insiders

Museveni's main challenger during the last polls Kyagulanyi Sentamu the popular 43-year-old singer known as Bobi Wine will be running again...


The Muhoozi succession recasts Kampala’s regional policy

He threatened on social media in early January to behead opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine...

The leader of the National Unity Platform Bobi Wine who took 35% of the vote in 2021 has recovered from wounds sustained after being hit by a gas canister fired by security agents in Kampala in August while he was addressing a meeting of NUP supporters...


Will the Buganda kingdom tilt the vote against Museveni?

His opponents argue that under Mayiga the kingdom hasn't been sufficiently supportive of musician-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine the leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and the most potent challenger to President Yoweri Museveni (AC Vol 65 No 11 How family and the army dominate Museveni's endgame)...

Buganda is Bobi Wine's political base and most of his and the NUP's votes came from the region; over 90% of the NUP's MPs hail from the kingdom (AC Vol 65 No 5 Rifts threaten Bobi Wine's party)...


How family and the army dominate Museveni's endgame

They prefer musician-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine who is 42 and Museveni's most potent challenger...

Before the 2021 presidential election in which Bobi Wine emerged second after Museveni the military arrested tortured and killed opposition supporters (AC Vol 61 No 24 Museveni falls back on force)...


Parliamentary speaker flounders in corruption saga

Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu 'Bobi Wine' who heads Uganda's leading opposition party the National Unity Platform (NUP) said that Britain's strictures may not put the corrupt officials behind bars but that the politicians who have been sanctioned will have their travel restricted along with their capacity to invest stolen funds...

Now it is time for them to lay in the bed that they have made ' said Wine (AC Vol 65 No 5 Rifts threaten Bobi Wine's party)...


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