Independent candidate in the hotly contested Kyadondo East by-election Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine has revealed a ploy allegedly hatched by NRM to steal his victory.
Among the four candidates vying for the seat, the self styled ghetto president has emerged the strongest. By crowds at least.
But Bobi Wine on Wednesday evening told the press that his camp has busted a covert plan by the regime to rig his election.
He said that he is only worried about vote rigging because he has already seen the signs.
The musician explained that state agents have been hijacking national identity cards from his supporters and recording the National Identification Numbers (NIN) which they will use to access the data from the EC registers and subsequently using them to vote for NRM candidate.
“My supporters have been telling me about this development,” he said.
Bobi Wine, however, indicated that his camp has also laid a grand strategy to counter this rigging method.Idependent Bobi is contesting against FDC candidate Apollo Kantinti, NRM’ Sitenda Sebalu and Muwada Nkunyingi also an independent candidate.
The polling is due tomorrow Thursday, June 29 as stipulated by the Electoral Commission.
Kyadondo East is considered an opposition stronghold having consistently elected opposition legislators for eleven years.
While campaigning for his candidate President Yoweri Museveni justified the underdevelopment in the area, despite being a stone throw away from the capital city, on the poor choices made by the voters.
“The problem you are not benefiting from the NRM programs is because you send to parliament bad leaders,” he said.
The NRM candidate is perceived as Bobi Wine’s closest opponent.
Speculations is high tomorrow’s exercise will turn violent.
But Bobi Wine appealed to his supporters to stay calm: “be voters but not rioters.”
