FDC’s Amuriat has said that going to court to appeal the presidential elections is a waste of time.
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party presidential candidate Patrick Oboi Amuriat has said that going to court to appeal the presidential elections is a waste of time.
Amuriat made the remarks in an interview with NBS TV. He said that all evidence in place points to the fact that the EC connived with the government to forge outcomes of the elections.
Amuriat who was the second runner up in the just-concluded January 14th, 2021, presidential elections said that they (FDC) have since declared the results as void.
”The elections were marred with rigging, arbitral arrest, and prosecution of opposition leaders but we will not be challenging them before a court of law because it won’t work,” Amuriat said partly.
He is, however, not the only candidate that has since aimed dig at the recently announced election outcomes, the National Unity Platform party presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine is another.
Ever since January 14th, Kyagulanyi has been imposed under the house.
In his recent interview with journalists, he said he has been denied the freedom to move out of his home Kyagulanyi however, remains optimistic that he was the victor in the 2021 presidential candidate and as a result, he says they are still compiling enough valid evidence to present to both local and international courts of law.
Among others, he said that they have collected most of the declaration forms from various polling stations and these also, to other brutality scenes towards him that were recorded during the campaigns will serve as evidence to help them seek justice.
“We have said it before that we have all options on table including the legal option. We intend to go to local and international courts of law to challenge this election which was filled with irregularities,” Kyagulanyi said.
“There are many reasons why we have rejected this election starting from the violence we went through during campaigns. We have declaration forms from various polling stations, ballot stuffing and arrest of agents, among other pinning evidence, which we shall use in courts of law,” he added.
Meanwhile, the 2021 elections saw the EC declare Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni as Uganda’s new president for a sixth elective term after garnering 5,851,037 votes, which was representing 58.64% of the total ballots that were cast.
NUP’s Kyagulanyi with 34.83 per cent came second while FDC’s Patrick Oboi Amuriat came third scooping 3.24 per cent.
Others including Maj Gen (rtd) Mugisha Muntu of Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) got 0.65 per cent, Nobert Mao of Democratic Party got 0.56 per cent.
While Independents Henry Tumukunde got 0.5 per cent, Joseph Kabuleta (0.44 per cent), John Katumba (0.36 per cent) while Willy Mayambala and Fred Mwesigye got 0.25 per cent and 0.15 per cent, respectively.
