Members of Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) continued to table evidence of what they claim are shameful acts of vote rigging and intimidation of their supporters.
NUP candidate Harriet Nakwedde is facing NRM’s Andrew Muwonge and a few others in the race to replace the late Ffefeka Rubogo, the Kayunga LCV Chairman who died a few weeks in office.
Party leaders and mobilizers are complaining of arrests and ballot stuffing.
“We came here at around 6:00 AM and found ballot boxes with pre-ticked papers, we even found one person still pre-ticking others,” claimed an NUP mobilizer at Sseeta Nyinze Polling Station in Kangulumira Subcounty.
Bobi Wine claimed Nakwedde’s agents arrived at Namavundu Church Polling Station at 6:30am, half an hour before the 7am official voting time only to catch someone “red handed, stuffing in these ballot papers.”
“More NUP polling agents being arrested from polling stations in Kayunga. There has been massive ballot stuffing. By 6am, at many polling stations, ballot boxes were full,” further claimed Bobi Wine.
The NUP principal further alleged that vehicles without number plates were transporting pre-ticked ballot papers. He added that his party’s mobilizers had intercepted one the cars “but the occupants brandished a gun and sped off.”
There were also reports of ballot papers with names which do not correspond with candidates’ pictures in Namayumba.
“The voters have been told to go ahead and vote, and use a pen to write NUP! The Electoral Commission clearly part of the conspiracy,” alleged Bobi Wine.
He also complained of the arrest of NUP leaders who had been deployed to guard Nakwedde’s votes in Kayunga. Those arrested and detained had reportedly been netted a night before the polling exercise.
The Electoral Commission (EC) has since denied reports that its officials were behind acts of ballot stuffing at some polling stations.
