{"id":128868,"date":"2026-01-17T12:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/bobi-wine-rejects-poll-outcome-after-fleeing-house-arrest-wife-detained\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:02:54","slug":"bobi-wine-rejects-poll-outcome-after-fleeing-house-arrest-wife-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/bobi-wine-rejects-poll-outcome-after-fleeing-house-arrest-wife-detained\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobi Wine rejects poll outcome after fleeing house arrest, wife detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 17 \u2014 Uganda\u2019s opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has said his wife and children are under house arrest following a night raid by security forces at his residence in Magere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Unity Platform (NUP) leader popularly known as Bobi Wine has vowed a \u201ccomplete rejection\u201d of the presidential election results announced by the Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Saturday, Kyagulanyi said soldiers and police raided his home overnight, switched off electricity, disabled some CCTV cameras, and deployed helicopters over the area.<\/p>\n<p>He said he managed to evade arrest and is currently not at home, while his wife and other family members remain confined inside the residence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night was very difficult at our home in Magere,\u201d Kyagulanyi said, adding that security forces were searching for him \u201ceverywhere\u201d as he tries to stay safe.<\/p>\n<p>He attributed confusion over his whereabouts to a nationwide internet shutdown, saying neighbours feared his family abducted after security forced blocked access to his home.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Widespread malpractice  <\/h2>\n<p>Kyagulanyi reiterated his party\u2019s outright rejection of the results, citing what he described as widespread electoral malpractice.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged ballot stuffing, a \u201cmilitary takeover\u201d of the electoral process, the detention of opposition leaders and polling officials, and the targeting of NUP candidates even in constituencies where, he said, evidence showed they had won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir results have zero backing,\u201d he said, describing the situation as \u201cabsolute madness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also condemned the killing of citizens who he said had attempted to demonstrate peacefully against what he termed electoral \u201cthuggery,\u201d and defended the right of Ugandans to protest in defence of their sovereign right to choose their leaders.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest figures released by the Electoral Commission, President Yoweri Museveni has secured 71.88 percent of the vote, equivalent to about 7.6 million votes, while Kyagulanyi trails with 2.6 million (24.46 percent).<\/p>\n<p>The developments come amid heightened political tensions, restrictions on movement and communications, and growing international scrutiny of Uganda\u2019s electoral process.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 17 \u2014 Uganda\u2019s opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has said his wife and children are under house arrest following a night raid by security forces at his residence in Magere. The National Unity Platform (NUP) leader popularly known as Bobi Wine has vowed a \u201ccomplete rejection\u201d of the presidential election results announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}