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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former presidential candidate Willy Mayambala has written to the Supreme Court requesting that he takes over the presidential election petition filed by former National Unity Platform presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. The spokesperson of the judiciary Jameson Karemani says that they have received Mayambala’s letter. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The lawyers who are representing Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert in the presidential petition currently at the Supreme Court have rejected any blame for the decision to withdraw the case. Kyagulanyi on February 1, filed a petition in the supreme court challenging the victory of Yoweri Kaguta …

Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo said Kyagulanyi has a right to withdraw his petition at any time but however added that it must done in accordance with the dictates of the same law. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Supreme Court has adjourned the hearing of an application filed by Robert …

Kyagulanyi officially applies to supreme court to withdraw presidential election petition Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The former National Unity Platform-NUP Party presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has formally applied to the Supreme Court asking to withdrawal his presidential election petition. His lawyers, led by Medard Lubega Sseggona filed the application …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has withdrawn the Presidential petition challenging the 2021 Uganda election results, his party’s spokesman Joel Ssenyonyi has told NTV Uganda. “We have respect for the justice system but we have our reservations regarding the way things are being done …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Male Mabirizi VS Alfonse Owiny-Dollo: Will the Chief Justice get out of Kyagulanyi’s presidential election petition? THE LAST WORD I am shocked Ugandan journalists are angry: Museveni’s violence and what it should teach …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In a majority ruling of 8:1, Justices of the Supreme Court have declined to allow an application by former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu to file new evidence to support his petition challenging President Museveni’s victory in last month’s presidential election. In a short ruling …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Chief Justice Alphonse Owinyi-Dollo has said that the Supreme Court which he heads will not be intimidated by anybody while going about its business of determining the presidential election petition. At the beginning of this month, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the former National Unity Platform presidential …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  | The National Unity Platform-NUP president, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has applied to the Supreme Court to give him one more day to file additional affidavits supporting his presidential election petition.  Kyagulanyi, the first runner-up in the January 14th, 2021 general elections ran to the Supreme Court …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the former National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate, has threatened to withdraw his petition from the Supreme Court challenging the victory of his rival and incumbent President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni. Kyagulanyi said he has asked the party lawyers to make a …