Museveni basks in victory

In Summary

Not yet over. Asked to comment on the Supreme Court ruling by the Daily Monitor, President Yoweri Museveni, the NRM chairman, stated:

“The lawyers normally talk of “reasonable men” when referring to what people can believe or otherwise. As the (Daily) Monitor newspaper, notwithstanding your nature, would realise judges are “reasonable men and women” plus, plus. That is how they became judges in the first place.

I am not surprised, therefore, that they found that the general elections held on February 18, 2016, reflected the will of the people of Uganda. In fact, the NRM scored more votes but many of them were suppressed as invalid vote – almost 5 per cent of the total votes cast. We did not bother to complain about this because we had enough votes to decisively win. Why inconvenience Ugandans with unnecessary alterations?

It also shows how institutions of the state have grown and recovered from the problems of the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. I salute the people of Uganda and the state institutions of Uganda. I also salute the National Resistance Movement (NRM) fraternity for their efforts during the whole electoral cycle.”