UgandaDecides2021: Museveni Sets To Extend His 35 Years Rule

The country’s election commission announced that with 86.7 percent of polling stations reporting results, Museveni had 58.8 per cent of votes, while former popstar Bobi Wine had 34.2 per cent.

Final results are expected by Saturday afternoon.

Wine, 38, meanwhile was on track to see his newly formed National Unity Platform become the main opposition party in Parliament, notably winning eight of nine constituencies in the capital Kampala.

The poll followed one of the most violent campaigns in years, with harassment and arrests of the opposition, attacks on the media and the deaths of at least 54 people.

Thursday’s election took place in apparent calm, but under the oppressive presence of soldiers and riot police and an internet blackout which has now entered its fourth day.