We can’t help you while you are away, MP Nsibambi tells Bobi Wine

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Outgoing Mawokota South MP Yusuf Nsibambi has implored National Unity Platform party president Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, to come out of ‘hiding’ and help resolve his “misunderstandings” with the government.

“Those of you who can reach the NUP president, please advise him to return. Mr president, we need you here. Efforts to secure the release of those many dub political prisoners are underway,” he said at the Uganda Law Society weekly hybrid press and public engagement with the “radical new bar” in Kampala on Thursday (February 26).
He then implored Kyagulanyi to return home.

“We need you back home. We cannot help resolve your misunderstandings with the government while you are away.”

Kyagulanyi, who has been in “hiding” since January 15, 2026, when Ugandans went to the polls to elect the President and Members of Parliament, came second to President Yoweri Museveni.

Museveni won with 71.65 percent of the vote, close to his highest-ever tally of 74 percent in the country’s first multiparty election since he captured power in 1986 and ushered in two decades of no-party government.

Nsibambi, a newcomer to the National Resistance Movement party, also said he met with the Executive on Wednesday and could confirm that approximately 80 ‘political’ prisoners were expected to be released soon.

“I also urge the NUP president to return home; his presence in the country is greatly needed,” the MP added.

Kyagulanyi recently delivered a video message to the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, claiming that President Museveni and the Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, orchestrated widespread violence and election rigging.

He also alleged that the election was so manipulated that even at the polling station where Museveni voted in Rwakitura, Kiruhura district, he received more votes than the number of registered voters.