Ex-presidential candidate challenges Museveni re-election victory in court

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Former Presidential candidate Robert Kasibante has petitioned the Supreme Court, challenging the victory and re-election of President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni.

Museveni, 81, of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) won the elections with 7,946,772, constituting 71.65% of the vote, according to the official results released by the Electoral Commission. The results are close to his highest-ever tally of 74% in the country’s first general elections in 1996.

His chief rival, Robert Kyagulanyi of the National Unity Platform (NUP) party, garnered 2,741,238 (24.72%) in the race. In third place was Nathan Nandala Mafabi of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) who scored 108,301 votes (1.88%), George Mugisha Muntu of Alliance for National Transformation garnered 59,276 votes (0.53%), Frank Bulira of Revolutionary Peoples’ Party secured 45,959 votes (0.41%), Robert Kasibante of National Peasants Party got 33,440 votes (0.3%), Mubarak Munyagwa of Common Man’s Party obtained 31,666 votes (0.29%), while Joseph Mabirizi of the Conservative Party garnered 23,458 votes (0.21%).

In a suit filed on January 17, 2026, at the Supreme Court, Kasibante sued Museveni, the Electoral Commission (EC) and the Attorney General.

Kasibante contends that the whole electoral process was marred by widespread illegalities and non-compliance with the law, which affected the result of the election in a substantial manner.

He purports that in the conduct, organisation, management, and supervision of the whole electoral process of the Presidential election, the EC grossly failed in its constitutional duty of organising free and fair elections.

Kasibante seeks a court declaration that Museveni was not duly elected as President of Uganda.

He also wants the court to declare that all the processes of counting, tallying, and transmitting the presidential election results were lacking in transparency and integrity.