UPC, FDC querry Museveni’s ballot picture
Feb 05, 2011
THE Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) and the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) have petitioned the Constitutional Court seeking to stop the forthcoming general elections, citing violation of the Constitution and electoral laws including placing President Yoweri Museveni at the bottom of the ballot pape
By Hillary Nsambu
THE Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) and the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) have petitioned the Constitutional Court seeking to stop the forthcoming general elections, citing violation of the Constitution and electoral laws including placing President Yoweri Museveni at the bottom of the ballot paper.
Joseph Bbosa, the UPC secretary general and Dan Mugarura, the FDC chief electoral commissioner contend that the forthcoming election would not be free and fair because the EC has failed to address complaints from the opposition.
They allege that the EC’s national voters register has a total number of 13,954,129 voters while the adult population of Uganda, eligible for voting stands at 13,667378.
They say the candidates on the ballot paper are not arranged in alphabetical order.
They are also asking the court to declare that 50,000 voters are on the register without photographs and should be removed from the register.
Bbosa and Mugarura further complain that the massive deployment of armed security personnel throughout the country is being done deliberately to intimidate voters so that they vote for Museveni and the NRM.
The petitioners accuse the EC of failure to sort out complaints raised by the opposition saying this has made the public to lose confidence in it.
An affidavit sworn by Bbosa, asserts that if elections are held without correcting the anomalies, they will not be free and fair.
THE Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) and the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) have petitioned the Constitutional Court seeking to stop the forthcoming general elections, citing violation of the Constitution and electoral laws including placing President Yoweri Museveni at the bottom of the ballot paper.
Joseph Bbosa, the UPC secretary general and Dan Mugarura, the FDC chief electoral commissioner contend that the forthcoming election would not be free and fair because the EC has failed to address complaints from the opposition.
They allege that the EC’s national voters register has a total number of 13,954,129 voters while the adult population of Uganda, eligible for voting stands at 13,667378.
They say the candidates on the ballot paper are not arranged in alphabetical order.
They are also asking the court to declare that 50,000 voters are on the register without photographs and should be removed from the register.
Bbosa and Mugarura further complain that the massive deployment of armed security personnel throughout the country is being done deliberately to intimidate voters so that they vote for Museveni and the NRM.
The petitioners accuse the EC of failure to sort out complaints raised by the opposition saying this has made the public to lose confidence in it.
An affidavit sworn by Bbosa, asserts that if elections are held without correcting the anomalies, they will not be free and fair.