Author: BBC | Published: 2 hours ago
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. (Photo: Daily Monitor).
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has taken a commanding lead in Thursday’s presidential election – well ahead of his main challenger Bobi Wine, whose party has already questioned the credibility of the results.
Figures so far give Museveni 74% of the vote, with Wine on 23%, based on returns from 81% of polling stations.
Wine’s party said on social media that a helicopter had landed in the grounds of his house in the capital, Kampala, and “forcibly taken him away to an unknown destination”.
The son of the opposition leader said both his parents have been seized by the military.
Difficulty accessing the internet in the country has made it difficult to verify this claim.
