Bobi Wine wants biased chief justice, 2 others off his case
February 16, 2021 Bobi Wine addressing the media
National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine has threatened to withdraw his election petition from the Supreme court over alleged bias on the bench.
Speaking to reporters at the NUP headquarters in Kamwokya on Tuesday for the first time since they were besieged on January 14 by the police, Kyagulanyi said the Supreme court has shown an unprecedented level of bias against him and their close relations to the first respondent President Yoweri Museveni whose reelection victory he s challenging.
He said some of the nine justices set to hear his election petition including the chief justice, Alfonse Owinyi-Dollo, Ezekiel Muhanguzi and Mike Chibita can’t be independent jurors because they have in the past worked closely with Museveni.
Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, wants the chief justice to recuse himself from hearing a petition challenging the re-
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