Ugandan Opposition Leader Bobi Wine Forcefully Taken From Home By Army After Disputed Election Against Yoweri Museveni

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine was forcibly taken away in an army helicopter from his home on Friday, his party said, a day after elections marred by reports of violence.

President Yoweri Museveni is seeking to prolong his four-decade rule in an election that saw widespread repression and an internet blackout.

His main opponent, singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine, earlier said he had been under house arrest after police surrounded his compound.

Late Friday, his party, the National Unity Platform (NUP), said in a post on X that an army helicopter had landed in the compound and “forcibly taken him away to an unknown destination”.

It said Wine’s private security guards were “violently assaulted” in the process.

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Museveni was comfortably leading as votes were counted on Friday, with the Electoral Commission saying he was on 73.7 percent to Wine’s 22.7 with close to 81 percent of votes counted.

Final results were due around 1300 GMT on Saturday.

Authorities have imposed an internet blackout during the election.

Wine, 43, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, has emerged as the main challenger to Museveni in recent years. The former singer styles himself the “ghetto president” after the slum areas of Kampala where he grew up.