Museveni still President of Uganda with 58.6% win in 2021 election.

Ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party’s Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will remain the President of the Republic of Uganda until 2026 following a massive win in the 2021 elections with a percentage win of 58.6.

Museveni was announced the winner of the elections beating ten other candidates, a feat that will see him extend his status as president of Uganda to 40 years.

As per the pronouncement made by the Electoral Commission (EC) chairman Simon Byabakama on Saturday at the National Tally Center, Kyambogo credited Museveni with 5,851,037 votes, representing 58.64% of the 9,978,093 valid votes tallied over the period of 48 hours.

“Having obtained the highest number of votes; and votes cast in his favor being more than 50% at the election, EC declares candidate Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni as the president of Uganda through an election held January 14,” EC chairperson Byabakama said as he was making the announcement.

National Unity Platform’s Robert Kyagulanyi came second with a cumulative tally of 3,475,298 votes, which is 34.83 percent of the total votes which means that the incumbent beat his biggest rival by 2,375,739 to the country’s top seat.

Presidency through the January 14 poll remained a mission next to impossible for the other nine candidates lined against Mr Museveni as more polling centres got ‘called’.

Here is how all the eleven candidates performed in the Presidential race.

2021 Presidential election final results released by Electoral Commission, January 16, 2021, accurate as at 3:35pm.

Presidential Candidate	Candidate’s Party	Cumulative vote tally	Percentage (%)
Amuriat Oboi Patrick	Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)	323,536	3.24
Kabuleta Kiiza Joseph	Independent	44,300	0.44
Kalembe Nancy Linda	Independent	37,469	0.38
Katumba John	Independent	35,983	0.36
Kyagulanyi S Robert aka Bobi Wine	National Unity Platform (NUP)	3,475,298	34.83
Nobert Mao	Democratic Party (DP)	55,665	0.56
Mayambala Willy	Independent	14,657	0.15
Mugisha Muntu G	Alliance for National Transformation (ANT)	65,334	0.65
Mwesigye Fred	Independent	24,673	0.25
Tumukunde Henry K	Independent	50,141	0.50
Museveni T Kaguta	National Resistance Movement (NRM)	5,851,037	58.64
Valid votes in		9,978,093
Invalid Votes		381,386	3.68% of votes cast
Spoilt votes		27,592
Number of votes cast		10,359,479	57.22% of registered voters
Total Number of registered voters		18,103,603

Developing story indicates that Robert Kyagulanyi has raised concerns over the elections claiming they were a sham and the results were rigged, something the Electoral Commission has denied and called him out to present his evidence of any vote-rigging in Thursday’s poll.

National Unity Platform (NUP) spokes person Joel Ssenyonyi told the AFP that Kyagulanyi “is under effective house arrest”. However, the government said it was only providing him with security.

“People are angry because their vote has been stolen. They don’t need me or Kyagulanyi to tell them to get angry… Even we can’t control them.” Ssenyonyi was reported saying.