Uganda's one sided power

It does not matter what they really think. It makes no difference how the people of Uganda vote. Yoweri Museveni will always win. And always has. Museveni has ruled the country with an Iron Fist for no less than five consecutive terms.

How? It is all to do with how much power the Ugandan state allocates to its President. Museveni, as president, has historically been able to directly manipulate the results of elections (in his favour), as he has made it so that he controls Uganda's military, judiciary, and Electoral commission with no opposition standing in his way. Yoweri Museveni's rise to power came as he served in the rebellions that overthrew Ugandan leaders Idi Amin and Milton Obote before he became presiddent of the country in 1986: he has been the ruling president ever since. Recent Election Some of the things that Yoweri Museveni did to prepare for the upcoming elections are more than a bit shady.

First of all, the entire country was disconnected from the internet (a move responded to by anti-Museveni hackers breaching the official website of the Ugandan government), and in many parts of the country accusations were flinged at the leading president that "they blocked the internet to keep the world in the dark" about what actually happened during the election period. In the Capital, Kampala, police arrested no less than 26 people from civil society groups in the accusation that they were using a hotel as an illegal vote-counting centre In the South of Uganda, there were complaints that voters' voting cards were already filled in to vote for Museveni: we can not know if this actually happened, but it is quite likely.

Even with the opposition seemingly so favourable this year for the Ugandans, primarily a 38-year old activist Bobi Wine, the supposed "people's saviour", Yoweri Museveni still won by an absolute landslide.