Uganda Election Day 2021: Voting for Ugandan Presidential Election Day Within Total Internet Shutdown

Voting does not start for Uganda’s presidential and parliamentary elections within the East African nation.

President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in office for 35 years, faces the challenge of music star turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, after a campaign season in which we received violence, intimidation and, from anyway, arrests of opposition candidates and their supporters.

Right now, a total internet shutdown for Uganda based on instructions from the government.

Internet access is only available via VPN or satellite.

Polling stations close at 1300GMT. The results are adjusted to those declared within 48 hours after the close of voting.

Uganda’s presidential elections begin today at 07:00 local time (04:00 GMT), but no results are expected before Saturday.

Robert Kyagulanyi, known by his stage name Bobi Wine, is the 38-year-old pop star and the main rival of 76-year-old Yoweri Museveni, one of the longest-serving African leaders in the fierce elections in Uganda.

Bobi Wine says that im represents di kontri to the younger generation, while President Museveni says that im dey represents stability.

I campaigned for the Ugandan presidential election with a painting of grave violence, and we see dozens of pipo wey dem kill.

Uganda goment don order block on all social media. But social media users use di hashtag [#UgandaDecides2021] discuss di elections in Africa.

Ugandan police say they must send aliases to deploy officers on the rooftops of the capital Kampala on election day, while armored vehicles do not start patrolling the streets.

President Museveni expects a sixth elected term after 35 years in power.

The eve of the elections in Uganda was marked by a heavy deployment of security forces, mostly military, in places that were seen as hotbeds of violence.

The BBC team inside Kampala says that busy streets are empty with a number of businesses not closing and that city dwellers are in fact leaving Japan from the capital Kampala for fear of clashes between supporters of the opposition and security forces.

Ugandan pop star becomes presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, in a live interview with a Kenyan radio station, says the military did not raid my home.

Dis dey comes two days before Ugandans go to vote for the general election after a campaign wey bin get palava wey kill plenti pipo.

On Tuesday night, President Yoweri Museveni, in a national television address, said that Uganda does not block access to social media and messaging apps.

Museveni adds that I will not allow foreigners to determine who is good or who is bad inside Uganda.

Di US announced Wednesday that it said it would withdraw election observers after most applications for accreditation were denied.

Meanwhile, the US ambassador to Uganda says she is disappointed by the rejection of many US election observers.

Ambassador Natalie Brown says they deny more than 75 percent of accreditation requests for the US mission to monitor tomorrow’s presidential and parliamentary vote.

President Yoweri Museveni will compete for his sixth term for office and will face 10 applicants, including Bobi Wine.

Human rights groups do not accuse the security forces of using force to disperse opposition rallies.

However, di goment says na to make sure pipo follow di rules about large groups for the coronavirus pandemic dis.

Uganda, along the borders with Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has one of the highest refugee populations in the world at 1.4 million pipo.

So the pipo is not aware of the political kasala in search of di kontri and they worry about whether we will be happy after voting.

Dem neva makes a peaceful transfer of power to di kontri before and should, in case Museveni loses, it is not clear that he leaves happy.

Dis na how international election scrutiny fell as the European Union did not send observers for this year’s elections on top say Ugandan officials did not listen to observers from last time to make free and fair elections.