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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Presidential candidates Wednesday said they were ready to cast their ballots and asked their supporters to go to their various polling stations and vote.<\/p>\n

National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, said his party was prepared despite the confrontations by security agents during the just-concluded campaigns.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are prepared. We have been across the country and we have seen that the people are ready for change. They have shown us support and swam in swamps to meet us even when the security blocked them from listening to us. We were blocked and taken through the villages where they thought we didn\u2019t have support but they got more surprised and now they know the truth and they are scared,\u201d Mr Kyagulanyi said.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI would like to charge Ugandans to use this chance and make Uganda new again… Ugandans are [more] united than ever and this is the time to showcase it. Let us go to the polling stations and cast that protest vote. Vote overwhelmingly and defeat Museveni with a knockout.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemain peaceful because I have always advocated for that even through my music many years ago. After voting, keep a reasonable distance and protect your vote. Use your camera and phone because we need as much evidence as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Polling agents<\/b><\/p>\n

Mr Emmanuel Dombo, the NRM secretariat\u2019s director for communication, said they have deployed 57,984 polling agents to protect their candidate, Mr Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa Kaguta\u2019s vote.<\/p>\n

Mr Museveni is seeking re-election for the sixth time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe candidate has done whatever it takes. He has done the campaigning. He has trained his campaigners and has thoroughly explained the message through almost all media houses and online platforms available in the country. All the deployments have been done for vote protection and now we are waiting for the hour,\u201d Mr Dombo said.<\/p>\n

Stand firm<\/b><\/p>\n

Forum for Democratic Change presidential candidate Patrick Obio Amuriat urged his supporters to stand firm, cast their votes and guard it to ensure that they are not robbed of victory.<\/p>\n

He said all the opposition presidential candidates have witnessed brutality from security forces and that now is the time to stand together.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of our comrades are languishing in prisons. But the message that Museveni wants to pass to Ugandans is that \u2018dare me not\u2019. Fellow Ugandans, casting your vote to elect your leaders is your democratic dispensation. Turning up to the polling station is your democratic duty and so my calling today is [for you] to turn up in large numbers like never before as a way to disapprove the dictator and ensure that we have a new political order in this county,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Transfer of power<\/b><\/p>\n

Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu, the Alliance for National Transformation\u2019s presidential candidate, said for close to six decades, Uganda has never had a peaceful transfer of power and asked the voters to make it possible today.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolitics is at the centre of our day-to-day lives and if politics goes wrong, then everything else gets negatively affected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He warned Museveni and the ruling NRM party members against instilling fear in voters and said all the anomalies created by the electoral commission must be rectified.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe incumbent is doing almost everything to cling onto power. For the last 65 days, we have been moving around the country encouraging people to turn up in large numbers to vote. The regime has been discouraging people from going to vote because they know it is to their advantage when the turnout is low,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson of Independent candidate, Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde\u2019s Renewed Uganda, Mr Arthur Katabalwa, said his candidate\u2019s message reached all Ugandans who will vote him into power.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe campaigns have been chaotic but we are confident that the masses out there have heard what Gen (Tumukunde) had to say and will therefore vote for us,\u201d Mr Katabalwa said.<\/p>\n

Army spokesperson Flavia Byekwaso Wednesday said they have deployed multi-layered security personnel to manage the intelligence, surveillance and on the streets to ensure Thursday\u2019s elections are peaceful.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have beefed up security in 35 districts where we think are hotspots,\u201d she said in an interview.<\/p>\n

EC chairperson Simon Byabakama assured the country that his team was ready for the elections and had already delivered election materials across the country. He said the presence of security agents on polling day will be to ensure that there is no chaos.<\/p>\n

Reporting by Patience Ahimbisibwe, Arthur Wadero, Franklin Draku, Thembo Misiari Kahungu & Derrick Wandera<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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