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“Hold the flag with pride. Uganda belongs to us. We all have equal shares,” Kyagulanyi Sentamu - Bobi Wine said to thunderous chants from the crowd

Opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine, was formally nominated on Wednesday as a candidate in Uganda’s 2026 presidential election, before addressing a sea of supporters who thronged the streets of Nateete to cheer him.

Kyagulanyi, the flagbearer of the National Unity Platform (NUP), told the rally that Uganda’s four decades under President Yoweri Museveni had been marked by repression and economic injustice. 

“For 40 long years, one man and a small group of his relatives and friends have ruled our country at gunpoint,” he said.

“They have looted our nation and turned every institution of government into a tool of oppression. They have reduced the citizens of Uganda into slaves on their own land,” he emphasised as his fans cheered him on.“They have reduced all of us into beggars, and they’ve turned our poverty into a tool of control, and yet, our country is not poor, our country is rich.”