Uganda Election: Bobi Wine In Nigeria (Throwback)

It's Thursday and AllNews travels back in time to October 2019 when Ugandan musician turned politician, Robert Kyagulanyi, widely known as Bobi Wine visited Nigeria for the first time.

Wine, the pop star, is seeking to unseat Uganda’s longterm ruler, President Yoweri Museveni.

The opposition leader is seen as posing the strongest challenge to Museveni’s bid to win a sixth term in Thursday's election.

Wine has amassed quite a number of fans not just in Uganda, but also in Nigeria and across Africa.

Among top Nigerian personalities seemingly throwing their weight behind Wine are Oby Ezekwesili, a former Minister of Education; Shehu Sani, an erstwhile federal lawmaker and Omoyele Sowore, a one-time Presidential aspirant.

We urge all Africans and non-AFRICANs with implicit and explicit belief in democracy to support our brothers/sisters in Uganda as they work to #WeAreRemovingADictator Remove @KagutaMuseveni in their country! #RevolutionNow #UgandaDecides2021 #BobiwineforPresident2021

— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) January 13, 2021

There is no indication that @KagutaMuseveni is willing to handover power no matter the outcome of the elections;but we must continue to support and encourage @HEBobiwine to lead his country to freedom.Its time for Museveni to go,let there be light in #Uganda #UgandaDecides2021

— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) January 13, 2021

That sordid brutality visited on wife and son of Opposition candidate @HEBobiwine by the Ugandan Police is one of the worst abuse of rights ever.
To think that President @KagutaMuseveni is presiding over it because of his 6th election!
Big shame and grossly condemnable.??#StopIt.

— Oby Ezekwesili (@obyezeks) January 13, 2021

In the year 2019 when he was one of the discussants at the Fela Debates — the annual symposium that kicks off the week-long festivity of Felabration — at the NECA Event Hall in Ikeja, Lagos, where the event usually hold, Wine was full of praise for Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

By the time he finished his presentation on the topic ‘Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense’, the applause reached almost a deafening crescendo.

It didn’t end there, human rights activist, Femi Falana lauded him more.

Wine has always alleged torture and harassment at the hands of forces loyal to President Museveni.

Wine’s visible sin is that he dared to challenge the Ugandan government.

At the Fela Debates 2019, Wine's message was to urge African artistes to follow the footsteps of Fela who used his music to fight for the freedom and justice of the people.

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“I probably would have come to Nigeria as an artiste or an activist for any other reason but to see that we are here to celebrate a man that touched me personally, and I believe touched thousands, if not millions of Africans is a great thing," Wine had said.

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