Uganda’s presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine announced Sunday he’d temporarily suspended his campaigns after one of his aides tragically died in unclear circumstances while on the campaign trail. In an incident that also left a number of journalists injured, one of them tragically, Bobi Wine, whom analysts believe is incumbent Yoweri Museveni’s main challenger in the January 2021 general elections, announced Francis Kalibala aka Frank had been killed in an accident involving an Uganda Army official vehicle. H4DF 2382 which blocked us in Busega on our way to Rubaga to get Kasirye Ashraf emergency medical attention. Uganda Police later explained Bobi Wine’s campaigns had turned ‘violent’ leading to a confrontation and these incidents. Frank’s death comes 18 months after Bobi Wine’s driver Yasin Kawuma was shot dead while on the campaign trail with his boss.

Source: Daily Nation December 28, 2020 06:22 UTC