Bobi Wine [Photo: Twitter]Ugandan pop star turned politician Robert Sentamu Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine on Wednesday, July 23, 2020, launched a new political party, the National Unity Platform (NUP), ahead of the 2021 general election. Read Also: ‘Sensitize to sanitize’ - Bobi Wine uses song to fight coronavirusExplaining why the faction that has characterized the 38-year-old’s struggle in his bid to unseat President Museveni was not registered as a party, Bobi Wine stated that the movement’s attempts were foiled by the government. Our analysis led us to the conclusion that it was both untimely and impractical to form a political party. As expected, we found that this name had been reserved and flagged so that we could not register it,” wrote Bobi Wine. “The people of Kyadondo were easy to convince that Kyagulanyi Ssentamu was the registered version of Bobi Wine in 2017.

Source: Standard Digital July 24, 2020 14:15 UTC