What is in Bobi Wine’s Nomination Speech

Fellow Ugandans and comrades in the struggle,
I am deeply humbled and profoundly honored to accept your nomination to be the next President of the Republic of Uganda.


Thank you for the trust you have continued to place in me since I first offered myself for the presidential office in 2021. Today, my heart is filled with a deep sense of responsibility to deliver on that trust.
Together, we have been everywhere preaching the message of a New Uganda. And today, with this nomination, we start the final phase in our mission to freedom and true independence.


Since our nation was born in 1962, every change of leadership has been written in blood. The blood and sacrifice of ordinary citizens of Uganda and yet the leaders who promise liberation have always delivered oppression.


For 40 long years, one man and a small group of relatives and friends have ruled our country on gunpoint.
They have looted the 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. They have turned our poverty into a weapon of control.

And yet, Uganda is not poor, Uganda is rich.
Our land is fertile.
Our people are hardworking and enterprising.
We are rich in talent and creativity.


We are resourceful, we’re energetic, we’re young and promising.
Our country is one of the richest countries in terms of natural resources. So our problem is not lack of wealth. Our problem is LACK OF LEADERSHIP. Leadership that serves the people instead of exploiting them. Leadership that seeks to uplift citizens instead of enslaving them.

Sisters and brothers, this is not the first time that we stand before you with a dream of a New Uganda. We made our first attempt five years ago in 2021.
Hundreds of our comrades were illegally arrested and many are still in prison as we speak now. Many were tortured, many were killed while others went missing to the present day. And yet we refuse to give up!

I know some of you are already asking:
Why vote again after what happened in 2021?
Why do we risk it, the teargas, the bullets, the prisons, the torture chambers and even death which is awaiting for us? My answer to you is this:

We risk it all because the alternative is giving up and that’s 10 times worse.

If we give up now; we shall have no moral authority to complain about what happens next.
If we surrender now, that means that the fighting spirit Ritah Nabukenya, of Frank Senteza, of Yasin Kauma and many others has been defeated.
It means they died in vain.
It means betrayal of our comrades who have spent years in prison counting on us who are still ‘free’ to continue fighting for their freedom too.

Therefore, No matter what happens, we must keep moving forward. Even if someone says the chance of winning is only 1% , WE MUST TAKE THE CHANCE and fight!

We have always been telling you about the PROTEST VOTE and today, let me explain it in more detail.
We have voted before, we have won before and we have been rigged before.
But this election is not going to be your usual election.


We are going into this election as a way of protesting against all the injustice that has happened to us for 40years. We are protesting and that that protest begins NOW!
We must use this to election season to rally the people of Uganda to express their anger and their hope in the ballot box! We are going in this election to protest legally, constitutionally and NON VIOLENTLY.
We must mobize the people of Uganda to come out vote in very large numbers; numbers too big to rig.
We must lay different strategies and make different plans to ensure that we, the people of Uganda free ourselves in this season.

To the Ugandans in the diaspora:

You who send more than two billion dollars to Uganda every year, you’re Uganda’s biggest investors.

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