Joel Ssenyonyi claims Don Wanyama wrote fake EU letter warning against Bobi Wine parallel swearing ceremony

National Unity Platform (NUP) spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi has alleged that outgoing senior presidential press secretary and new Vision Group CEO Don Wanyama could have crafted a letter purportedly by the European Union (EU) warning Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine against a parallel swearing-in ceremony.

Bobi Wine lost to incumbent President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni in the January 14 presidential election.

Official Electoral Commission (EC) results indicate that Museveni polled 58 per cent of the just over 10 million votes cast while Bobi Wine managed 35 per cent.

Bobi Wine challenged the results in the Supreme Court, only to withdraw his presidential election petition over alleged bias on the side of judges.

He would then claim he won the election with 54 per cent of the vote, but he is yet to publish all the declaration of results forms from polling stations across the country.

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Ahead of Museveni’s May 12 inauguration for another five-year term, at the end of which he will have ruled Uganda for four decades, a letter initially thought to have been penned by EU head of delegation in Uganda Attilio Pacifici made rounds online.

Government newspaper New Vision, which Wanyama heads, quickly ran a story out of the letter the EU later flagged fake.

This is the basis of Ssenyonyi’s claims that Wanyama wrote the letter.

“But New Vision! You wrote a story based on a fake letter,which has been flagged by EU as fake,” wrote Ssenyonyi.

“I suspect the fake letter was written by the new guy at Vision,with intentions of writing a preposterous story.That’s what happens when a regime sycophant is hired to run a government company.”

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