The Supreme Court is set to deliver its ruling on former presidential candidate Robert Kasibante’s petition to withdraw his case challenging the 2026 presidential election results.
On February 6, 2026, Kasibante petitioned the Supreme Court to withdraw his case, citing prohibitive costs and the complexity of continuing the legal proceedings.
On January 18, 2026, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Justice Simon Byabakama, declared National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate Yoweri Kaguta Museveni the winner of the 2026 presidential election.
According to the official results, Museveni garnered 7,946,772 votes, defeating seven other candidates. National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu came second with 2,741,238 votes. Other contenders included Nathan Nandala Mafabi with 209,039 votes; Gen Gregory Mugisha Muntu with 59,276 votes; Frank Bulira with 45,959 votes; Mubarak Munyagwa with 31,666 votes; while Kasibante himself obtained 33,440 votes.
On January 19, 2026, a day after the declaration of results, Kasibante petitioned the Supreme Court challenging President Museveni’s election.
In his petition, Kasibante sought court orders compelling the president-elect to disclose all election-related documents in his possession, including a list of all polling stations and certified copies of Declaration of Results (DR) forms from every polling station used in the presidential election.
He also sought access to the back-end systems of the Biometric Voter Verification System (BVVS), the Electronic Results Transmission and Dissemination System (ERTDS), and the tallying software used by the Electoral Commission. Additionally, he requested an independent forensic audit of the electronic systems to establish how results were transmitted and compiled.
Kasibante further asked the court to nullify Museveni’s election and order a fresh presidential poll.
The respondents, however, asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the petition, arguing that it was incurably defective, unsupported by evidence capable of affecting the election outcome, and a waste of judicial time.
