We Won’t Challenge Museveni’s Victory, We Were Disorganised – Muntu

In a surprising move following Uganda’s contentious 2026 presidential election, Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) candidate Gen. Mugisha Muntu announced he will not petition the courts over President Yoweri Museveni’s victory.

Muntu attributed the decision to a lack of concrete evidence, particularly the absence of Declaration of Results (DR) forms from polling stations. He said this in a video statement shared by Daily Monitor

Muntu explained, “The party’s main weakness was the absence of evidence… ANT was not sufficiently organised to deploy polling agents at every polling station.”

This admission highlights organizational challenges faced by smaller opposition parties in monitoring the electoral process amid reports of irregularities and an internet blackout during voting.

UPDATE: The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) presidential candidate, Gen Mugisha Muntu, has said he will not petition the court over the presidential results, citing a lack of evidence to support a legal challenge. He noted that the party’s main weakness was the absence… pic.twitter.com/Hah7gINivz

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The election, held on January 15, 2026, saw Museveni secure a seventh term with 7,946,772 votes accounting for 71.65% of the total, according to official results from the Electoral Commission

His main challenger, Robert Kyagulanyi of the National Unity Platform, garnered 2,741,238 votes (24.72%), while rejecting the outcome as fraudulent and fleeing into hiding.

Muntu, a retired major general and former army commander under Museveni, finished fourth with 59,276 votes, representing just 0.53% of the total

This marks a slight decline from his 0.65% in the 2021 election, underscoring ANT’s struggle to gain traction against the dominant National Resistance Movement (NRM) and emerging forces like Kyagulanyi’s youth-driven campaign.

Other candidates, including Nandala Mafabi of the Forum for Democratic Change (1.88%), trailed far behind.

Muntu’s refusal to contest the results follows Kyagulanyi’s revelation to the BBC that he too wouldn’t contest the results in court.