Various heads of state have started arriving for the swearing in ceremony of President Museveni due tomorrow.
Somali president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed also known as Farmaajo, his Burundian counterpart, Évariste Ndayishimiye and South Sudan’s Salva Kiir arrived in Uganda ahead of President Yoweri Museveni’s inauguration ceremony which will take place tomorrow.
Guinea president Alpha Conde and his Zimbabwean counterpart, Emmerson Mnangagwa also arrived at Entebbe Today evening.
The five presidents were received by Uganda’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Henry Oryem Okello at Entebbe Airport ahead of President Museveni’s swearing-in ceremony for his sixth-elective term of office at Kololo Independence Grounds.
In addition to the two African heads of state already in Uganda, Sudanese vice president, Malik Agar Eyr, South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, Naledi Pandor and the executive secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), João Samuel Caholo, also arrived in Uganda today afternoon to witness the swearing in ceremony.
The heads of state and representatives of other governments are among the more than 4,000 guests expected to attend the event which members of Uganda’s Opposition have shunned following what they described as a sham election.
Museveni was declared winner of the January elections with 58 per cent of the votes cast while his closest contender, musician turned politician, Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine got 35 per cent, according to the Electoral Commission.
