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“Bobi Wine Has Same Aspirations Like Me , I Don’t Know Why He Thinks We Are Enemies” Museveni Wonders

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President Yoweri Museveni has castigated opposition leader Bobi Wine for not understanding his “real enemies.”

The Head of State said that instead of treating him like an enemy, Bobi Wine should be seeking him out for collaboration because they both have similar aspirations of helping the “lumpenproletariat” class of people from the ghetto, whom he claims to represent.

“People like Bobi Wine, their mistake is that instead of understanding the social issues of his substratum and looking for allies…he is fighting his own allies. I am an ally of those (ghetto) children, that is why I started free education for them in 1997,” Museveni said.

“At that time we didn’t even have money, but we started because I knew that the youths don’t have money. I have started other programs such as the Youths and Women funds to help that group of people,” Museveni said in an interview with NPR.

Museveni said the true enemies of Bobi Wine are the Ugandan elite class who have fought hard against providing free education to the poor.

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On the other hand, Museveni noted that some of Bobi Wine’s friends have started abandoning him upon realising that he does not represent their interests.

“His friends are looking for allies, they have abandoned him because they are not against anybody; they are only concerned about their problems,” Museveni said.

“These former street children are confronting him how; they tell him that we were street children, but we survived because there was peace and some us have prospered through singing, boxing, and other skills.”

Once a celebrated pop artist, Bobi Wine veered into parliamentary politics in 2017, and later on ran for the presidency.

In 2022 the president of the biggest opposition party in the country, Bobi Wine said, in one evening drive back home, he was convinced by his friends Nubian Li, Eddy Mutwe and others to enter the world of politics because they felt the interests of the ghetto were not bothering politicians.

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“We figured if the parliament would not come to the ghetto, we should take the ghetto to the parliament,” he said.

Bobi Wine recently confirmed that he will contest for president again in the 2026 elections.

Bobi Wine recently said he is working “day and night” to see the end of President Yoweri Museveni’s rule, even though he argues it is not a personal ambition.

Kyagulanyi, known by his stage name Bobi Wine, told a forum in Bonn in 2022 that Ugandans are tired of a “dictatorship” in their country and want leaders who can serve them.

“Uganda continues to be under a tight military rule of General Yoweri Museveni, who took power when I was only four. I am 40 now,” Bobi Wine said on a panel about creatives from Africa and their role.

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“We don’t want change for the sake of it. We want a situation where leaders are servants of the people.”Mr Kyagulanyi’s political career had seen him turn from a local celebrity known for wooing fans to a politician brutalised by the police.

In the run-up to last year’s elections, he was arrested and freed several times and at one point he was barred from leaving his house.He has claimed that many of his political supporters have been disappeared.

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