KAMPALA, 19 January 2021, TON: Uganda’s government spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo, on Tuesday, accused the United States for trying to overthrow last week’s presidential elections when the security personnel blocked the US ambassador, Natalie E. Brown from reaching out to the opposition leader Bobi WiWine, who has been house arrested since Thursday for casting his ballot in the country’s presidential elections.

The ambassador wanted to check on his health and safety said the mission. Ofwono Opondo told the media that she has been trying to meddle in country’s internal politics, particularly elections to subvert the elections and the will of the people.

The embassy said that the vote was befouled by harassment of opposition candidates, media and activist suppression and a nationwide internet was shutdown.

It said that the unlawful actions and the effective house arrest of a presidential candidate continued a worrying trend on the course of Uganda’s democracy.

The United States and the European Union did not deploy observer missions for the polls over denial of accreditations and failure by Ugandan authorities to implement recommendations by past missions.

While, Wine and his National Unity Platform (NUP) have rejected the results and said they were planning a court challenge.

On Monday security forces prevented the party’s offices in the capital, a move the party said, is complicating their efforts to collect and put together evidence of irregularities committed during the election at his residence, prompting the mission to call his house arrest a “worrying” sign.