Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander, Frank Mwesigwa has said Kyadondo East parliamentary hopeful, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine risked being disqualified from the race.
Mwesigwa revealed this moments after Bobi had been released from police custody and new venue for his rally agreed on.
“We have agreed on a new venue in Gayaza. Earlier venue violated EC campaign guidelines & he risked being disqualified,” Mwesigwa said.
Wine has called for calm following his release and said the incident was the result of confusion over who was going to use a campaign event venue.
Mr Wine said he was allocated a venue to hold his campaign event in by the electoral commission. He was however subsequently informed that President Museveni would be campaigning for an NRM party candidate at the same venue.
The musician is campaigning in a hotly constested by-election outside the capital Kampala.
President Museveni of the NRM and his long time rival Dr Kizza Besigye (FDC) are also due to hold rallies there today to back their party candidates.
