Uganda Opposition Candidate Arrested as Museveni Leads Poll
- Besigye seized by police at party's headquarters in capital
- Early count shows incumbent ahead in bid for re-election
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Uganda’s police arrested the main opposition presidential candidate for the second time in two days, as an early vote count showed President Yoweri Museveni ahead in his bid to extend his 30-year rule.
Kizza Besigye was seized after police surrounded the Forum for Democratic Change’s headquarters in the capital, Kampala, as it was trying to organize its own tally of Thursday’s election results, party spokesman Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda said by phone from Wakiso, northwest of the city. Police spokesman Patrick Onyango said Besigye has been charged for allegedly breaching electoral law with his plan to present an independent tally and is being held at a police station in Kampala.