Uganda's opposition leader Bobi Wine has told the BBC he will not contest the results of Thursday's election in court, citing a lack of confidence in the judiciary and has instead urged his supporters to take to the streets to peacefully protest.
Speaking to the BBC from hiding, he said he would continue to stand up to President Yoweri Museveni despite concerns for his safety.
The judiciary in Uganda is captured and we encourage Ugandans to use any legal means to fight back and protect their democracy, the 43-year-old former pop star said.
Museveni, 81, won the vote by a landslide and has accused the opposition of seeking to overturn the results through violence, calling them terrorists.
He gained 72% of the vote while Wine, his closest challenger, got 25%.
Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, maintains the results are fake and has cited ballot stuffing without providing any details.
During his interview, Wine also hit out at the security forces for not allowing food into his family home where his wife and relatives are effectively under house arrest. He says he fled the house, in a suburb of the capital, Kampala, on Friday night during a raid by the security forces.
We reject those results because they are fake and they don't in any way reflect the voting pattern. They are completely different from the results in the electoral on the polling stations and on the declaration forms, Wine told the BBC, speaking from an undisclosed location.
Following the criticisms voiced by Wine, the Uganda Human Rights Commission stated that technical and procedural challenges observed on polling day did not undermine the overall fairness of the vote.
After losing to Museveni in 2021, Wine challenged the results but later withdrew the petition, citing what he called the court's bias and lack of impartiality. He alleged there was an ongoing silent massacre as political activists were targeted in a crackdown.
In a social media post, he said more than 100 people had been killed in election violence without stating evidence. The police have denied raiding the opposition leader's home, describing their security deployment as protective.
In his victory speech on Sunday, Museveni declared his election win as a testament to the dominance of his party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM). Uganda has not witnessed a peaceful transfer of presidential power since independence.
