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The journalist has severally been accused by the Opposition especially NUP supporters of conspiring with the regime to steal Bobi Wine’s victory. By then, internet had been cut off in Uganda although some privileged people were able to access it.
Lutaaya has been constantly blasted and accused by social media NUP gangs of ‘robbing Ugandans of their victory.’
However, Lutaaya decided to come out and explain why he had to delete the results. The journalist wondered how people think that he had results for the entire polling centres.
“In your deepest thoughts, you believe or have been made to believe that one Twitter handle had the results of a whole election? SMH Anyway, you claim to have screenshots of my account with the results of “THE WHOLE ELECTION” Please publish 34,684 tweet screenshots.
If you do not know what that number means, that is the number of polling stations in Uganda. For one to have results of the whole election, they must have DR forms from 34,684 polling stations,” Lutaaya tweeted.
He further said that he only tweeted results of the polling centres he visited. Others were from the NBS correspondents in the field that were sent to him.
“I was tweeting updates from the polling stations I visited, or our reporters sent me. Just a few. I however noticed that some people were being misled, my tweets were being misconstrued to mean results of the whole election,” he further added.
Lutaaya went ahead to say that he mostly visited Opposition strongholds. This is the reason his tweets showed NUP in the winning seat.
The journalist, therefore, deleted these results not to confuse people and wait for the entire results from the EC.
He however said that his explanation doesn’t mean there weren’t irregularities in the election. These were singled out by the election observers.
Therefore this talk about him is a diversion aimed at stopping people from asking the Electoral Commission why these irregularities took place.
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