The main opposition leader is under house arrest since Friday, February 19, 2016.

Kizza Besigye, the main challenger of incumbent President Yoweri Musevni in the February 18, 2016 presidential election in Uganda, has rejected the election results which BBC reports Ugandans a seeing to be “"the most fraudulent electoral process".

The main opposition candidate Kizza had 35 per cent of the votes cast while incumbent Museveni scored nearly 61 per cent.  BBC reported foreign observers as saying  the poll was conducted in an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.  The European Union Chief observer, Eduard Kukan, while praising the remarkable determination of Ugandans to vote, said,  the governing National Resistance Movement's "domination of the political landscape distorted the fairness of the campaign".

The electoral period has been marked by government’s draconian measures against the opposition candidate Kizza Besigye. He was briefly arrested by the Police a few days to the elections. A day after the poll, he was last Friday put under house arrest. BBC quoted him as saying in a statement that, “"Today I am under house arrest.”

He is further quoted as lamenting that fact that, “My home is sealed off and I am not allowed to leave. Nobody is allowed to access my home. I am also under some kind of electronic blockade. I am unable to access any form of internet service in my house.” Referring to his house arrest, Kizza Besigye said, "Generally, the regime is baring its bloodied fangs and claws for all to see. This has not been an electoral process. This is a creeping military coup."