Popular dictator Yoweri Museveni is apparently not popular with votes anymore in his country.
The poll conducted by Ugandan market and social research agency Research World International Agency found that more than half of 2000 sampled in 60 districts around the country, want Museveni to leave the presidential race come 2021.
Ironically, the majority of the poll respondents(up to 64%) professed to be members of Museveni’s National Resistance Movement.
If Ugandans had gone to the polls last month, President Yoweri Museveni would score 32 percent of the votes, which is way below the 50 percent plus one vote that a presidential candidate requires to win an election outright
The poll results have a +/-5 margin of error, but even if this were to entirely play in President Museveni’s favor, he would still end up with 37 percent and remain way below the threshold.
This is Mr. Museveni’s lowest ever rating in an opinion poll during his tenure as president.
The opinion poll results further show that newcomer Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, would edge out Opposition doyen Kizza Besigye, although both would come in behind President Museveni. Mr. Kyagulanyi, the Kyadondo East MP, would poll 22 percent of the votes while four-time presidential candidate Dr. Besigye would harvest 13 percent.
The poll results also show that 20 per cent of the eligible voters are still undecided, a chunk big enough to thrust Mr Museveni over the finish line if he sways all of them to his side, or claw him out of the seat of power if they vote against him.