{"id":8848,"date":"2021-01-15T10:15:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T10:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/africa\/article\/3117930\/ugandan-challenger-bobi-wine-claims-he-won-presidential-election"},"modified":"2021-01-15T10:15:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T10:15:33","slug":"ugandan-challenger-bobi-wine-claims-he-won-presidential-election-by-far-despite-early-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/ugandan-challenger-bobi-wine-claims-he-won-presidential-election-by-far-despite-early-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan challenger Bobi Wine claims he won presidential election \u2018by far\u2019 despite early results"},"content":{"rendered":"Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Friday claimed victory in a presidential election, rejecting early results which gave President Yoweri Museveni a wide lead as a \u201cjoke\u201d.\u201cI am very confident that we defeated the dictator by far. I call upon all Ugandans to reject the blackmail. We have certainly won the election and we\u2019ve won it by far,\u201d he told journalists.The 38-year-old former reggae singer turned politician has been the main rival to Uganda\u2019s veteran leader who has been in power since\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/africa\/article\/3117930\/ugandan-challenger-bobi-wine-claims-he-won-presidential-election\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Friday claimed victory in a presidential election, rejecting early results which gave President Yoweri Museveni a wide lead as a \u201cjoke\u201d.\u201cI am very confident that we defeated the dictator by far. I call upon all Ug&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8872,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8848\/revisions\/8872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}