By the crack of dawn, the residence of National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, was brimming with leaders and supporters clad in red as they sang and chanted party slogans. Others used the rare chance to take pictures with some of the parliamentary aspirants and other party bigwigs. At 10:15am, Bobi Wine and his wife, Barbara Itungo, alias Barbie, emerged hand in hand. Bobi Wine was clad in a royal blue suit and red tie. Barbie sported a white dress with a red belt.
Spontaneously, the crowd broke into ululations and loud chants. The public address system that had been mounted on one of the vans then blared Bobi Wine’s freedom songs. Bobi then ecstatically saluted before he addressed the crowd briefly, and asked his entourage to get onto the road and head to the party headquarters in Makerere-Kavule, Kampala City. His convoy of more than 50 cars snaked through the Magere-Freedom drive towards the Gayaza-Kampala highway and turned toward Kaleerwe. Traffic momentarily stopped but was redirected by traffic police officers.