Abstract
In mid-January 1971, President A. Milton Obote left Uganda for Singapore and the Commonwealth Heads of State Conference. During his absence, covert maneuverings for positions of political power multiplied and on 25 January, just after the seventh anniversary of the army mutinies in East Africa, the Mechanized Regiment of the Ugandan military carried out a coup d'etat.1 Thus one day before his scheduled arrival home, Obote, the man who had led his country since independence in 1962 and had embarked on a structural transformation of the state in 1966, joined the growing ranks of Africa's politically dispossessed. The soldiers justified their action with a statement which was read, in Lugbara, over Radio Uganda on the day of the coup. Of the eighteen reasons offered for their intrusion into the political arena, number seven dealt with the electoral process. Specifically, this point emphasized:
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