Wine showed Reuters around his compound in the capital Kampala, where several armed men were seen through a fence communicating via radios.

Yeah, Wine, who is challenging incumbent and longtime leader Yoweri Museveni, claims there has been widespread election fraud and said on Friday he was now under siege.

I thought I should inform the world that our lives are in danger.

I should anything happen to us At least we have had the opportunity while still alive to expose everything that is being plotted on our lives.

Ah government spokesperson denied that wine was under house arrest, saying security had been deployed in his neighborhood for his own protection.

Museveni, who has led Uganda for over three decades, took a commanding lead in the election on Friday, but Wine claimed at a news conference on Friday that he had won the vote and had video proof of voting fraud.

His claims have not been independently verified by Reuters.

The United States and European Union did not deploy observers for this election though the African Union and East African Community both did, but neither team has responded to request for comment about possible irregularities.

Thistle EC Shin campaign has been marred by deadly crackdowns by security forces on opposition candidates and their supporters, including the arrest of wine and others on multiple occasions.

Museveni's government had ordered an Internet blackout until further notice ahead of the vote and banned all social media and messaging APS.

Museveni said that was in retaliation for Facebook taking down some pro government accounts.

And on Thursday, the election commission chairman Simon B.

Of a comma, told Ugandans results were arriving at the National Tallying Center despite the blackout and that they were using their own system to transmit results without giving details.

Be a big comma told a news conference that under Ugandan law, the burden of proof now rest with wine to prove the results were rigged.