Bobi Wine: I'm seriously considering challenging President Museveni in the next presidential election

Musician-turned-MP Bobi Wine has said he will consider challenging Uganda's longest serving President Kaguta Museveni in the next election.

The Kyadondo East MP told CNN that after consulting his team, he is seriously considering challenging Museveni, 74, in the next presidential election in 2021.

"Ugandans can't be free unless they free themselves from military rule, lawless rule -- and all that is being championed by President Kaguta Museveni who has been in power for the last 33 years and not seeming to want to give Ugandans any opportunity a peaceful change.

"...Overwhelming Museveni looks like our own way out...many people have come to me asking me to stand (for president). We have been discussing this issue. I and my team are considering challenging Museveni in the next presidential election."

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Wine, who turns 37 this year, made international headlines when he was brutally arrested and allegedly tortured in the northern town of Arua for allegedly pelting stones to the president's motorcade.

The government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo responded to Wine's claims of Museveni not wanting to give Ugandan a peaceful transition of power.

He said Wine is "being presumptive, perhaps to ride on Museveni's name to gain some international attention".

"It's Museveni who returned Uganda to peace, security, stability, democracy and constitutionalism including the observance of the rule of law, and therefore cannot at the same time be accused of lacking interest in peaceful processes."

The East African country is expected to hold presidential elections in 2021.