Bobi Wine was arrested together with other over 30 people, including Kassiano Wadri, on the last day of Arua Municipality by-elections campaigns last week.

In a statement on Sunday, the 73-year-old president said reports that the "indisciplined Bobi Wine" is gravely ill and can't talk are fake news.

He says he was informed by doctors that the Kyadondo East MP has no head or chest injuries.

Attack on convoy

Museveni says "fake news generators" are concentrating on the damage on one of the president's cars which carries his luggage.

"That is not the most serious problem here," he says, adding that he has the capacity "either alone or in company with his personal security to defend himself".

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"I have done that for the last 48 years. I defended myself against Amin's soldiers on the 22nd of January, 1973, in Mbale, against the Kenyan policeman Patrick Shaw in Nairobi in 1978, against Tabuley near Atiriri in 2003 etc," he wrote in a statement.

Museveni's car was reportedly pelted with stones during the last day of Arua Municipality by-elections last week. In a follow up statement, he accused Bobi Wine and other MPs.

The problem

The president of the East African nation faults politicians of forming and allowing indisciplined groups to form during elections.

He says these groups carry stones, up-root sidewalk pavers, attack defenceless women and children.

What is truth?

His family on Saturday said one of his kidneys was damaged and need a transplant from a foreign country. There is no official medical documentation to support their claim.

People who have visited him, including his lawyers and wife, alleging that he was badly beaten and "we were about to lose him".

The group also had officials from the Human Rights Commission and demanded a private hospital treatment for the legislator.

Human Rights Commission issued a statement saying there were visible signs of torture on MPs Bobi Wine and Francis Zaake.