Dear MDC leaders,
The trouble with corrupt and incompetent leaders like Obert Gutu, Morgan Tsvangirai, etc. is that they are incapable of even one coherent thought and, to make matters worse, they do not listen.
"The democratic notion of one person one vote was one of the key pillars and rallying points of the armed liberation struggle against racist colonial exploitation and subjugation," writes Obert Gutu.
This is only shows that the idiot is capable of regurgitating what he has heard others say thousands of time. The proof that Gutu is just parroting comes from he has been going all these last 17 years as a MDC leaders. The 2008 elections proved beyond all doubt that Zanu PF's vote rigging; including the recount to convert a 73% Tsvangirai victory to 47% to force the runoff and the use of wanton violence to secure Mugabe's 84% victor; Zanu PF was incapable of delivering the promised one person one vote.
If Comrade Obert Gutu understood and cared about making sure every Zimbabwean enjoyed the basic and fundamental right to a meaningful vote then he and his MDC colleagues should have implemented the raft of democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging future elections without any prompting from SADC leaders.
SADC leaders reminded Tsvangirai and company the need to implement the democratic reforms throughout the five years of the GNU but to no avail. MDC failed to get even one reform implemented is five years of the GNU. NOT EVEN ONE!
SADC leaders, amongst many other people, advised Tsvangirai & Co. not to contest the 2013 elections with no reforms in place. Again Tsvangirai and his team of empty heads had bails of cotton wool in their ears and so could not hear. The contested the 2013 election and expected Zanu PF blatant rigged the vote.
Obert Gutu is wittering about the need for every Zimbabwean being given the opportunity to register and then to vote but has been warning without reforming ZEC first that will never happen. As we can see already, the BVR exercise was deliberately delayed so that it is going to be a rushed job. There is no way anyone, even with the best will in the world can register 5 to 7 million voters in four months, the unreformed ZEC has none of the political good will.
ZEC is NOT going to produce a verifiable voters' roll for next year's elections. It is impossible to guarantee one person one vote without a verifiable voters' roll. MDC must here and now tell the people of Zimbabwe; will the party still contest next year's election without something as basic as a verifiable voters' roll?
MDC contest the 2013 elections with no verifiable voters' roll and those elections were rigged as we all know. Will MDC make the same foolish mistake again and contest the 2018 elections with no verifiable voters' roll!
Your doubting Thomas
Patrick Guramatunhu.
Tsvangirai & co. contested the July 2013 elections even when it was self-evident Zanu PF was rigging the elections because they were after the bait gravy train seats Zanu PF was offering the opposition to entice them to contest the flawed elections. David Coltart admitted as much in his book.
ReplyDelete“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the elections,” explained Senator Coltart.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
He has tried to blame the two MDCs’ failure to form a coalition as the excuse to contesting the July 2013 elections; the main MDC factions have re-joined to form the MDC Alliance this time and yet they will contest next year’s elections with not even one reform in place, no verified voters’ roll, with a mountain of evidence the vote is being rigged already, etc.
As long as Zanu PF is daggling the few gravy train seats in front of the MDC leaders, they will contest the elections regardless how flawed the process gets. These opposition politicians do not care about one person one vote, the common man being denied their basic freedoms and rights, etc. All they care about is winning a seat on the gravy train and if they do so at the cost of the nation sliding into chaos and instability which is now a real possibility if next year’s elections are rigged.
So, the answer is yes, MDC leaders will contest next year’s elections with no verified voters’ roll, etc. They will never ever the question and admit it, of course, even if they were asked the same question a million times a day. Asking them the question, is important in that it helps to highlight that the opposition politicians and now as bad as Zanu PF politicians – they are now slaves to their insatiable greedy for power and wealth!