MDC/CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name, the evidence, the V11 forms, are there for all to see! W Mukori

 "You say CCC is Zanu PF team B in all but name, playing for team A to win and have legitimacy. Where are the V11s?" This was a challenge I would not turn down.

Here are the three cases proving beyond all reasonable doubt that since the 2008 to 2013 GNU MDC/CCC leaders have been running with the povo hare in broad day whilst stealthily hunting with the Zanu PF hounds.

1. a) MDC were elected on the ticket to implement democratic changes to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections and their best chance ever came at the end o   the 2008 elections following the blatant cheating and wanton violence by Zanu PF led by none other than Robert Mugabe's number one henchman Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa. The buffoon has even boasted of it as if it was his “finest hour”. 

Both SADC and AU, for the first time since the country’s independence and repeated rigged elections, refused to endorse Zanu PF victory and deny the regime political legitimacy. Zanu PF was forced to sign the 2008 Global Political Agreement giving birth to the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The primary purpose of the GNU was to implement the democratic reforms to stop  repeat of the blatant cheating and wanton violence. 

Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends failed to implement even one token reform in five years of the GNU. The truth was revealed by Patrick Chinamasa then Zanu PF Minister of Justice and Parliamentary Affairs in the GNU. He revealed it to justify why Zanu PF was not going to postpone the 2013 elections as SADC leaders had demanded at the extraordinary SADC Summit in Maputo Mozambique in June 2013.

1. b) Tendai Biti, David Coltart and one or two other MDC leaders have since admitted the sheer folly of participating in the flawed elections. MDC T faction even made a party resolution “No reforms, no elections!” But greed had the better of them and so they were all back participating in the flawed elections, “so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw,” as Coltart aptly put. 

Chamisa insisted in participating in the 2018 elections giving such idiotic excuses as “MDC A has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging elections!” Of course, he was lying. 

The Constitutional Court Challenge of the presidential election results was idiotic to say the least. Chamisa’s legal team had questioned how it was possible that 12 polling stations in ZEC’s affidavit had two or more results which were identical in every regard; each candidate had polled the same, same spoilt votes and most notable of all Mnangagwa had a commanding lead in all these cases. 

ZEC’s legal team admitted this was indeed truth and there were more than 12 polling stations. “The Court must ask behavioural Scientist!” the lawyer argued. 

The Judge asked Chamisa’s team why did they not ask to have the sealed ballot boxes from these 12 Polling Stations opened, after all this is the reason why the sealed ballot boxes are kept until all legal challenges of elections result are settled. 

The obvious explanation for these identical results is duplicate entries to boost Mnangagwa’s vote count. Entering a V11 result twice or thrice is easy but reproducing an identical Polling Station complete with the sealed ballot boxes, manning staff and voters would be impossible. And so demanding to have the sealed ballot boxes of these duplicate/triplicate entries opened would have settled this matter beyond all doubt.

It was not ZEC or anyone else who did not want the sealed ballot boxes opened - it was Chamisa’s legal team! “We did not want to drink from the poisoned well!” Chamisa’s lawyer argued. It was not Chamisa and his team who would have been drinking from the poisoned well but ZEC and Mnangagwa himself - the failure to produce the duplicate Polling Station would have proven the elections were rigged. Chamisa and company were protecting Zanu PF team A!

1. c) Chamisa and CCC were hell bent on participating in 2023 elections giving the same feeble excuses to justify why they are participating in flawed elections “so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw!” 

It was not only Zanu PF but CCC too were surprised when both SADC and AU election observers condemned the 2023 elections as a farce. Still CCC leaders took up their gravy train seats arguing wherever the party had won - these were “liberated zones”. Liberated zones my foot! Ever since the 2008 election fiasco Zanu PF learned to get political legitimacy the opposition must be enticed to participate in any elections no matter how flawed; giving away a few gravy train seats was a small price to pay. 

Indeed, in 2018 Mnangagwa increased the opposition bait by creating POLAD to reward all the losing presidential candidates. All they had to do was to publicly announce the elections were free, fair and credible and that Mnangagwa was the legitimate president! 

Of course, Margaret Dongo is right the more rational thing for CCC leaders to have done in the face of the damning SADC and AU election reports was to refuse to take up their gravy train seats but, once again, greed had the better of them. 

Of course, MDC/CCC has been Zanu PF team B in but name since 2008, at least; and they have, so far, they have managed to make sure team A win and has political legitimacy. I rest my case.