By recalling MDC-Renewal MPs Tsvangirai is proving to be vindictive and stupid!

Tsvangirai is proving to be Zimbabwe's worst political nightmare; his failure to implement even one reform throughout the five years of the GNU was the greatest political gift Mugabe has ever had in his corrupt and tyrannical political life. Now he is give the tyrant yet more political gifts – all the MDC Renewal seats!

If the reforms had been implemented Mugabe would have lost the 2013 elections hands down. But because no reforms were implemented Mugabe was able to use the Police, Army, ZEC, Public Media and all the other State institutions and State resources to pay millions of dollars for the vote-rigging expertise of NIVUK and UK and USA PR companies to spruce up Mugabe’s image. He went on to blatantly rig the July 2013 elections.

SADC, Westerner well-wishers and every thinking Zimbabwean begged, literally, Tsvangirai and his MDC-T friends not to take part in the 2013 elections without reforms he refused to listen. Now the penny has finally dropped, he finally accepted that that there cannot be free, fair and credible elections until ALL the democratic reforms have been implemented.

"We've stated a position, we've a congress resolution that unless we've reforms, we can't participate to legitimise an election and that's the position of the party. We can't participate unless there're reforms," Tsvangirai told reporters at the Bulawayo Press Club last night

MDC-T has failed to state that ALL the democratic reforms agreed in the GPA must be implemented. The party has called for electoral reforms, at times called for ZEC reforms and dismissal of its current chairperson Judge Makarau, at other times called for electoral laws to be aligned with the country’s new constitution, etc. The lack of clarity as to what reforms MDC-T is demanding is itself proof of confusion within the MDC-T. Of course Zanu PF will be exploiting this to once more outmanoeuvre Tsvangirai into taking part in yet another rigged elections.

Make no mistake about it Zanu PF need Tsvangirai’s MDC-T to remain Zimbabwe’s dominant opposition party. Zanu PF has lost all political credibility and public support and so, to stay in power, the party has no choice but to rig elections. Rigging elections raises the problem of legitimacy which Zanu PF has solved by getting MDC-T to participate giving the process some veneer of democratic competition. No doubt nearer the elections Zanu PF will carry out some trivial reforms, make a big song and dance about it, and get Tsvangirai to contest the elections. By the time Tsvangirai realise the elections are not free and fair it would be too late.

There two parliamentary by-elections on 27 March 2015 to fill the parliamentary seats left vacant by the promotion of Joice Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa to VP positions. MDC-T is not contesting in these by-elections. There two more by-elections lined up to fill Zanu PF MPs seats left by Didymus Mutasa and his nephew who were fired from the party and recalled. MDC-T is once again saying it will boycott the by-elections until it demands on the reforms are honoured,

"Please take out the word boycott because we haven't boycotted any election,” explained Tsvangirai to his objection to the use of boycott. “But we're putting conditions that we need elections that are free and fair. We need reforms before elections are conducted, we're only prefacing that we need reforms."

He not only has a knack for making a mountain out of a mole hill but worse still he is the only adult I know who would jet his toy hunter to go hunting in the mole hill!

Tsvangirai is insisting in recalling the 21 MPs and senators who left MDC-T to form the new faction MDC-Renewal. What is mind boggling about this recall is that MDC-T will not contest in the by-elections as it is almost certain that Zanu PF will not have implemented even any token reforms.

Although MDC-Renewal too boycotted the 27 March 2015 by-elections for the same reason - demanding reforms – are almost certain to contest the by-election and try to win their seats back. If they do contest it will confirm that when push comes to shove these MDC-Renewal politicians will abandon the conditions and take part in the elections.

If Zanu PF has a clean sweep of all the by-elections without resorting to vote rigging, it would be the best thing the tyrant could have wished for. The sacking of former VP Mujuru and many of her supporters from government position has left Mugabe weak and so winning the 21 new seats will go long way to settle his jagged nerves. This would be yet another big political favour from “uncle” Tsvangirai!

By taking part in the 2013 elections against all advice not to because it was clear the elections would not be free, fair and credible; all the three MDC factions lost a lot of political credibility.  Their failure to articulate what reforms they now wanted implemented as condition for them to take part in the next elections has left everyone groaning because it is clear Zanu PF will implement trivial reforms and they will taking part in the elections once. But Tsvangirai’s latest move to recall the MDC-Renewal MPs and senators takes the biscuit.

By insisting on recalling MDC-Renewal politicians when he is not going to even try to win back the seats, shows Tsvangirai now has all his political guns trained at his erstwhile former MDC colleagues and not at the Zanu PF dictatorship. He would destroy Tendai Biti and the MDC-Renewal at all cost even when Mugabe is the chief beneficiary. If Tsvangirai goes ahead with the recall, then he would have removed any lingering doubt that he is indeed an exceptionally incompetent politician because the recall makes no sense at all. None!