“There is no democracy in Zimbabwe!” shouted the Sahara TV
Journalist, Adeola Fayehun, at Mugabe, in her melodic Igbo accent!
Mugabe was in Nigeria to attend the inauguration of President
Muhammadu Buhari following elections that everyone agreed were free, fair and
credible. Ms Fayehun reminded Mugabe of Zimbabwe’s 35 year history of
intimidation, violent, murders and rigged elections under his rule!
What made Ms Fayehun’s mocking of Mugabe’s poignant is that
she dared say out loud what we all knew but did not dare even whisper in their
privacy of our own homes, for fear the walls have ears! She is the boy who shouted “The Emperor has
no clothes!” in The Naked Emperor fairy.
Didymus Mutasa has dropped a bomb shell by giving details of
how Mugabe had rigged the 2008 and 2013 elections; a detailed account of the
naked Emperor’s shrivelled and sunken in buttocks!
Mutasa told the South African Sunday Independent
newspaper that Tsvangirai defeated Mugabe in the 2008 elections. Zanu PF was
“shocked by the result”, he said and he, as security minister at the time, had
rushed to protect President Robert Mugabe at the State House.
“I was terrified, I had
to go and protect the president from harm as we were frightened Tsvangirai
would do what he said he would do and march to State House. If he had, no
policeman would have stopped him,” said Mutasa.
According to the Sunday Independent, Mutasa
blamed Tsvangirai for fleeing to Botswana in the aftermath of the polls.
“Instead,” Mutasa said, “Tsvangirai went to Botswana.”
Yes going to Botswana was a blunder but that was
not the only blunder Tsvangirai made in those critical days following the March
2008 elections. After three days with only a tiny fraction of the elections
results declared; people like Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke for many people
when expressed his concern at the inordinate time Mugabe and Zanu PF were
taking to announce the election results. Tsvangirai issue a rebuff statement
saying the delay was not important. In the end it took five weeks to announce
the results.
Now it is clear Mugabe had used the five weeks
“cook” the results to the 46% that was announced, short of the 50% plus 1
needed to avoid a run-off. Mugabe had also used the five weeks to come up with
a fool proof plan to ensure he will won the run-off elections and to muster the
mojo to carry out the plan.
Mugabe has often boasted that he has “degrees in
violence” but the wanton violence the nation was subjected to during the 2008
presidential run-off was the worst the world has even seen. Even someone with
degrees in violence need time-off to fortify himself for what he was about to
do.
Didymus Mutasa was not done yet with his
description of the naked Emperor; he gave the SA paper a detailed account of
the Emperor’s manhood, a defrosted shrimp!
“I don’t know how much
cheating there was in elections, but I do know that in 2013 (finance minister)
Patrick Chinamasa cheated to win. He bussed people in (to vote for him.) I
protested to him and to the Zimbabwe Election Commission,” Mutasa continued.
“We will never know how many people voted for
Zanu-PF out of fear. I didn’t know there was fear in those days. I now see it
myself. And there is a lot of fear.”
The people bussed in to vote for Zanu PF
parliamentary candidate, Chinamasa; did not vote for him alone but would have
voted for the party’s presidential candidate, Mugabe, too. There were reports
of people being bussed in to vote up and down the country in the July 2013
election; many people saw the hooded youths bussed in to vote in Harare.
Zanu PF, with the help of the Israeli firm
Nikuv, had inflated the number of people eligible to vote to six million. For a
country with 12 million people it is impossible that 50% of them will be over
18 years of age!
Zanu PF has stubbornly refused to release the
voters roll although the regime is required to do so, at least a month before
the election, by law. The voters roll was the smoking gun in the vote rigging
and no wonder Mugabe refused to this day to release it!
“He is so old!” Ms Fayehun remarked. At the rape
old age of 91 years Mugabe is old and should be the fountain of wisdom; he
should have known he would not get away with rigging elections; he would make a
complete ass of himself striking out naked with his shrivelled and sunken
buttocks!
Rigging elections is a very serious crime, it is treason. If
the people cannot have a meaningful say in the governance of the country
through peaceful meaning, the vote, they may well resort to violence as the
only other way left for them.
Rigging elections are the clear signs of political oppression
and always result economic paralysis. Resorting to violence to end the
political oppression is costly; like all violent changes they are destructive
and the end result may take you from the frying pan into the fire. It is most
desirous therefore that the nation must have free, fair and credible elections
and to ensure the nation is never forced to use violence to bring about change,
punish those who rig elections.
Now that the whole world knows Mugabe rigged the 2013
elections just as he rigged the 2008 and all the other past elections, he must
know that he is illegitimate, he is a naked Emperor; how long can he pretend
that he is clothed?
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