““I don’t get pleasure from the suffering of our people. For 38 years I have lived under ZANU madness. They stole the 2018 election. They have a duty and an obligation to return the country to legitimacy. Ipai Mukomana chinhu chake,” wrote Biti on Twitter.
True, Zanu PF stole the 2018 elections, but that is only half the story. The other half is that by participating in these elections with no reforms in place MDC Alliance made it easy for Zanu PF to rig the elections. MDC Alliance leaders had many golden opportunities, especially during the 2008 to 2013 GNU, to implement the democratic reforms which would have end the Zanu PF rule years ago.
It is rich for the likes of Tendai Biti should now be shedding buckets of crocodile tears for “the suffering of our people” when all he has ever done was sell-out to Zanu PF madness for thirty pieces of silver. Was it not Tendai Biti who was calling Mugabe “unflappable father of the nation, the fountain of wisdom” as recent as July 2012?
It is not the suffering of povo that has Biti salivating like a hyena circling a pride of feeding lions. He is dying to be appointed a Minister again even if Zanu PF remains firmly in control and thus the investors and lenders are not impressed just as happened during the 2008 to 2013 GNU.
Creating a the post of Prime Minister for Chamisa and one or two cabinet minister posts for Tendai Biti and a few other MDC Alliance leaders will do nothing to lift Zimbabwe’s curse of pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. The curse will only be lifted by the country implementing the democratic reforms and holding free, fair and credible elections.
President Mnangagwa and his junta rigged the elections and the regime is, per se, illegitimate. It is wishful thinking on Chamisa and Biti’s part to argue that the mere act of adding MDC Alliance members to the illegitimate Zanu PF regime be enough to make the hybrid legitimate.
One thing we can be certain of is the Zanu PF dominated hybrid will never agree to the implementation of reforms and so Zanu PF will rig the 2023 elections. We will be back in the same fix we are in today!
Even if the nation was to accept this Zanu PF – MDC Alliance regime there is no guarantee the investors and lenders will be so easily fooled.
The right course of action is to force Zanu PF to step down. The junta broke the electoral laws and must not be allowed to get away with it. No one, absolutely no one; even those with liberation war credential, no one; is above the law. This will then allow for the appointment an interim administration tasked to implement the democratic reforms, put the country back on a firm democratic footing. The country will then hold its first free, fair and credible elections.
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