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'Mnangagwa thinks Wi-Fi means wife,' says Chamisa - unlike you, ED KNOWS no reforms means rig elections

01 Apr 2018 at 07:31hrs | Views
"We have the keys to unlock the economy, we are the young generation, we can work with the international community, we can call (France president Emmanuel) Macron and say can you please help us to grow our economy," said MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa.
 
"Do you think Mnangagwa can do that if Macron asked him about Wi-Fi he will think that Macron is asking him about his wife. This is an old generation, we are going to give them a rest in the next election, we are going to say our elders you did a great job go and rest."
 
Chamisa, you harping on and on about how young you compared ED is putting people off! The people of France will be insulted with your innuendoes that they elected President Emmanuel Macron because he is young. The French people are a lot more mature to know what they want in a good and competent leader and they saw those qualities in President Macron. They would have voted for him if he had been 75 years old, they have elected older leaders than that in the past and will do so in future, because they know age alone does not make a good or bad leader.
 
The way Chamisa is harping on and on about anyone 75 years of age being too old to do anything; does this mean President Chamisa will seek help from the French and any other nation with a leader his age? Zimbabwe will not seek any help from Germany, British and the USA, for example, until these nations replace their 60 plus leaders with the Wi-FI 40s generation!
 
Ironically, Zimbabwe's elections will not be decided on which of the contestants know what a Wi-Fi is but on whether the election process itself is free, fair and credible – something President Mnangagwa is expert in and Chamisa has completely failed to understand. Zanu PF has been rigging elections to stay in power these last 38 years and the three men who have masterminded the vote rigging are former President Mugabe, Professor Jonathan Moyo and the now President Emmerson Mnanagwa.
 
Even if Zimbabweans had failed to figure how to stop Zanu PF rigging elections, SADC leaders spelt it all out in the 2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA) following the rigged 2008 elections. SADC forced Zanu PF to sign the GPA agreeing to the implementation of a raft of democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging elections. The important task of implementing the reforms fell to Morgan Tsvangirai, then MDC leader, and his MDC colleagues of whom Nelson Chamisa was one of the MDC cabinet ministers.
 
MDC failed to implement even one reform in the five years of the GNU. Not even one reform!
 
SADC leaders fought a lost battle to get the MDC leaders to implement the reforms. Robert Mugabe, aged 84 years at the start of the GNU, bribed the MDC leaders to make sure they forgot about the reforms. Nelson Chamisa, aged 30 years and, no doubt, knew more about Wi-Fi than Vic Hayes many considers "father of Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi)", was one of the MDC leaders outwitted by an 84 year old!
 
Zanu PF went on to rig the 2013 elections and stay in power because MDC had not implemented any of the reforms to stop the regime rigging elections. What good was it then to the nation that we had young MDC leaders who knew everything there is to know about Wi-Fi but nothing about the most important task on hand – implementing the reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections?
 
When MDC failed to implement even one reform during the GNU, SADC leaders advised MDC not to take part in the elections without first implementing the reforms.
 
"‘If you go into elections next month, you are going to lose; the elections are done!" SADC leaders had warned Tsvangirai and company in 2013, according to Dr Ibbo Mandaza who was at the Maputo Summit that year.
 
SADC leaders' warning is still valid for this year's elections and the advice should be ringing in MDC leaders' ears like church bells.
 
The American and Canadians have also joined in the call for reforms to be implemented before the elections but MDC leaders like Chamisa still ignore the warning.
 
President Mnangagwa may not know much about Wi-Fi but he certainly knows plenty about vote rigging, after all he has been Zanu PF's pointer man on such matters as vote rigging and use of violence. Ever since taking over from Mugabe, Mnangagwa has carried on with the Zanu PF vote rigging activities as if the November coup that deposed the dictator never happened.
 
It is no exaggeration to say "Zimbabwe's 2018 elections are done", to repeat SADC leaders' 2013 prediction!
 
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic hell-hole because the country was stuck with a corrupt and incompetent regime that rigged elections to stay in power. MDC has had many golden opportunities to implement the democratic reforms and stop Zanu PF rigging elections. Sadly, the party has wasted them all because the leaders took their eyes off the reforms to concentrate of gravy train ministerial limousines, generous salaries and allowances, $4 million mansion for Tsvangirai, etc., etc. and Wi-Fi for Chamisa!

Zimbabwe is not going to dig herself out of this hell by having leaders corrupt and incompetent leaders; so, so incompetent, even with the whole world telling them to focus, they still think Wi-Fi is more important than implementing the reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections.
 
Yes Chamisa, President Mnangagwa may well think that Wi-Fi refers to wife but he will win these elections because he knows that with no reforms in place, he can rig the elections! What good is it to the nation that MDC knows all about Wi-Fi when that is not going to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections again after 38 years of rigged elections!




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