Chamisa missed Heroes 'mourning stolen election' - we mourn curse of 'indecisive' Chamisa and missed reforms

It was USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Chris Dell, who said, back in 2004, the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai "was a flawed and indecisive character". Events have proven that the Ambassador was right and, worse still, he could have said the same of all the other MDC leaders. Being flawed and indecisive is in the DNA of MDC leaders alright.

"MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday reneged on his earlier pledge to attend all State functions, and chose to stay away from both the Heroes' Day and Defence Forces Day commemorations in the past two days, saying he was "mourning" alleged theft of his election victory," reported Newsday.

It is not as if MDC was not warned that with no democratic reforms in place, Zanu PF would rig the elections. If MDC was warned once they were warned 100 000 times and 100 000 times again and still they paid no heed.

"MDC has stringent measures to stop Zanu PF rigging the elections!" Chamisa said again and again. Now we know he has lying; Zanu PF stole the elections, as he now readily admits.

Chamisa and his fellow MDC leaders' decision making is so flawed it defies logic and common sense. There is simply no logical explanation why MDC agreed to go into these elections without something as basic as a clean and verified voters' roll particularly when they know that Zanu PF took full advantage of this in 2013 to rig the elections.

We all saw the hooded Zanu PF youths who were bussed from one polling station to the next that year casting multiple voters, for example. But with no voters' roll, it was impossible to prove multiple voting; the voters' roll was the missing smoking gun.

"Tsvangirai made the stupid mistake of going into the 2013 elections with no verified voters' roll!" admitted Chamisa, with the innocence of one who had no say is making that decision, when in fact he had a say. "I will not make the same mistake!"

The demand for a verified voters' roll was one of the MDC "red line" demands many people expected Chamisa and his MDC friends to honour. Sadly that was not to be, they crossed this red line with the same indifference they had shown again and again in the past.

Ever since the 2008 elections, Zanu PF had learned that as long as the party allowed the opposition to win a few of the gravy train seats, Zanu PF will never have to fear MDC leaders boycotting the elections regardless how flawed and illegal the election process got. Senator David Coltart, MDC minister in the GNU, admits that greed got the better of the MDC leaders.

"The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn't now do the obvious – withdraw from the elections," explained Senator Coltart.

"The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility."

It was to be expected that a cunning and ruthless operator like Robert Mugabe would take full advantage of the "flawed and indecisive" MDC leaders. When the tyrant dangled the ministerial limos, generous salaries, $4 million mansion for Tsvangirai and all the other traps of high office MDC leaders all forgot about the reforms for all five years of the GNU. And ever since, MDC leaders have paid lip service to reforms with their beady eyes always fixed on the gravy train bait Zanu PF was dangling.

It is laughable that Chamisa found the courage to boycott Heroes' Day celebration the consequences his not attending was nothing more than a fart in the wind. And yet the same idiot did not have the guts to boycott elections even when ZEC failed to produce a verified voters' roll. The consequences of participating in the flawed elections is that MDC gave the process credibility and now the nation is stuck with this corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF junta for another five years of hell!

So, Chamisa is "mourning" stolen election victory! Meanwhile the people of Zimbabwe must mourn yet another wasted opportunity to implement the reforms and the country holding its first ever free, fair and credible elections. We must mourn the curse of having a corrupt and tyrannical ruling party being help to get away with rigging elections by flawed and indecisive opposition!