Opinion / Columnist
So Mnangagwa 'buys people and use threats' to win elections Gumbo revealed - the cat is out of the bag!
22 Jan 2015 at 06:31hrs | Views
"Rinemanyanga huriputirwi!" so goes the Shona proverb. It is a warning that the truth can never be hidden for long, it will come out sooner or later.
Mugabe and Mnangagwa masterminded and executed the blatant vote rigging of the national elections in 2013. Other senior Zanu PF members like Rugare Gumbo were not let into the secret of how the vote rigging was done but they knew enough to know the election was rigged. When the two masterminded and executed yet another election fraud, the Zanu PF 2014 election, they must have known the Zanu PF party members they would be cheating this time round may decide to hit back by divulging the party's dirty secrets because that is exactly what is happening.
Whilst Didymus Mutasa has decided to hit back for the unceremonious way he was booted out of Zanu PF last year by mounting a Court challenge of the unconstitutional tactics used by Mugabe and Mnangagwa in the election. Rugare Gumbo has opened another front by revealing the thug tactics used to win elections.
"Mnangagwa! I have said time and again. As far as I am concerned I have nothing personal against Mnangagwa as Mnangagwa. But I do not agree with his style of operation and he knows it himself, we do not want people who tend to use military tactics, people who threaten people and so on. I do not believe in that, I believe in democracy," Rugare Gumbo told VOA Radio.
"We know it from experience, because we come from the Midlands. We know what he has done. He buys people, organizes threats and so on and we can't operate like that," said Rugare Gumbo.
The shoe is now in the other foot! Mutasa has the challenge to make his illegal procedure charges stand in a Court of law. Now it is Mnangagwa would will have to sue Gumbo, if dares, for defamation – portraying him as a thug who "buys people, organizes threats and so on".
Mnangagwa's brutal and very dirty past, which he has tried so hard to keep under wraps all these years, is now coming out and, like a hippo in a fast drying pond, the ugly beast is emerging one inch at a time. Mnangagwa can sue Gumbo or use his tried and tested methods of "organized threats and so on" but that will only prove he has been spooked. Even Mnangagwa must know that if push comes to shove, Gumbo will produce a dozen witnesses of people Mnangagwa has paid to do certain things to "win" elections and still have dozens more witnesses to spare.
After 35 years of tyrannical rule the people of Zimbabwe are sick to the back teeth of tyrants; the last thing the nation want is yet another tyrant given to rigging elections and denying them a meaningful vote. Evidence of vote rigging and thuggery is probably the worst start one could ever imagine for Mnangagwa's presidency! Now the cat is out of the bag that Mnangagwa rigs elections there is no putting it back!
Mugabe and Mnangagwa masterminded and executed the blatant vote rigging of the national elections in 2013. Other senior Zanu PF members like Rugare Gumbo were not let into the secret of how the vote rigging was done but they knew enough to know the election was rigged. When the two masterminded and executed yet another election fraud, the Zanu PF 2014 election, they must have known the Zanu PF party members they would be cheating this time round may decide to hit back by divulging the party's dirty secrets because that is exactly what is happening.
Whilst Didymus Mutasa has decided to hit back for the unceremonious way he was booted out of Zanu PF last year by mounting a Court challenge of the unconstitutional tactics used by Mugabe and Mnangagwa in the election. Rugare Gumbo has opened another front by revealing the thug tactics used to win elections.
"Mnangagwa! I have said time and again. As far as I am concerned I have nothing personal against Mnangagwa as Mnangagwa. But I do not agree with his style of operation and he knows it himself, we do not want people who tend to use military tactics, people who threaten people and so on. I do not believe in that, I believe in democracy," Rugare Gumbo told VOA Radio.
The shoe is now in the other foot! Mutasa has the challenge to make his illegal procedure charges stand in a Court of law. Now it is Mnangagwa would will have to sue Gumbo, if dares, for defamation – portraying him as a thug who "buys people, organizes threats and so on".
Mnangagwa's brutal and very dirty past, which he has tried so hard to keep under wraps all these years, is now coming out and, like a hippo in a fast drying pond, the ugly beast is emerging one inch at a time. Mnangagwa can sue Gumbo or use his tried and tested methods of "organized threats and so on" but that will only prove he has been spooked. Even Mnangagwa must know that if push comes to shove, Gumbo will produce a dozen witnesses of people Mnangagwa has paid to do certain things to "win" elections and still have dozens more witnesses to spare.
After 35 years of tyrannical rule the people of Zimbabwe are sick to the back teeth of tyrants; the last thing the nation want is yet another tyrant given to rigging elections and denying them a meaningful vote. Evidence of vote rigging and thuggery is probably the worst start one could ever imagine for Mnangagwa's presidency! Now the cat is out of the bag that Mnangagwa rigs elections there is no putting it back!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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