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Dr Magaisa advise MDC to take 'sober approach' to Mugabe 63% approval rating - more stupid advice
07 May 2015 at 16:49hrs | Views
There is nothing more annoying that a man of little intellect masquerading as an intellectual! Dr Magaisa, former adviser to former Prime Minister Dr Morgan Tsvangirai is one such pretentious intellectual. Dr Magaisa's praise and validating the latest Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) giving Mugabe a staggering 63% popularity rating; does not make any sense.
"President Mugabe still enjoys the trust of the people. Apparently, 63% of Zimbabweans surveyed trust President Mugabe. He enjoys greater support in his traditional stronghold, the rural areas where 70% trust him while he only enjoys 45% trust of the urban people. By gender, 62% of males trust him, while he is trusted by 64% of the women. An additional statistic is that 54% of Zimbabweans trust the ruling party, Zanu PF," wrote Magaisa. Dr Magaisa was quoting his figures from the Poll survey conducted MPOI, in partnership with Afrobarometer, "both respected research institutions", he insisted. "And lest we forget, the last time these two carried out a similar survey, back in 2012, they were dismissed in some quarters, especially in the opposition, but this attitude was not helpful. The outcome of their survey seemed to back the outcome of July 13," argued Dr Magaisa. There is overwhelming evidence that Mugabe and Zanu PF blatantly rigged the July 2013 elections; this is a settled historic fact. It was MDC's failure to get even one reform implemented in the five years of the GNU that made it possible for Zanu PF to rig the elections – yet another settled historic fact.
Dr Magaisa as MDC leader Tsvangirai's adviser played a major role in MDC's failure to implement the reforms and in ignoring advice from SADC and other parties to implement the reforms. Although Dr Magaisa has so far pointedly refused to deny that he advised MDC to do nothing regarding implementing the reforms everything he has said would suggest that is exactly what he advised. So MDC got stupid advice from a stupid adviser. And now Dr Magaisa is trying to cover his tracks by suggesting Mugabe "won" the July 2013 elections because the tyrant was popular as MPOI poll results showed! Even if one accepted the 2012 MPOI results as true, they gave Mugabe a single digit poll lead over the opposition; which is nowhere near the landslide victory Zanu PF got in the July 2013 elections. So the surprise result would have made anyone suspicious and a close look at contact of the whole electoral process would have confirmed the election was rigged.
The most generous conclusion one can make is that since the July elections were rigged no one can say in all honesty that the July 2013 a confirmation of MPOI's 2012 survey results.
Before the 2013 elections Zanu PF went on a charm offensive employing a number of PR companies in USA and UK to spruce up Mugabe's image. These companies were paid millions of dollars for their services. Many people believe MPOI and Afrobarometer were some of the many companies employed to portray Mugabe and Zanu PF in a positive light and therefore not "respected research institutions" Dr Magaisa would have us believe.
It is hard to accept that Dr Magaisa is really as stupid as he appears to be; he could well be a double agent pedalling stupid advice to the opposition, gullible and naïve enough to take it again and again. His latest task is to give credibility and mileage to the latest false MPOI survey claiming Mugabe is more popular than ever regardless of the country's desperate economic situation. Zimbabwe is a country ruled by fear and ignorance resulting from barrage of deliberate misinformation. So until the nation is freed from these two evils one will have to take public survey data collected from such a public with a pitch of salt. Still, one can get away with serving mutton instead of lamb but not so with hot chilli; no one can be fooled for 35 years that they are prospering when everything tells them they are drowning.
Life expectancy has drop from 68 years in 1980 to 34 years in 2004, unemployment has soared to 90%, 16% of the population are living in abject poverty, millions have been forced to leave the country to escape economic hardships and/or political repression, etc. And the economic situation is getting worse, not better, by the day. So it does not make any sense that Mugabe's popularity rating should be an impressive 63%!
The people are poor and ignorant but they are stupid to be thankful to Mugabe for ruining the nation's economy and denying them their basic freedoms and human rights and dignities.
The worsening economic situation and the Zanu PF implosion has left Mugabe desperate for something to cheer about, this falsified MPOI poll would cheer the tyrant greatly and confuse the gullible opposition. Dr Magaisa is doing his bit to make sure the latter take the survey finding very seriously.
"The ruling party has struggled with its own politics and with the economy, which it cannot resuscitate. There is general frustration and an atmosphere of hopelessness," admitted our double agent, Dr Magaisa.
"Yet against this bleak background, the Afrobarometer survey suggests that President Mugabe and Zanu PF continue to thrive, enjoying public trust, particularly in the rural areas. This will please President Mugabe and his supporters but it will annoy and frustrate those in the opposition. But it is important to take a sober approach to all this and try to understand why this survey has produced these results," concluded the double agent.
If only the economy could be so easily bamboozled by nonsensical survey results as Dr Morgan Tsvangirai was; no doubt MPOI and Afrobarometer would have published survey results showing country was creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs per month, well on course to fulfil Mugabe's promise of 2.2 million new jobs by 2018.
Our double agent, Dr Magaisa played his part in making sure Tsvangirai did not implement any reforms and now the agent is busy denying the July 2013 elections were rigged. But even he cannot deny Mugabe has failed to rig economic recovery!!
"President Mugabe still enjoys the trust of the people. Apparently, 63% of Zimbabweans surveyed trust President Mugabe. He enjoys greater support in his traditional stronghold, the rural areas where 70% trust him while he only enjoys 45% trust of the urban people. By gender, 62% of males trust him, while he is trusted by 64% of the women. An additional statistic is that 54% of Zimbabweans trust the ruling party, Zanu PF," wrote Magaisa. Dr Magaisa was quoting his figures from the Poll survey conducted MPOI, in partnership with Afrobarometer, "both respected research institutions", he insisted. "And lest we forget, the last time these two carried out a similar survey, back in 2012, they were dismissed in some quarters, especially in the opposition, but this attitude was not helpful. The outcome of their survey seemed to back the outcome of July 13," argued Dr Magaisa. There is overwhelming evidence that Mugabe and Zanu PF blatantly rigged the July 2013 elections; this is a settled historic fact. It was MDC's failure to get even one reform implemented in the five years of the GNU that made it possible for Zanu PF to rig the elections – yet another settled historic fact.
Dr Magaisa as MDC leader Tsvangirai's adviser played a major role in MDC's failure to implement the reforms and in ignoring advice from SADC and other parties to implement the reforms. Although Dr Magaisa has so far pointedly refused to deny that he advised MDC to do nothing regarding implementing the reforms everything he has said would suggest that is exactly what he advised. So MDC got stupid advice from a stupid adviser. And now Dr Magaisa is trying to cover his tracks by suggesting Mugabe "won" the July 2013 elections because the tyrant was popular as MPOI poll results showed! Even if one accepted the 2012 MPOI results as true, they gave Mugabe a single digit poll lead over the opposition; which is nowhere near the landslide victory Zanu PF got in the July 2013 elections. So the surprise result would have made anyone suspicious and a close look at contact of the whole electoral process would have confirmed the election was rigged.
The most generous conclusion one can make is that since the July elections were rigged no one can say in all honesty that the July 2013 a confirmation of MPOI's 2012 survey results.
Before the 2013 elections Zanu PF went on a charm offensive employing a number of PR companies in USA and UK to spruce up Mugabe's image. These companies were paid millions of dollars for their services. Many people believe MPOI and Afrobarometer were some of the many companies employed to portray Mugabe and Zanu PF in a positive light and therefore not "respected research institutions" Dr Magaisa would have us believe.
It is hard to accept that Dr Magaisa is really as stupid as he appears to be; he could well be a double agent pedalling stupid advice to the opposition, gullible and naïve enough to take it again and again. His latest task is to give credibility and mileage to the latest false MPOI survey claiming Mugabe is more popular than ever regardless of the country's desperate economic situation. Zimbabwe is a country ruled by fear and ignorance resulting from barrage of deliberate misinformation. So until the nation is freed from these two evils one will have to take public survey data collected from such a public with a pitch of salt. Still, one can get away with serving mutton instead of lamb but not so with hot chilli; no one can be fooled for 35 years that they are prospering when everything tells them they are drowning.
Life expectancy has drop from 68 years in 1980 to 34 years in 2004, unemployment has soared to 90%, 16% of the population are living in abject poverty, millions have been forced to leave the country to escape economic hardships and/or political repression, etc. And the economic situation is getting worse, not better, by the day. So it does not make any sense that Mugabe's popularity rating should be an impressive 63%!
The people are poor and ignorant but they are stupid to be thankful to Mugabe for ruining the nation's economy and denying them their basic freedoms and human rights and dignities.
The worsening economic situation and the Zanu PF implosion has left Mugabe desperate for something to cheer about, this falsified MPOI poll would cheer the tyrant greatly and confuse the gullible opposition. Dr Magaisa is doing his bit to make sure the latter take the survey finding very seriously.
"The ruling party has struggled with its own politics and with the economy, which it cannot resuscitate. There is general frustration and an atmosphere of hopelessness," admitted our double agent, Dr Magaisa.
"Yet against this bleak background, the Afrobarometer survey suggests that President Mugabe and Zanu PF continue to thrive, enjoying public trust, particularly in the rural areas. This will please President Mugabe and his supporters but it will annoy and frustrate those in the opposition. But it is important to take a sober approach to all this and try to understand why this survey has produced these results," concluded the double agent.
If only the economy could be so easily bamboozled by nonsensical survey results as Dr Morgan Tsvangirai was; no doubt MPOI and Afrobarometer would have published survey results showing country was creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs per month, well on course to fulfil Mugabe's promise of 2.2 million new jobs by 2018.
Our double agent, Dr Magaisa played his part in making sure Tsvangirai did not implement any reforms and now the agent is busy denying the July 2013 elections were rigged. But even he cannot deny Mugabe has failed to rig economic recovery!!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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