Desperado Biti to boycott 2018 unless EU monitor elections - implement reforms first!

"People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti has told his supporters that he will boycott the 2018 general elections if European Union observers are not invited," reported the Herald.

This is the politics of the desperadoes; they start nowhere and end nowhere else! And, here is where it really gets most intriguing, they actually expect the nation to follow them.

If we want free, fair and credible elections then we must implement all the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA; that much was clear to all who followed Zimbabwe's political circus. Tendai Biti was one of MDC's chief negotiators throughout the process leading to the signing of the said agreement. So of all the MDC leaders, Tendai Biti understood the purpose of the raft of democratic reforms in the GPA was to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship.

The converse is equally true of course, of all the MDC leaders Tendai Biti understood how much it would hurt Mugabe and his dream of no regime change for which he had carried out all the barbarism of the 2008 elections. Biti developed a fatherly relationship with the tyrant to the utter horror and disgust of many observers.

In July 2012 Tendai Biti gave one of his most shocking interviews of his life. Biti condescended to calling Mugabe "unflappable father of the nation". He was not the only MDC leader to sing Mugabe's praises; even the egregious Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga was charmed out of her knickers, she "was speechless". Even David Coltart, to the shock and surprise of the whole world, joined in the praising of Mugabe.

 Of course Mugabe had not change in any way, he was the same cantankerous, corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrant he was before the GNU and was never ever going to change. A leopard does not change its spots just because it was caught in a storm!

What Mugabe did after signing the GPA was open his arms and add on another two or three extra wagons on the gravy train for Prime Minister Morgan Richard Tsvangirai and all his fellow MDC friends; they were to get all their wishes, no expense spare. For Tsvangirai, he got the $4 million mansion as a sweeter! Of course Mugabe was bribing MDC leaders, he has done the same with his own Zanu PF thugs and bigwigs alike and MDC leaders were equally corrupt and incompetent!

MDC leaders took the bribes and kicked all the reforms into the tail grass. After five years of the GNU not even one democratic reform was implemented and Mugabe cashed in on his gravy train investment – he was able to blatantly rig the July 2013 elections and romp back to State House with a clear majority.

SADC heads complained of MDC leaders "enjoying themselves in the GNU and forgetting why they were there!" in sheer exasperation that not even one reform had been implemented.

Tendai Biti has since the rigged elections admitted to MDC leaders' "collective idiocy" for having failed to get even one reform implemented.

So if we want free, fair and credible elections and we already know that we need to implement all the 2008 GPA democratic reforms; Biti of all people should know this. We know without the reform Zanu PF will have a myriad ways to rig the elections is the challenge here too see how many of these the EU monitors can uncover? The EU monitors will uncover that the Public Media is biased in favour of Zanu PF, for example, we all knew that from the start and accepted it as "normal" since are clearly doing nothing about it. So why should the EU list it as an irregularity? And even if they do that, to what end and purpose?

Sadly Tendai Biti is seeking to compound the "collective idiocy" of his GNU days by once again doing nothing about implement the reforms before the next elections. Leaving MDC-T has not cured Biti and his PDP friends of their "collective idiocy", they are still afflicted; calling for EU election monitor without implementing any reform is, let us face it, idiotic!