Prepare For The Worst
Justice George Chiweshe, who chairs ZEC, hinted that official results will be released from 06.00 hours this morning.
But the fact is that the results are common knowledge to the electorate as each polling station has posted the outcome on the walls of each polling station countrywide and all ZEC was expected to do was verify, collate and aggregate the figures in various constituencies then announce them.
Instead ZEC has withheld releasing of the aggregate results for any constituency while any emergency meeting of the Joint Operations Commission (JOC) was hurriedly convened from 17.00 hours on 30 March 2008 ostensibly to ratify and authorise release of the results which were at ZEC’s disposal by then.
The JOC meeting which draws together heads of security Ministries and Service Chiefs is understood to have resolved to withhold the announcement of the results overnight to allow ZEC to thoroughly authenticate the results before it which clearly showed the MDC and its leader had won 67% of the vote and should have been announced winners of the election according to impeccable ZimDaily sources within the CIO privy to the goings on in ZEC.
The same sources indicated that outgoing President Mugabe had conceded defeat and slipped out of the country when the Military Heads refused to accept the results and ordered ZEC to invent results that will show a Zanu PF and Mugabe victory and announce those from 06.00 hours today.
Our sources disclosed that only the Deputy Air force commander backed Mugabe while all others led by Didymus Mutasa rejected the outcome and literally placed the dissenting Air force Commander under military arrest in typical fashion to the execution of a military coup.
It is further understood that Mutasa was peeved and livid about losing his constituency to the opposition MDC after attempts for him to stuff votes in his constituency were circumvented by the vigilant monitoring mechanisms at polling stations.
Why ZEC has to take orders from JOC when they claim to be the Supreme electoral authority in the country must be sending shivers of rage in the expectant electorate.
The SADC heads of state are believed to have convened a meeting where they urged the Military to reconsider its undemocratic stance in this election and hopefully sanity will prevail among them and Justice Chiweshe will have the nerve to be the custodian of our democratic processes and refuse to be bulldozed into announcing false results that could cause the country to sink into mayhem.
The electorate must remain calm and resolute in defence of their vote and the MDC must be prepared for the worst and deal with the imminent political and electoral impasse swiftly and decisively for this time their victory is not assumed but confirmed by results at each and every polling booth in the country.
(Source)
Comment: The key for me, in this article, is the assertion that Mugabe has slipped out of the country, having conceded defeat. He hasn’t been seen since he voted - and told the world that he couldn’t sleep if he had cheated.
I hope he doesn’t have another restful night for the rest of his miserable days - in Mayalysia, or wherever it is that he has run to.
I wonder what a new government will do about the exiled Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam who was tried and convicted in abstentia in that country and sentenced ro life in prison for being complicit to the deaths of 2000 people.
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