MUGABE`S VICTORY SHOCKS THE NATION!
Shock and despair as Zanu (PF)
headed for victory
The results from the harmonized elections that show
ZANU PF and their presidential candidate Robert Mugabe may be headed for a
landslide victory has left many Zimbabweans in shock.
Unconfirmed provisional results project that ZANU PF
is going to win the poll by over 160 parliamentary seats. The MDC-T has said
the poll was massively rigged in favour of ZANU PF, using a manipulated voters
roll.
It has left many within the MDC-T ‘shell-shocked’,
including its top officials who lost their parliamentary seats. Unofficial
results show that the party heavyweights who lost include the MP for Harare
North and co-Home Affairs Minister Theresa Makone, the MP for Mt. Pleasant
Jameson Timba and energy minister Elton Mangoma.
To make matters worse, ZANU PF has managed to retake
all the 20 seats it lost to the MDC-T in the 2008 election in Manicaland.
Reports indicate Morgan Tsvangirai’s party only managed to hang-on to two seats
out of 26. War vets leader Joseph Chinotimba won the right to represent ZANU PF
in Buhera South, while former police spokesman Olive Mandipaka won in Buhera
West.
In Nyanga South Supa Mandiwanzira is now an MP for
ZANU PF, while the MDC-T spokesman Douglas Mwonzora lost to Hubert Nyanhongo of
ZANU PF.
In Masvingo, where both ZANU PF and MDC-T had sizeable
number of seats, all 26 seats have reportedly gone to Mugabe’s party, while in
Mashonaland East the MDC-T has only won one parliamentary seat out of 19. ZANU
PF won 13 out of 15 seats in Mashonaland West province where the MDC-T used to
have four seats.
Only in Bulawayo metropolitan province did the MDC-T
manage to win all the 12 parliamentary seats. In Matabeleland North nine seats
went to ZANU PF while the MDC-T has three, while in Mat South ZANU PF grabbed
eleven seats to MDC-T’s one.
Reports from Mashonaland Central indicate that ZANU PF
took all the 18 seats. In Harare, where the MDC-T had a majority of 23 out of
24 seats, ZANU PF has reportedly grabbed 5 seats, a shock considering that this
is a major stronghold of the MDC-T.
In the Midlands North province ZANU PF took 16 out of
the 18 and in the Midlands South Mugabe’s party took 12 out of 14 seats.
Pishai Muchauraya, who lost his Makoni South seat,
described the defeat as shocking, saying the results are so unbelievable that
even ZANU PF supporters and candidates are surprised by what has happened.
‘To start with there was blatant rigging where people
were bused from other provinces to come and beef up their numbers in the
province. Some people in Makoni South were voting three times and we understand
there was some chemical they were using to erase the indelible ink from their
fingers,’ Muchauraya said.
Settlement Chikwinya, one of two MDC-T MPs to retain
their seats in Midlands North, said the loss has left him bewildered
considering that they thought they had victory in their sights.
‘I’m still to comprehend this, but we knew something
was fishy from the high numbers that turned up for the referendum. How they did
it we will only know in weeks, but it was so blatant we had people with voter
registration slips from other constituencies coming to vote in Mbizo,’
Chikwinya said.
As stated these results are provisional. There were
reports that MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti had lost his seat, but Senator
David Coltart posted on his Facebook page that Biti had narrowly retained his
seat. Coltart himself lost, to the MDC-T’s Thabitha Khumalo. - SW Radio
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