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ED's Obsession With Pursuing A Third Term Will Be His Undoing - Mutebuka

1 year agoTue, 21 Nov 2023 08:10:35 GMT
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ED's Obsession With Pursuing A Third Term Will Be His Undoing - Mutebuka

Political commentator Brighton Mutebuka says President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s alleged quest to push for a constitutional amendment to remove the presidential term limit will result in his overthrow by a ZANU PF faction opposed to the plan.

Mnangagwa won his second and final term in the 23 August 2023 elections, and only an amendment of the constitution will allow him to run for another term in 2028 and beyond.

Posting on X, Mutebuka argued that the ongoing recalls of CCC MPs by Sengezo Tshabangu are aimed at reducing the number of opposition legislators to give ZANU PF a two-thirds majority which will result in constitutional amendments. He wrote:

The Tshabangu Saga Continues – Vindication of EUOM & SEOM Reports & The Beginning Of The End For ED!

1. It’s now clear that the strategy involved luring @CCCZimbabwe into fielding the same recalled candidates & then barring them on a technicality prior to the by-election date to leave ZANU PF candidates uncontested.

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2. ED & his regime are clearly oblivious to the fact that the more these shenanigans continue the more they vindicate that the findings of the Electoral Observer Mission Reports were unimpeachable.

3. This makes the case for intervention much more compelling, not less.

4. This behaviour suggests utter contempt for the will of the people & total control of all state institutions, with the appointment of CDF Sibanda to the Politburo (now reversed), saving to confirm that as well.

5. For a man in his 80s, ED has staked a lot on these recalls & in trying to obtain a two-thirds majority in Parliament illegally. More importantly, this opens a second front for ED by provoking a faction in his party which will now accelerate secretly working against him in earnest!

6. An objective assessment of the situation would seem to indicate that, this amounts to political overreaching. His blind ambition is too far-fetched and ignores political realities/fundamentals.

7. Chiwenga’s political ambitions are not a secret. He has clearly gone out of his way to project himself as a loyal deputy, just like ED tried to do during Bob’s last days.

8. He will feel morally entitled to succeed ED given what he believes to have been the huge sacrifices he made by being the coup’s ultimate guarantor by personally putting his neck on the guillotine.

9. Unlike the opposition, he has enduring ties in the military and is capable of leaning on them to stir things up should it come to that or to frustrate ED’s inevitable play at amending the Constitution for a tilt at a 3rd term.

10. Lessons drawn from history suggest that neither ED nor state court jesters egging him on are likely to fully appreciate the true scale of the obstacles that are standing in his way. At the moment, they are caught up in a bubble & believe that they are unstoppable! It’s that illusion that will be their greatest undoing! That is how the beginning of the end starts – by pursuing unrealistic goals!

Responding to a follower who had asked why CCC leader Nelson Chamisa took a great risk by fielding recalled MPs using the name CCC, Mutebuka said:

This is not about law but about politics. It’s beyond argument that Chamisa is the leader of CCC. Tshabangu is using ED’s borrowed robes and has even borrowed ED’s Lawyer if that needed spelling out to you. It’s that obsession with pursuing a 3rd term which will be his undoing!

Meanwhile, Tshabangu’s lawyer Advocate Lewis Uriri on Monday confirmed that they were filing an urgent High Court application seeking to bar recalled CCC legislators and councillors who successfully filed their nomination papers to contest in the 09 December by-elections.

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16 Comments

@Provocatuer · 1 year ago
those in the carebbean islands have a saying: the higher the. monkey climbs (up the tree) is the more it exposes (its behind)
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Absorbing analysis, Brighton. Absorbing.
Bigman · 1 year ago
Haachaluma anozvinyepera
Tj · 1 year ago
After elections ZANU is now fighting the will of the people instead of developing the economy 45years they are like that always laying enough is enough zanu need to be stopped, zanu is not for the people but for tshabhangu
rl · 1 year ago
chirungu
Anonymous · 1 year ago
I do not think that Mnangagwa's success in pushing for legislation that allows for more than two or three or four terms will anger the likes of Chiwenga because they stand to benefit more from that kind of legacy
· 1 year ago
How would that benefit Jenarari?
Ccc · 1 year ago
@baby not scary but very ugly
· 1 year ago
A face only a mother can love 🤣🤣🤣
CHAWABVUNZA · 1 year ago
It was known and it was always said so many times that running a political party without a constitution or a structured leadership was going to expose the genuine CCC to what has tragically happened today, it was repeatedly said. ZANUPF was always going to facilitate for any disgruntled CCC member to do what happened today, ZANUPF controls parliament. When this was raised many times before and after the elections, those who raised this point were insulted and told to either form their own parties where they could have party constitutions, or they were told that there is a plan. The young man sold the citizens movement and he is in bed with Tshabangu and ZANU PF period. This my story and I'm sticking to it. [THE BUSH LAWYER4CCC].
Devil's Advocate · 1 year ago
The content of your submission and the signature at the bottom are in total variance. I personally am fed up of your stealing someone's pen name and spewing utter rubbish. Utter rubbish if you so wish, but don't steal someone's name to do it. I know for the ZANU troll that you are.
Baby · 1 year ago
that picture is scary. 😨
Ini Zvangu · 1 year ago
.. Thats reality my friend
XXX · 1 year ago
It is true that what Sengezo Tshabangu's boss is doing is clearly destroying all strong Opposition in the land. His boss is fighting for a one party state. After he has destroyed the opposition, he is going for his own "children" I the party. He is going to eliminate them one by one to strengthen his grip on the party. Last week he tried to "capture" Army General Sibanda. He failed in his tracks. It would seem that Sengezo Tshabangu's boss wants to rule forever !!!!! Sengezo Tshabangu's boss has shown serious dictatorial tendencies. EHE ICHO !!!!!

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