The national spokesperson of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Fadzayi Mahere, has said her party was performing above many people’s expectations.
In reference to the CCC, Mahere said, “The new baby is 11 months old” but performed “well” in by-elections held in the country so far. She added:
It won the lion’s share of this year’s by-elections despite violence, intimidation, banning of rallies, persecution of members, unlawful arrests, deprivation of resources & sponsored attacks. How many likes for the new CCC baby yatambudza Zanu?
They dug a political grave for us. We emerged stronger. They fell into the grave themselves.
CURRENT BY-ELECTION SCORECARD:
@CCCZimbabwe – 61% @ZANUPF_Official – 39% 2022 is a sign of what’s to come next year. We want to win an even bigger chunk of the pie in 2023! The citizens will win BIG!
Even @ZECzim knows that @CCCZimbabwe is a new baby born on 24 January 2022. They, like the people, know that @CCCZimbabwe is not the MDC Alliance. @ZANUPF_Official is panicking to the point of denying the obvious! #NewYellowBaby
Munoti “childish” but you deploy so much time, energy, state institutions, political violence, vote buying, money, rally bans, paid twitter trolls & hired ex-members to try & fight it. The truth is chakutambudzai. Chinhu chevanhu!
Zvikambonzi hamuna structure zvozonzi muriMDC.
In response to Mahere’s remarks, self-exiled former minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Professor Jonathan Moyo cited Pedzisai Ruhanya who had earlier said CCC has a huge task ahead of the 2023 elections. He said:
It is childish for a by-election loser to claim, “chakutambudzai chinhu chevanhu”. Atambudzwa nekuhwina ma by-elections ndiani!? By-election results have your worried backers thinking: “the opposition (CCC) has a lot of ground to cover with only 6 months to go”.
Commenting on the by-elections results, Pedzisai Ruhanya, a Zimbabwean academic, journalist, and political commentator said:
Weekend by-election results can’t be used to determine @nelsonchamisa presidential election performance in 2023. Besides the fact that in research one can’t use an outlier to make a broad generalization, contemporary data reveals that from MDC to CCC, the President does better.
ZANU PF won three out of the five posts that were up for grabs on Saturday.
MusoroBhemba busy campaigning for readmission into The Old People's Home. It seems ok for him to generalise based on last weekend's results, but the entire 2022 results are not representative.
3 out of 5 (60%) in favour of ZANU is acceptable. But 108 out of 177 (61%) in favour of CCC is a poor showing. Logic yaMuzvinafundo MusoroBhemba ndaitadza ini
CCC is another name for majority urban voters. History will not change. Opposition voters most likely to get less than 50 % in legislature and and ED getting around 52% Presidential votes. That will send political opposition mongrels in disarray for another 5 years, post harmonised elections.
Comrade, you are assuming that ED gets the same votes as the locals and MPs which didn't happen last time. you also assume rural votes are ALL for ZANU, another fallacy.
Poor Jonathan conducting his political science experiments hiding in the bunker still afraid of Garwe...come on get the balls , come out of the bunker and get real. Umzabalazo womtshotshaphansi awuzukukuphakamisa, yikho nje ubona abantu bonke laba bekujonga njengesiwula sokucina. Izolo ubusubelisa umsila phakathi kwezibunu ulotsha phambi komuntu owabulala uyihlo, awula mahloni!
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