High drama...would be the apposite phrase to describe the [political] events that have marked this week.
Two former party Secretary Generals issuing a joint letter hitting back at one Cyprian Musiba, a Magufuli surrogate [self-appointed or otherwise] who’s been slinging ‘shade’ at mostly the CCM aging old guard.
Then Musiba, doing what he does best, returned fire by issuing his own warning not to mess with him. That he’s just getting started and has barely scratched the surface. Supposedly he’s got a ton of ammunition in his arsenal.
Then came the tapes. A steady drip drip started leaking. In them, several people [Kinana, Nape, Ngeleja, and the Makambas, father and son]can be heard trashing the hell out of the President. Calling him a bumpkin, ingratitude, saying that he’s scared, and much more!
But I’ve noticed something in these leaked tapes. A common denominator if you will. And that is Nape Nnauye. He features prominently in all of the tapes I’ve heard thus far.
Maybe that’s why after a few days after the first leak, yesterday he came out and made an appearance on Azam TV where he neither confirmed nor denied that one of the voices heard in those tapes, is not his. I was waiting with bated breath to hear what he has to say about the matter. It wasn’t much.
Think about this for a minute: how hard is it for one to wholly deny if it wasn’t him in those tapes? Not that hard.
Instead he hid behind the veneer of ‘this is a matter of criminality’ and that he won’t say much about it lest it interferes with the ‘criminal’ investigation. Is it even being investigated as such by the authorities? Anyway, whatever man.
All I can say about his appearance on TV is that, to me he didn’t pass my believability test. I think that voice is his voice and if I had my druthers, I’d dare him to take the lie detector test.
So, all this high drama got me thinking a little bit and I’m left with a few questions.
Clearly all is not well within CCM. From the looks of it, it appears like there’s a proxy war going on. The new guard vs the old guard.
The new guard wants to clean house. The old guard wants to preserve the status quo.
The new guard is led by President Magufuli. But he is personally not fighting the war. He is using surrogates - Musiba, Msukuma, Lusinde, maybe Bashe, and others.
But who’s behind the old guard? That’s what I want to know. Clearly Abdul Kinana and Yusuf Makamba aren’t the only ones.
As for Nape, I’d characterize him as being the canary in a coal mine. The guy has already fallen out of favor with President Magufuli. He probably has nothing much to lose should the old guard fail in its takeover attempt. So why not use him to test the resolve of the new guard? Heck, might as well.
I have no idea how this battle will pan out. I don’t know how strong the new guard is. I think I have an idea of what the old guard is made of and how capable it is.
Will it be a prolonged battle going well into the general election season or is it just an ephemeral hiccup that will be resolved quietly within the walls of the party? We shall see.
I guess in the end, whoever has a better grip on the levers of power, is he who will win.
Happy weeekend y’all.
It’s your boy, Nyani Ngabu [emoji1548].
I’m out.