Rutashubanyuma
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- Sep 24, 2010
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The CHADEMA incumbent Chairman FREEMAN MBOWE is man laden with controversies but his presidential ambitions that he has been nursing for more than a decade now have been excruciatingly tormenting him to a point he needs another realistic path to that much coveted post in the public sector.
MBOWE's ill-fated stab at presidency in 2005 left him with many unanswered questions but also with enduring lessons which include: the united opposition can really upstage CCM in civic, parliamentary and presidential elections. MBOWE needs to search no far as almost all election triumphs to the opposition across African continent have been a gratefully acknowledgment of united opposition was "unstoppable" dream to rout out the ruling parties which are notoriously known for official graft, insensitivities to the plight of the poor and massive electoral frauds as their only means to stay in power!
Presidential path for MBOWE though realistic through UKAWA - it is littered with booby traps and many hidden pitfalls which if not neutralized - he will join other perennial presidential election losers such as Professor Lipumba.
The CCM constitutional draft if passed or not the status quo will not be altered affording Mr. MBOWE ample avenues to dole out to his presidential rivals within UKAWA with prestigious posts within the government ranging from ministerial, ambassadorial, Board memberships in unaccountable parastatals let alone D.Cs and R.Cs whose real contribution to the Treasury is wholesome negative!
UKAWA seems ready to embrace Mr. MBOWE because he is young, known for sticking out his neck for causes he holds dear to his heart but far more important he enjoys a second stint at the Augusta House. In UKAWA, no credible political rival taunts such resume considering Dr. Wilbard Slaa has hanged his presidential gloves upon permanent disability he accrued during the last general election. If you peek at CUF perennial presidential candidate Professor Lipumba's aggregate presidential votes since 1995 to 2010 you will be astonished to learn his ballot box votes has been tortured by diminishing marginal returns! Political constraints for Professor Lipumba are really eclectic in nature. Where he is perturbed why him as the academic don fails to capture the imagination of voters but it is lack of parliamentary stump that is doing him injustice. If he really wanted to successfully run for presidency given the nature of our governance system is structured he ought to have cut his teeth in parliament. Without legislative experience his presidential ambitions were doomed abinitio and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Pole, professor: you are a byproduct of your own poor planning and nothing more…so poor planning on part of the eminent professor should not in any way create a crisis or an emergence within the UKAWA phalanx made sense yesterday, today and definitely tomorrow.
Only Nyerere did not need legislative experience to gun down the presidency and though Mwinyi may have followed Nyerere's footsteps but that was an era of one party dictatorship and proffers no insight at all in this often, turbulent, multiparty era. During multiparty era both Mkapa and Kikwete had considerable legislative experience to brandish during presidential campaigns let alone sprouting executive experience in public domain. With the private sector failing to make serious international headways we are a couple of decades before private sector magnates can successfully seek and secure the presidency without the benefit of legislative experience. That time is not with us today and hankering for it is a wastrel to put it mildly, though.
Other presidential pretenders of the calibre of NCCR boss who twice failed even to win the parliamentary seat and his claim to legislative experience is gratitude of bootlicking CCM is at best left unanalyzed and at worst scoffed at.
MBOWE's legislative experience is fraught with running away from problems and in many ways mimicking the Biblical adage "A dog returns to his vomit and a fool to his folly." In the aftermath of 2010 presidential election, CHADEMA under MBOWE's watch had promised a mother of legal battles to stop Kikwete being anointed our president but despite that hullabaloo Kikwete's coronation was unabated.
CHADEMA promised not to recognize Kikwete's presidency yet today CHADEMA never fails to seek his intervention when parliamentary earthquakes seem to embattle it. Kikwete to his credit listens to their anguish with a genial grimace but rarely implements their requests. My point is behind MBOWE's vociferous rhetoric lies a feeble heart of a non-achiever.
MBOWE's executive experience mirrors his lack of success at the Augusta House. CHADEMA have been lamenting voter bribery and sheer theft while doing little to address those hindrances. Where in 2005 MBOWE would have been considered a lightweight and naïve politician unaware of the vagaries of managing a successful election but five years down the road he seemed to have grasped no lessons, at all! One would have thought, the costs of running a successful election require the party to finance their civic, parliamentary and presidential election to be able to monitor through poll agents in the polling stations where CCM does them the most damaging but no pecuniary effort was notable! In 2010, it was business as usual for CCM as bribery and outright ballot box frauds were committed at the polling stations condemning the opposition to yet another defeat. In 2015, CHADEMA and UKAWA by extension still fails to appreciate that "people's power" may sound popular but has no impact in the polling stations if polling agents continue to be used and dumped without appropriate being compensated for their vigilance.
Will MBOWE win the UKAWA presidential ticket is no longer a possibility but a must because the latter needs him more now than he needs it. But winning the presidency with the kind of mediocre and self-seeking attitude - within UKAWA - may be way out of MBOWE's league even reconciling with the love of his youth may not be sufficient to address a multitude of deficiencies I have just gone through.
MBOWE's ill-fated stab at presidency in 2005 left him with many unanswered questions but also with enduring lessons which include: the united opposition can really upstage CCM in civic, parliamentary and presidential elections. MBOWE needs to search no far as almost all election triumphs to the opposition across African continent have been a gratefully acknowledgment of united opposition was "unstoppable" dream to rout out the ruling parties which are notoriously known for official graft, insensitivities to the plight of the poor and massive electoral frauds as their only means to stay in power!
Presidential path for MBOWE though realistic through UKAWA - it is littered with booby traps and many hidden pitfalls which if not neutralized - he will join other perennial presidential election losers such as Professor Lipumba.
The CCM constitutional draft if passed or not the status quo will not be altered affording Mr. MBOWE ample avenues to dole out to his presidential rivals within UKAWA with prestigious posts within the government ranging from ministerial, ambassadorial, Board memberships in unaccountable parastatals let alone D.Cs and R.Cs whose real contribution to the Treasury is wholesome negative!
UKAWA seems ready to embrace Mr. MBOWE because he is young, known for sticking out his neck for causes he holds dear to his heart but far more important he enjoys a second stint at the Augusta House. In UKAWA, no credible political rival taunts such resume considering Dr. Wilbard Slaa has hanged his presidential gloves upon permanent disability he accrued during the last general election. If you peek at CUF perennial presidential candidate Professor Lipumba's aggregate presidential votes since 1995 to 2010 you will be astonished to learn his ballot box votes has been tortured by diminishing marginal returns! Political constraints for Professor Lipumba are really eclectic in nature. Where he is perturbed why him as the academic don fails to capture the imagination of voters but it is lack of parliamentary stump that is doing him injustice. If he really wanted to successfully run for presidency given the nature of our governance system is structured he ought to have cut his teeth in parliament. Without legislative experience his presidential ambitions were doomed abinitio and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Pole, professor: you are a byproduct of your own poor planning and nothing more…so poor planning on part of the eminent professor should not in any way create a crisis or an emergence within the UKAWA phalanx made sense yesterday, today and definitely tomorrow.
Only Nyerere did not need legislative experience to gun down the presidency and though Mwinyi may have followed Nyerere's footsteps but that was an era of one party dictatorship and proffers no insight at all in this often, turbulent, multiparty era. During multiparty era both Mkapa and Kikwete had considerable legislative experience to brandish during presidential campaigns let alone sprouting executive experience in public domain. With the private sector failing to make serious international headways we are a couple of decades before private sector magnates can successfully seek and secure the presidency without the benefit of legislative experience. That time is not with us today and hankering for it is a wastrel to put it mildly, though.
Other presidential pretenders of the calibre of NCCR boss who twice failed even to win the parliamentary seat and his claim to legislative experience is gratitude of bootlicking CCM is at best left unanalyzed and at worst scoffed at.
MBOWE's legislative experience is fraught with running away from problems and in many ways mimicking the Biblical adage "A dog returns to his vomit and a fool to his folly." In the aftermath of 2010 presidential election, CHADEMA under MBOWE's watch had promised a mother of legal battles to stop Kikwete being anointed our president but despite that hullabaloo Kikwete's coronation was unabated.
CHADEMA promised not to recognize Kikwete's presidency yet today CHADEMA never fails to seek his intervention when parliamentary earthquakes seem to embattle it. Kikwete to his credit listens to their anguish with a genial grimace but rarely implements their requests. My point is behind MBOWE's vociferous rhetoric lies a feeble heart of a non-achiever.
MBOWE's executive experience mirrors his lack of success at the Augusta House. CHADEMA have been lamenting voter bribery and sheer theft while doing little to address those hindrances. Where in 2005 MBOWE would have been considered a lightweight and naïve politician unaware of the vagaries of managing a successful election but five years down the road he seemed to have grasped no lessons, at all! One would have thought, the costs of running a successful election require the party to finance their civic, parliamentary and presidential election to be able to monitor through poll agents in the polling stations where CCM does them the most damaging but no pecuniary effort was notable! In 2010, it was business as usual for CCM as bribery and outright ballot box frauds were committed at the polling stations condemning the opposition to yet another defeat. In 2015, CHADEMA and UKAWA by extension still fails to appreciate that "people's power" may sound popular but has no impact in the polling stations if polling agents continue to be used and dumped without appropriate being compensated for their vigilance.
Will MBOWE win the UKAWA presidential ticket is no longer a possibility but a must because the latter needs him more now than he needs it. But winning the presidency with the kind of mediocre and self-seeking attitude - within UKAWA - may be way out of MBOWE's league even reconciling with the love of his youth may not be sufficient to address a multitude of deficiencies I have just gone through.
