Rutashubanyuma
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- Sep 24, 2010
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Nowhere in our 49 years since independence has a presidency been harangued with allegations of vote rigging and having crawled back to power with such a narrow mandate to lead this nation.....a 26.2% of registered voters huddling around JK's candidacy should be worrying for CCM adulators that only state machinery is keeping their straw on the pot of power....and that legitimacy to govern is not coming from eligible voters, at all, given the figures NEC has issued today. One needs at least forty percent of eligible voters to claim has been bestowed an overall mandate to lead or otherwise he ought to lead from the center of political divide.............
The overall state of JK's presidency ushers in a lame duck president ironically touting an over-sized electoral pledges.....In almost everyway this is very sad for him because as students of history we know a narrow mandate bestowed on JK calls for power bargaining but not brandishing non-existing state authority......................it calls for bargaining rather than flexing political muscles. The days of CCM bullying the opposition are long gone because voters trust neither of them to lead.............and here, I am treading very carefully by doling out NEC with unsolicited collateral faith over their electoral verdict, and without doing so, I will not be in a position to doodle over this most controversial electoral verdict in our short history.
But even in the hour of darkness there can be a ray of hope.....but that depends if CCM can unlearn years of one party monopoly and begin to talk of reconciliation and healing the nation.....and in particular if they can begin by apologizing for lying to us that we are tribalistic and riddled with religious bigotry.....NEC's electoral verdict says we are not......
The national healing process can begin by CCM admitting for playing hardball unnecessarily and putting our national identity at peril for their parochial selfish gains...........
JK can begin national healing process by admitting this election was not free and fair and urge us to work together to ensure future elections will muster the expectations of all people.....JK; unfortunately, today started on wrong-footing when he claimed that we are all winners.................how can we be all winners when the electoral process was flawed abinitio..this is not leadership, at all...................Once democracy was the biggest loser so were we.....
Leadership is all about assuming responsibility rather than assigning blame.........JK still has a long way to re-learn..leadership is a virtue of humility but not foisting his way back to power and refusing to acknowledge the blatant defects of our electoral process....only because he is a beneficiary of our weak institutions of governance that he feels he can afford to pop up a bottle of champagne...well, he should not because there is nothing to celebrate but every reason to mourn the dearth of democratic dispensation.....How pathetic, JK has turned out to be despite reminding all who care to heed him that he is eying his place in our rickety history.................An enduring legacy for JK? Give me a break.........
The overall state of JK's presidency ushers in a lame duck president ironically touting an over-sized electoral pledges.....In almost everyway this is very sad for him because as students of history we know a narrow mandate bestowed on JK calls for power bargaining but not brandishing non-existing state authority......................it calls for bargaining rather than flexing political muscles. The days of CCM bullying the opposition are long gone because voters trust neither of them to lead.............and here, I am treading very carefully by doling out NEC with unsolicited collateral faith over their electoral verdict, and without doing so, I will not be in a position to doodle over this most controversial electoral verdict in our short history.
But even in the hour of darkness there can be a ray of hope.....but that depends if CCM can unlearn years of one party monopoly and begin to talk of reconciliation and healing the nation.....and in particular if they can begin by apologizing for lying to us that we are tribalistic and riddled with religious bigotry.....NEC's electoral verdict says we are not......
The national healing process can begin by CCM admitting for playing hardball unnecessarily and putting our national identity at peril for their parochial selfish gains...........
JK can begin national healing process by admitting this election was not free and fair and urge us to work together to ensure future elections will muster the expectations of all people.....JK; unfortunately, today started on wrong-footing when he claimed that we are all winners.................how can we be all winners when the electoral process was flawed abinitio..this is not leadership, at all...................Once democracy was the biggest loser so were we.....
Leadership is all about assuming responsibility rather than assigning blame.........JK still has a long way to re-learn..leadership is a virtue of humility but not foisting his way back to power and refusing to acknowledge the blatant defects of our electoral process....only because he is a beneficiary of our weak institutions of governance that he feels he can afford to pop up a bottle of champagne...well, he should not because there is nothing to celebrate but every reason to mourn the dearth of democratic dispensation.....How pathetic, JK has turned out to be despite reminding all who care to heed him that he is eying his place in our rickety history.................An enduring legacy for JK? Give me a break.........
