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ZIMBABWE OPPOSITION LEADER CHAMISA EMULATES DR KIZZA BESIGYE OF UGANDA. Africa`s {People`s Presidents}: Chamisa to join Odinga, Besigye? Automated Publishing Via Osuta Yusuf Applet Trigger. As Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa embarks on the herculean task of rebuilding the economy, opposition leader Chamisa says there are increasing calls for him to be inaugurated as the people’s president. Chamisa’s party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), says the 2.6 million Zimbabweans who voted for Chamisa in the July 30 election will install him as president on Saturday. Mnangagwa, was confirmed duly elected president by the Constitutional Court, after it dismissed a challenge by Chamisa last month. We are consulting the people on the way forward and next week, we are going to hold our 19th anniversary and our leadership had suggested that we do a swearing-in of the leader who was voted by the people. He then took the oath before the country’s Chief Justice Luke Malaba, as required by the constitution of the country. Section 94 Subsection 1 of the Zimbabwe Constitution stipulates that persons elected as president and vice-presidents assume office when they take, before the Chief Justice or the next most senior judge available, the oaths of president or vice president. ZANU-PF warns Chamisa against treason While ruling party activists have warned against the planned inauguration, saying it would amount to treason, MDC-T presidential spokesperson Dr. Nkululeko Sibanda dismissed them, saying the people of Zimbabwe have the right to install a president of their choice. Chamisa, who held his first rally since the election, told supporters that his party would hold its 19th anniversary at Gwanzura Stadium in Harare on Saturday. “We are consulting the people on the way forward and next week, we are going to hold our 19th anniversary and our leadership had suggested that we do a swearing-in of the leader who was voted by the people,” he said. In an interview with the NewsDay after the rally, Chamisa clarified that the people had actually installed him as president on July 30. ‘‘If you listened to what I said, this is an anniversary, but do you really understand what it means to be installed by the people? We were installed by the people on July 30 and a person is not voted twice,’‘ Chamisa said. If Chamisa goes ahead and takes the symbolic oath on Saturday, he will join the ranks of Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga and Uganda’s Kizza Besigye. Raila Odinga: the People’s president in Kenya Follwoing the disputed presidential elections last year, opposition leader Raila Odinga was sworn-in by his lawyers on January 30. Odinga, who is the self-styled People’s president, was to appoint a People’s Assembly that would constitute a parallel government to the officially recognised one of Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta. The aftermath of the inauguration was costly as several opposition lawmarkers and lawyers were arrested and charged with treason, even as several television stations that broadcast the illegal inauguration were shut down for a week. Odinga’s lawyer, Miguna Miguna, who conducted the inauguration, was deported and has to date been denied re-entry into the country. Odinga eventually reconciled with Kenyatta in the famous March 9 handshake and together they announced the ‘Building Bridges Initiative’ that would champion reconciliation and development among the Kenyan people that had been polarised by the election. Uganda’s defiant Besigye. Following the February 2016 elections, which the opposition said was rigged in favor of President Yoweri Museveni, a video showing the opposition candidate being sworn-in was circulated on social media, on the eve of the official inauguration of Museveni.   Besigye was consequently arrested and airlifted to a remote police cell in the Karamoja region, while social media sites were blocked by the communications regulator. The military and police also deployed heavily in the city and in Moroto district where Besigye was detained. The government of Uganda charged Besigye with treason, accusing him of inciting people to overthrow the government of Uganda and declaring himself president.


Africa`s {People`s Presidents}: Chamisa to join Odinga, Besigye?

Automated Publishing Via Osuta Yusuf Applet Trigger.

As Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa embarks on the herculean task of rebuilding the economy, opposition leader Chamisa says there are increasing calls for him to be inaugurated as the people’s president.

Chamisa’s party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), says the 2.6 million Zimbabweans who voted for Chamisa in the July 30 election will install him as president on Saturday.

Mnangagwa, was confirmed duly elected president by the Constitutional Court, after it dismissed a challenge by Chamisa last month.

We are consulting the people on the way forward and next week, we are going to hold our 19th anniversary and our leadership had suggested that we do a swearing-in of the leader who was voted by the people.


He then took the oath before the country’s Chief Justice Luke Malaba, as required by the constitution of the country.

Section 94 Subsection 1 of the Zimbabwe Constitution stipulates that persons elected as president and vice-presidents assume office when they take, before the Chief Justice or the next most senior judge available, the oaths of president or vice president.

ZANU-PF warns Chamisa against treason

While ruling party activists have warned against the planned inauguration, saying it would amount to treason, MDC-T presidential spokesperson Dr. Nkululeko Sibanda dismissed them, saying the people of Zimbabwe have the right to install a president of their choice.

Chamisa, who held his first rally since the election, told supporters that his party would hold its 19th anniversary at Gwanzura Stadium in Harare on Saturday.

“We are consulting the people on the way forward and next week, we are going to hold our 19th anniversary and our leadership had suggested that we do a swearing-in of the leader who was voted by the people,” he said.

In an interview with the NewsDay after the rally, Chamisa clarified that the people had actually installed him as president on July 30.

‘‘If you listened to what I said, this is an anniversary, but do you really understand what it means to be installed by the people? We were installed by the people on July 30 and a person is not voted twice,’‘ Chamisa said.

If Chamisa goes ahead and takes the symbolic oath on Saturday, he will join the ranks of Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga and Uganda’s Kizza Besigye.

Raila Odinga: the People’s president in Kenya

Follwoing the disputed presidential elections last year, opposition leader Raila Odinga was sworn-in by his lawyers on January 30.

Odinga, who is the self-styled People’s president, was to appoint a People’s Assembly that would constitute a parallel government to the officially recognised one of Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta.

The aftermath of the inauguration was costly as several opposition lawmarkers and lawyers were arrested and charged with treason, even as several television stations that broadcast the illegal inauguration were shut down for a week.

Odinga’s lawyer, Miguna Miguna, who conducted the inauguration, was deported and has to date been denied re-entry into the country.

Odinga eventually reconciled with Kenyatta in the famous March 9 handshake and together they announced the ‘Building Bridges Initiative’ that would champion reconciliation and development among the Kenyan people that had been polarised by the election.

Uganda’s defiant Besigye.

Following the February 2016 elections, which the opposition said was rigged in favor of President Yoweri Museveni, a video showing the opposition candidate being sworn-in was circulated on social media, on the eve of the official inauguration of Museveni.

 

Besigye was consequently arrested and airlifted to a remote police cell in the Karamoja region, while social media sites were blocked by the communications regulator.

The military and police also deployed heavily in the city and in Moroto district where Besigye was detained.

The government of Uganda charged Besigye with treason, accusing him of inciting people to overthrow the government of Uganda and declaring himself president.

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