No to West’s death warrant

House of Assembly, senatorial and local government elections.
Voters elect Morgan Tsvangirai as the president and his MDC-T as the majority party in Parliament. 
What will this mean?
It will mean Zimbabweans will have signed a blank cheque and handed it over to the British, the Americans and their Western allies.
Why?
Because from what we all know, the MDC formations are a creation of the West. Western leaders have openly said this in the British Parliament, and from all sorts of public forums.
But recent revelations from WikiLeaks give our situation a new and disturbing twist.
Former US ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell did a sterling job in his exposure of the puerile nature of the MDC-T. Dell, in his cable releases, condemned the MDC-T and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai outright as a unit that is completely incompetent to run Zimbabwe were they to find themselves in this position. In Dell’s words, the MDC-T leaders would need massive handholding, the key word being MASSIVE.
The only complimentary attribute Tsvangirai earned from Christopher Dell was that he is “brave”, though we know better given his wartime escapade, and thus he was the only politician who could be used by the Anglo-US alliance to topple President Mugabe in the West’s bid for regime change in Zimbabwe.
Otherwise Tsvangirai is a flawed figure, who with his MDC-T, lack executive authority and capacity.
Were the MDC-T to assume executive authority they would need massive hand holding by the Americans. Dell suggests in the event that the MDC-T wins the election they (the US) would have to look elsewhere in the Diaspora for a capable Zimbabwean to run the country.
This is where the issue of a blank cheque Zimbabwe will have signed for the Anglo-US alliance arises. Who will that leader be?  And will Zimbabweans be in a position to know him/her before the elections?
Where will Tsvangirai have gone? Retired, fired or just liquidated?
But this would not be the first time the US would face such a situation in Africa. I will refer readers to the December 2009 issue of New African magazine.
In an article on page 10 headed “The Masters at Work?” The magazine quoted an autobiography by a Nigerian lawyer, Dele Ogun, who in his work touches on the deaths of Chief Moshood Abiola and the then president San Abacha in the 1990s.  New African quoted the lawyer as querying whether General Sani Abacha and chief M.K.O Abiola really died of natural causes, or were deliberately, taken out by the “masters of the universe” in order to pave the way for their chosen candidate.
“In mid-1998 two heart attacks within one month, according to the official version, took away two of Nigeria’s most colourful politicians Gen Abacha and Chief Abiola the man who won the 1993  presidential election but was prevented from taking power by General Ibrahim Babangida’s military government. The circumstances of the duo’s deaths could not have been more suspicious.”
Chief Abiola had been in jail for four years prior to his death, for defying Babangida and proclaiming himself president based on the 1993 election result.
“General Abacha, on the other hand, had overthrown the interim government that took over from Babangida’s regime,  and until his death had succeeded in making himself the most hated military president that, ever walked the corridors of Nigeria’s  State House.”
Abiola, on the other hand, had called for reparations by the West over slavery. Abiola in his 1992 speech had said our demand for reparations is based on the tripod of moral, historic and legal arguments.
“Who knows what path Africa’s social development would have taken if our great centres of civilisation had not been razed in search of human cargo? Who knows how our economies would have developed?
“It is international law which compels Nigeria to pay its debts to Western banks and international institutions. It is international law which must now demand that Western nations pay us what, they have owed us for nearly six centuries,” Abiola had said.
New Africa says: “The masters then dispatched in late May 1998, one of Africa’s most illustrious sons then resident in New York to tell Abiola that, whether he liked it or not, he could not become president of Nigeria despite winning the 1993 election.’’
A week later a high-powered American diplomatic delegation arrived from Washington to reinforce the message to Abiola. He was still meeting the Americans when he was said to have had a seizure and died suddenly.
Gen Abacha died on June 7 1998 followed by Chief Abiola, who died a month later on July 7 1998. The cause of death in both cases was given as heart attacks.
Three years earlier Delle Ogun, who had been invited on a six-state tour of the US by the US embassy in London, met a former US ambassador to Nigeria in Washington.
The two got down to discussing possible successors to President Babangida. When Mr Ogum restricted himself to the two men Abacha, and Abiola, the former ambassador asked Ogun tersely: “Supposing the two of them weren’t there, who would you see as a possible successor?
Ogun says: “I proceeded to throw up some names from the different competing power sectors in Nigeria that could be pooled together to form such a government.
“The one name that I did not mention was the one that the ‘masters of the universe had in mind: General Olusegun Abasanjo.
“What of Obasanjo,” (the ambassador) asked “What do you think of him?”
In the face of all this evidence Ogun poses the question: “We (in Africa) may physically elect our leaders but do we really choose them?”
This is typical of the sort of set-up the US has in mind for Zimbabwe.
In short, Dell suggests: “although Tsvangirai is incapable of running Zimbabwe, let’s just use his ‘bravery’ in our fight for regime change”.
“Once that is achieved, then that is that, we get rid of him. Of course, we should not worry about the rest of the MDC-T leadership, they are all dummies.”
But the big question is will Zimbabweans be all that dumb as to be used to sign their death warrant? Ishe kana mambo haasarudzwe nevatorwa.
Pascal Mukondiwa is a former editor of The Sunday Mail.