Morgan Tsvangirai is a power junkie

Can we liken power to hard drugs like cocaine and heroin? I think we should: Both hard drugs and power are highly addictive and you start off using just a little and your intake increases gradually until you are an addict who will do anything to support his/her habit. Power is worse than hard drugs actually: Power comes with an attachment called EGO and that's a very underrated and destructive thing. 

            Drug addicts are known to sell very valuable belongings for a tiny fraction of their worth just for a quick fix. When a drug addict has sold off all of his/her possessions he/she resorts to stealing other people’s possessions to support his/her drug habit. If a drug addict sells me his 32” LCD television for $20 does the deal not stand? It is not fair deal admittedly, but it is a valid deal. The fact that the television was sold by a drug addict who was desperate for a quick fix and failed to see that he was conducting a business transaction that was not fair to him/her is neither here nor there.

            Morgan Tsvangirai sold the entire country to support his power addiction and now he wants to reverse the deal. The situation a drug addict is in when he sells his possessions for a song is exactly the same situation Morgan Tsvangirai was in during the period leading up to the elections. Didn’t Morgan Tsvangirai say, “We need discipline. Imi mbuya imi kana musina discipline sudurukai. Tinoda vanhu vanoteerera kana vakuru vachitaura,” (Old woman move aside if you don’t have discipline, we want people who listen when elders are speaking) in response to a challenge regarding the imposition of Dr Simba Makoni to stand on the party’s ticket in Makoni Central. And on being asked what he would do if he lost the elections, Morgan Tsvangirai said it was impossible for him to lose.

            Morgan Tsvangirai is a power junkie and he failed to negotiate a good deal for himself and the country in his moments of desperation to get a quick power fix. In his desperation for power Morgan Tsvangirai accepted a deal without media reforms, adequate time for voter registration and inspection of the voters’ roll, he accepted a deal without the controversial security sector reforms. Morgan Tsvangirai accepted a deal without provision of an electronic copy of the voters’ roll. He thought only of himself and how powerful he was going to be when he became the president of the republic of Zimbabwe; just like a cocaine addict who sells a house for a thousand dollars to buy a day’s worth of drugs. And unfortunately for Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDCs, the deal stands because he signed off on it and he should stop being a cry baby and check himself into a rehabilitation center – in the form of a luxury cruise with a 20 year-old woman.

            In his desperation for power, Morgan Tsvangirai forgot that he was not only selling out himself but the entire country and now he wants us to help him wiggle out of a deal he signed off on. Unless there is compelling evidence of the poll being ‘rigged’ on the 31^st of July, anything that happened before then does not count because Morgan Tsvangirai agreed to it and with the inflated ego of a power junkie he walked into a trap that Robert Mugabe had elaborately set for him. May he please step aside so that we can move on?

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