Leaked WhatsApp Group Messages Expose Nelson Chamisa, CCC’s Failure To Learn From 2018 Election Mistakes
Three days after claiming to possess all V11s, Nelson Chamisa is now urgently appealing to “whoever” has access to MPs for assistance in completing his V11 data set.
The leaked WhatsApp message was shared by Jonathan Moyo. It reads,
Hon Timba Forwarded Whoever has access to all the MPs, please tell them to bring ALL V11s, V23Bs, and V23As (ward level). Not enough emphasis has been placed on V23As in my view. We need all these docs to complete our data set.
Leaked CCC WhatsApp Chats Expose Failure to Address 2018 Election Errors
In another social media post that was shared by Moyo, a senior leader of the Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) party has reportedly made a stunning admission regarding the party’s lack of V11s and V23s from the polling stations used by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in the recent Harmonised Elections.
CCC leader Nelson Chamisa had previously asserted that the party possessed the V11 and V23B forms, which allegedly displayed different results from those used by ZEC to declare President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the winner.
However, the leaked WhatsApp message from the senior CCC official contradicts Chamisa’s statements and undermines the party’s position.
The message states that there were no V11s and V23s in 2018 due to a lack of polling agents in many polling stations.
The CCC supposedly recognized this issue and implemented measures to establish branches at all polling stations for the 2023 elections.
The WhatsApp message reveals that the CCC decided to abandon the polling station-based branches in January 2022, effectively nullifying their efforts to secure V11s and V23s for the 2023 elections.
The official acknowledges that this setback puts them in a similar position to that of 2018, and suggests that the ruling party, ZANU PF, is aware of this vulnerability.
The message concludes by dismissing any claims to the contrary as intended for internal purposes only.
Reads the message:
There were no V11s and no V23s in 2018 because we didn’t have polling agents in many many polling stations.
We recognised this at the Gwelu Congress and adopted the polling station-based branches to ensure that by 2023 we would have branches at ALL polling stations so that through those branches we would have polling agents at all the polling stations.
In or about January 2022 we jettisoned and abandoned all structures including the polling station-based branches already formed and to be formed and hence destroyed the “vaccine” we thought we had created for the lack of V11s and V23s we had experienced in 2018.
Because of this, the fact is that in 2023 we are back to 2018 and ZANU PF knows it. Anything you hear to the contrary is for internal obvious purposes.