Lowassa: The Wild Card

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Lowassa, Edward N.

He was assailed with a detrimental scandal enthralling the public and subsequently leading to his derisive abdication.....Richmond scandal awarded him a significant public reproaches and besmirches. Some political commentators even believed he was gone for good.In the aftermath of his relinquishment, a barrage of his associated failures and disapprovals was promulgated by both online and offline channels. To many people he wa unfit for any public position. He then disappeared from the public eye.

Suprisingly out of nowhere, he slowly clawed out of that deep opprobrious cave, splashed out enough cash in PR and against all odds he publicly earn himself the potency of being the ruling party's presidential candidate.

He chose himself a tactial variant Mr. Kingunge as his frontal berth and amassed on his side a host of dimunitive CCM politicians to facilitate his quest for throne. He then gathered a lot of supporters to fan his flames of nomination.

He strategically broke a record by collecting over 800,000 signatures for sponsorship, nevertheless, his striking quest for candidacy was purposefully extinguished in a twinkle of an eye by a committee chaired by the incumbent president..

The Wild Card

Some think he is bigger than the party he never found, some think CCM might miss the boat by ignoring his political clout. I have heard numbers like 5 million 4U movement supporters, 3.5 million from team Lowassa and 2.5million from Youth movement for Edward Lowassa intending to vote for UKAWA instead of CCM. That's a whooping 11 million!!...That's is likely to be a tremendous drop of voters for CCM..What a predicament!!

Is CCM ready for this large exodus of supporters? Is CCM willing to negotiate? Has CCM been brought to its knees?

Lowassa's mouthpiece Mr. Kingunge wont keep quiet and it seems like nobody can't stand in his way, the media on the other side hasn't stopped from speculating...

One thing we know for sure is that this kind of tension emboldens the opposition such that it is highly beneficial to them ahead of the election in three months time.

Despite his fall from grace in Dodoma, Lowassa is still an unprecidented wild card in this year's election..

Posting from Los Angeles, CA, US
 
* Lowassa supporters are important for opposition in that they will win by a great margin....

* However opposition can win without Lowassa's supporters because the opposition has grown stronger this year than any other time....

* I think Lowassa will not say anything that will harm his party, however his silence is negatively impacting CCM...CCM is loosing many supporters on a daily basis....
 

Lowassa has a large number of supporters judging by the crowd he gathered in his various trips seeking sponsors. The only problem was the corruption scandal and I think that's why he was dismissed.

These supporters are going to be important for the opposition if Lowassa stays silent without endorsing Magufuli. If he speak of supporting the chosen CCM candidate then we might see these supporters turning back to CCM.

However it is highly unlikely that he way say anything that supports CCM's nomination and that way the opposition will win if and only if the playing field is levelled.
 
Amanda Lynn


* Lowassa does not have the courage to say anything to kill the party that has made him who he is....on the flip side he is timid to even stop his supporters from going to UKAWA, one, because he is politically paralyzed by the events in Dodoma, two, he never had a real plan B...

* I think the playing field will be forcefully levelled....CCM has a lot of tricks to try to steal an election...but whether they will work this time or not we are yet to see...

* Lowassa is sitting somewhere remotely controlling his supporters...what we know is that he won't support CCM..but we don't know is whether he really intends to punish CCM severely or he has indeed found favour with the opposition...
 
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If you ask me, I don't think his supporters are genuinely looking for change outside CCM as they claim, instead, I think they are up for a revenge and they are ready for the consenquences, even if it means CCM loosing this election.
 
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If you ask me, I don't think his supporters are genuinely looking for change outside CCM as they claim, instead, I think they are up for a revenge and they are ready for the consenquences, even if it means CCM loosing this election.
* Lowassa plus his supporters never had a plan B...to them what happened was totally unexpected...and they are acting angrily to the benefit of the opposition...those millions of votes are trully going to make a huge difference in the opposition's percantage....

* However we don't know whether that anger will continue till the day of the election...I bet these supporters are trully going to vote for the opposition...unless Lowassa endorses Magufuli....
 
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