That may bring an anticlimactic closure to once a very promising career in public service which was entangled in personal greed, failure to seize monumental political openings and siding with dark horses at hour of reckoning let alone betraying those who trusted him most in CUF...And beyond!
Let's rummage another option which was not considered earlier suppose NEC sides with CCM proclaiming the errors were not of fundamental nature and disallow the complaint?
If CDM feel there's double standard when their candidates were disqualified in similar circumstances of parliamentary and councillorship expect a high court litigation to vigorously ensue....
While we can not speculate how the courts will adjudge the matter because we lack the issues to ruminate but political ramifications will be difficult to ignore
One, you need to give the AG a ninety days notice which by the time the deadline is reached we will have the election behind us and few will be interested to disturb with the outcome beyond refining the principles of overriding objectives which will make it harder to dislodge any candidate on technicality of filling forms
This in itself will still be a remarkable step forward because unless we cease from depriving voters from electing our leaders on technicality grounds we stand to lose the meaning of elections...
If this is true then the independence of the election commission is on the dock...Will they respect the election law or their appointer?
In Bumbuli constituency, the immediate MP is gloating that his chief opponent didn't include passport sized photos according to the regulations...so he has asked NEC to spare him of punishing election cycle by declaring him a winner by default...
In Morogoro NEC has disqualified the opposition in lesser election offences than this...
In other constituency cited here, opposition candidate have been disqualified for having four names in their forms...so NEC has its hands full....can they display an element of bias to favour their appointer or will respect the rule of law and its norms and practice which is essentially to uphold the rule of law...
If this is true then the lapses NEC is dealing with are no longer minor lapses but lapses of fundamental nature..
If election supervisors from certain constituencies not NEC commissioners at NEC HQ verified and ratified his election forms containing a raft of endorsements from across the ten regions as required by the election laws then the issue of jurisdiction of the supervisors in a presidential election crops up...its hydra head in such an unexpected circumstances....
Issues of violations of jurisdiction are not minor lapses but lapses of fundamental nature because if it is true president Magufuli didn't submit a list of endorsers to the NEC for verification and ratification as required by the election laws then CCM have no candidate vying for president and no court of law let alone NEC can bail him out but again we still need to hear from the other side to get their view before making any drastic judgement in this very politically polarising election dispute....