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Now the partial results are flooding in and at the current time incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi is winning in a landslide. The 20th December 2023 polls have been marred with irregularities, called chaotic and a charade. When you know that…
Whatever results and announced victor of the Presidential Elections would be questioned. There is no denial in that. In that chaos and mismanagement, which was pre-planned and prepared for the polls. That was all done to ensure the victory and secure a second term for Tshisekedi.
The ones believing otherwise haven’t followed the program. Tshisekedi is using the tricks of old and don’t mind doing so. Because, he knows and we knows he cannot win in a free and fair fight. He lost in 2018 and wouldn’t win now either.
The ones that has fate in the enterprise and elections haven’t followed this before. We are seeing sins being repeated and we are supposed to believe that Fatshi or Tshisekedi was the popular one. Like the incumbent had a record or the ability to gain such numbers over one term. When he barely scraped the barrel in 2018.
That’s why he did wheeler-dealing and created the CACH-FCC agreement in the first place. This was how he got to office and got ahead. Not because the public wanted him, but his luck by striking a deal with Kabila. That’s all it took and we are supposed to forget that?
Really?
We are in 2023… but we cannot forget that short after. It isn’t like ancient history or far beyond recent past. No, it is was just back in 2018 and we have the ramifications of that in 2023. The whole term has been distancing himself from allies and align himself with people who will not defy him. That’s what his been busy doing and not building “unity” or anyting.
No, Tshisekedi won’t let the nation prosper. Neither will the nation feel any difference. It will be more of the same. The insecurities and the insurgencies will continue. The private armies and paramilitary groups will have power. They will matter and the FARDC will be overstretched. There will be loopholes and possibility for others to gain on the lack of control. That’s what is up for grabs and this President has no functioning tools to sufficiently eradicate it. If not… there is no will to stop it.
That’s why this flawed election isn’t making things better. This whole scenario and election could have been pre-written and the numbers announced guessed months ahead. It is just like it was prepared and now the authorities are just running through the motions. There is no shockers or surprises. Only more of the same… and we are to believe that to be true.
Alas, Tshisekedi might fool a few, but he shouldn’t be able to fool a nation. He was lucky in 2018, but now it is another beast. It’s his appointees and his people running the show. That’s why its all his advantage and for him to enjoy the spoils. The protocols are being fulfilled and soon he can swear himself in. Just like anyone else who uses elections to legitimize their own reign. Peace.



