Hopes have been rekindled with the announcement that Simba Makoni is in the running for the presidency today in Harare.
Zimdaily.com sent fevers to dizzying heights across the diaspora with the news. The paper quotes him as saying,
“Following very extensive and intensive consultations with party members and activists countrywide and also with others outside the party, I have accepted the call and hereby advise the people of Zimbabwe that I offer myself as candidate for the office of president,”
Its a decision many have been hoping he would make, considering how the maverick politician has managed to strike s pose of calm and sanity amid the chaos and decay that has been Zimbabwean Politics over the past decades.
A lot will attest to Makoni's calm demeanour and level headedness. He has, for long being the level and dashing young boy of Zimbabwean politics who has weathered the storms and not grown the precarious pouch of political greed and economic flatulance. His handling of economic policy, for what it was worth comes highly recommended.
He is adept to the cries of the people. “Let me confirm that I share the agony and anguish of all citizens over the extreme hardships that we all have endured for nearly 10 years now. I also share the widely held view that these hardships are a result of failure of national leadership and that change at that level is a pre-requisite for change at other levels of national endeavor.” he says through the same paper.
It would be mischieveous for Zimdaily and its sources to play tricks on us. this kind of joy cannot be too good to be true now!
I just pray THEY dont get him involved in a nasty accident. If he is still alive by the time we get to the polls, I will ask leave from them that give me money here; I will pack my bags right here, set them aside for safekeeping till I return, and then I will leave;
