NASA should focus on winning rather than scuttling the elections

Just weeks to the repeat presidential election rescheduled for October 26, we are still uncertain about how the election will unfold. While Jubilee has gone back to the campaign trail in search for votes, NASA is adamant that there will be no election unless their list of demands is attended to. The IEBC, faced with a herculean task of delivering an almost perfect election has gone back to the drawing board to improve their processes. To their credit, they have made tremendous effort to meet with both sides of the political divide often without much success.

NASA has called for street demonstrations against IEBC which they say they do not have confidence in to conduct a free and fair election. Part of their demands is for CEO, Ezra Chiloba, to resign or be fired. The man has refused to leave and his Chairman has given no indication that he plans to fire him. Mr Chiloba’s statement this week that the court relied on ‘fake documents’ to nullify the election indicate that the man will not go down without a fight.