POLICE yesterday claimed to have uncovered a plot by the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to prematurely announce election results, but the opposition party said this was not true.
The police made the claims to justify the arrest of election observers from the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) and the Election Resource Centre (ERC) for conducting an illegal parallel vote tabulation exercise.
Addressing a Press conference in Harare, police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the ERC and Zesn exercise was part of a wider CCC strategy to announce election results before the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec).
“We are also aware that this was part of some politicians’ strategy, like what was announced by the CCC leader (Nelson Chamisa) that they were going to announce results by August 24, 2023,” Nyathi said.
“This was part of the strategy and we are also aware that the information they were receiving was being co-ordinated by some observers and also some political party agents who were deployed at the polling stations.”
Source My Zimbabwe
