Nape: Rigging is out of question

 If CCM is assured of winning the election, why then should the 24 million eligible voters go to the poll come October?     

How Rigging of Elections in Africa Takes Place
AllAfrica.com
According to Daily Monitor (October 30), Tanzania's Opposition presidential election loser Edward Lowassa, accusing the electoral body of falsifying tallies, rejected the results which gave victory to CCM. By the same token, the violence-ridden ruling ...

>A day after Zanzibar’s First Vice President, Mr Seif Sharrif Hamad, raised a red flag over what his party, CUF, claimed was a plot to rig the October elections in favour of the ruling CCM, Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) has hit back, saying the CUF leader was deliberately misleading the public.

CCM nomination polls in Tarime postponed over rigging allegations
Daily News
CCM nomination polls for parliamentary and councillor posts in Tarime rural and Tarime urban constituencies were on Saturday postponed after many ballot papers were allegedly caught already voted in favour of some candidates. “The polls have been ...

Tanzania’s ruling party candidate has been declared the winner of a controversial presidential election marred by claims of vote rigging and fears of violence.John Magufuli, nicknamed “the bulldozer” for his track record as works minister, won 58.46% of the vote, compared with 39.97% for his main rival, Edward Lowassa.“I duly declare John Pombe Magufuli to have been duly elected president of the United Republic of Tanzania,” the head of the electoral commission, Damian Lubuva, said on...

CUF's Sharif Hamad alleges election rigging in Zanzibar
IPPmedia
The Civic United Front (CUF) presidential candidate, Seif Sharif Hamad, yesterday alleged vote rigging in some polling stations and threatened to reject the results. Hamad, who said he was confident of winning by 72 maintained that his party will not ...

The CUF secretary general and Zanzibar presidential aspirant, Mr Seif Sharif Hamad, has warned the ruling party, CCM, that they won’t tolerate rigging in the October General Election.

ACT-Wazalendo presidential candidate Anna Mghwira has allayed fears of vote rigging in the forthcoming General Election, accusing those who claim to have lost trust in the electoral system of fueling breach of peace.

*The former banker becomes first person to be convicted by a British jury of rigging Libor rates.

Trader Tom Hayes, foreground, arrives with his wife Sarah, at Southwark Crown Court, in London, Wednesday, May 27, 2015.(Photo: AP).

Marion Dakers, Tim Wallace and agencies

City trader Tom Hayes, 35, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after becoming the first person to be convicted by a British jury of rigging Libor rates following a trial at London’s Southwark Crown Court.

The jury...