TUNDU LISSU
REV. PETER MSIGWA
THE Singida East Member of Parliament (MP), Tundu
Lissu said the chances of Chadema winning parliamentary seat in Iringa Urban
Constituency are higher concerning to the number of votes the party got during
the last year civic polls.
Lissu made the announcement on Tuesday when he was
speaking to the multitude of Iringa Urban Constituency residents during the
public rally held at Mlandege Bus Station in the municipality.
He said that the possibilities of Iringa Urban
Member of Parliament Rev. Peter Msigwa (Chadema) returning back to parliament
during the forthcoming general elections were high by just comparing the results
in the last year civic elections.
He pointed out that Chama cha Demokrasia na
Maendeleo (Chadema) scooped more than 18,000 votes against Chama Cha Mapinduzi
(CCM) who got 14,700 votes out the total of 33,597 votes last year.
“These results clearly showed us that we have the
additional voters of about 4200 and this is a good capital for us start from this
year. The total number of people registered during the local government
election in Iringa town last year was 45,216 but there were only 33,597 voted,”
he elaborated.
He said that that was a simple mathematics everyone
can get that Chadema in Iringa was better position of getting the whole
municipal council when election comes by just looking at the statistics of last
year civic elections.
He said that Chadema and other opposition parties,
the so called UKAWA have moved a step forward by scooping 66 seats out of the
total of designated 192 seats in Iringa town.
“This is great achievement of the opposition, which
is arising from ashes of one seat in 2009 to 66 seats last year. This means
that people have faith in us and they wants change but just a reminder that the
road to redemption and salvation is not easy it needs sacrifice,” he said.
On the other hand, Lissu has argued the residents of
Iringa to come in great numbers and register as voters in the ongoing Biometric
Voters Registration (BVR) in Iringa region conducted by National Electoral
Commission.
He said without doing so it will be meaningless to
attend political rallies because at the end the day you will not able to participate
in the forthcoming general elections without voter cards in your hands.
“As you know this is an election year, so every
eligible voter must make sure he/she goes for registration even though he/she
is in hospital and elsewhere they must brought for registration so that we can
vote out CCM out of power because it has failed to deliver,” he said.
In another development, Iringa Regional
Commissioner, Amina Masenza has called on religious leaders to encourage
believers and all people to register and ordered them to come in mass for
registration.
she said that people who will be registered are all
citizens who never enroll earlier, those attained the age of 18 years or older
and those who for various reasons have not been registered including those who
will attained the age of 18 by election day, that is October 2015.
Iringa Region is expected to register a total of
646,575 voters in the permanent register of voters by using a new system known
as the Biometric Voters Registration (BVR) and at least 1,192 registration
centres have been established.
BVR is a sophisticated device that is used to make
plastic voter cards using the computer and printer by taking fingerprints,
signatures and photography for the quality of a high standard to avoid
potential voters to register more than once.
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