By Given Mutinta
MASTER DRIBBLER: PRESIDENT HICHILEMA TURNS TO VERNON MWAANGA TO HELP RIG THE ELECTIONS
In the shadowy corridors of power, where electoral justice is supposed to shine its light, a drama unfolds.
According to a very reliable source, President Hakainde Hichilema, cornered by the relentless exposure of his tactics to rig the August election, turned to a legendary architect of electoral cunning—Vernon Mwaanga, famously dubbed the “Master Dribbler” within the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) circles.
He has received formal education in the United States on the subject of election rigging.
This is not just a story of political strategy; it is a masterstroke of deception that reveals how votes can be twisted like clay to shape unchallenged dominion.
When Mwaanga arrived, he found himself face-to-face with the intelligence chief and the electoral commission’s staff—key players in the game where power hinges on clever subterfuge.
President Hichilema confided his dilemma: every scheme to rig the election was being exposed before public eyes, threatening his grip on power.
Mwaanga’s response echoed with cold precision: the battleground to successfully rig the August election is the polling station itself.
At the heart of this deception lies —the G20 form, used to tabulate votes at the polling station.
The strategy is brilliant in its audacity. Polling staff are trained to enter vote tallies in both numerals and words format.
Mwaanga’s instruction was to exploit a blank space deliberately left to the left of the numerical figures.
For instance, a legitimate 8,000 votes might be recorded as just that in numerals, but the words would say “eighteen thousand.”
He said that this discrepancy will not be noticed by polling station agents because they only focus on numerals not words.
Once the signatures are secured from all polling station representatives, the polling officer revisits the numeric section to insert the critical digit “1” in the empty space, transforming “8,000” into “18,000.”
This sinister edit leaves no visible trace of tampering because it happens within the blank margin predating the endorsements, effectively legitimizing the inflated figure.
The altered but officially signed G20 form then proceeds to the tallying center in Lusaka, where the corrupted data appears consistent and indisputable.
Mwaanga’s method does not just falsify numbers; it manufactures a narrative—a carefully constructed facade where fraud masquerades as authenticity.
The genius lies in the subtlety; the forms’ integrity appears intact, consensus is seemingly genuine, and the electoral outcome is twisted without triggering suspicion.
Through such manipulation, President Hichilema’s power was going to be propped up, a fragile empire upheld by ink and invisible margins.
Mwaanga’s strategy shows how democratic processes can be undermined by cunning and craft which made MMD stay in power for 20 years.
This rigging will not work as it has been exposed and measures put in place to counter it.
This is a stark warning to Brian Mundubile and Makebi Zulu that vigilance through robust vote protection is the guardian against the hidden hands that seek to rewrite the will of the people.
In the theater of elections, sometimes the most dangerous battles are fought not in public view, but in the silent margins of paperwork at the polling station.