Former Botswana president Ian Khama says Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is illegitimate due to her recent election under a cloud of political repression, detention of opposition rivals, electoral fraud, violence and killings.
Khama, who always speaks truth to power without fear or favour, said:
“The recent election in Tanzania and from what transpired, the killings around the election… I for once do not recognise the person who was inaugurated as the President of Tanzania. She is an illegitimate president.
It is totally unacceptable when an African leader, in order to stay in power, will resort to killing his or her own people. In order to stay in power, they will rig an election, as if they are God’s gift to their country.
When you have a country with millions of people, for any leader to think they are the only ones who can be president is pathetic.”
