Former President Jakaya Kikwete Dar es Salaam.The ruling party, CCM, has said former President Jakaya Kikwete’s statement on the need for African governments to give political space to opposition parties had no reference whatever to Tanzania. Discussing a paper presented on Good Governance and Rule of Law at the Leadership Forum 2017 in Johannesburg last month, Kikwete called upon African governments not to consider opposition parties as the enemy but as partners in democracy and therefore. But the CCM Ideology and Publicity secretary Humphrey Polepole told PoliticalPlatform during an exclusive interview that Mr Kikwete’s comments were not a reflection of what is going on in Tanzania. If the message was intended for Tanzania, according to Mr Polepole, he would have delivered it here. “That’s why Mr Kikwete chose an international platform. There was no need for him to address democracy issue in ...
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