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By Takudzwa Changadeya
Former Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has extensively reproached a recent independent survey showing opposition party leader Nelson Chamisa could defeat incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the forthcoming elections describing it as a “phoney survey” creating fake hope.
The survey was done in January for The Brenthurst Foundation by independent London-based research group SABI Strategy using an an in-depth 15-minute questionnaire.
According to the survey, if Zimbabwean elections were to be held now, Chamisa would garner 53% of the vote, Mnangagwa 40% and other parties 7%.
Writing on Twitter, Moyo said :
“London’s allegedly independent ‘Sabi Strategy Group’ paid to do the phoney ‘PHONE SURVEY’, it fraudulently presented as ‘FIELDWORK’, as it smiled to the bank with dirty Oppenheimer money is in fact a partner of Brenthurst Foundation, and is thus not independentat all. Phoney!”.
He also said pining hope on the survey done on 1 000 registered voters is a fatal desperation as it lacks objectivity.
“IT’S A FATAL DESPERATION to pin hopes on a phoney ‘PHONE SURVEY’ of ‘1,000 registered voters’ in Zim done from London by a group paid by Brenthurst Foundation, founded and funded by the meddlesome Oppenheimer family! “, he added.
Asked which presidential candidate they would vote for in the upcoming elections, 53 percent of the registered voters indicated that they would vote for Chamisa while 40 percent would vote for the incumbent and 7 percent for other presidential candidates.
In the parliamentary vote, CCC would win by 52 percent while Zanu PF would garner 40 percent of the vote. Other parties would would win 8 percent.
In the previous election, Mnangagwa polled 50.8 percent of the votes, compared to 44.3 percent for Chamisa.
In the parliamentary elections, Zanu PF got 144 seats while the MDC Alliance got 64.
