Zimbabweans React To Mnangagwa’s Twitter Poll Victory

An article in the government-controlled Herald today celebrated Mnangagwa’s positive approval ratings from 2 Twitter polls run by Studio 7 Voice of America and ZimLive. Both polls showed that more than 51% of the votes approved of the direction that the president is taking the country.

Some Twitter users have however accused the president’s supporters of buying twitter votes (which apparently cost about $1 for a 100) to rig the polls.

Here are some select social media reactions to the apparent Mnangagwa victory in the “polls”:

 

The outcome of the poll!

The people have spoken 🚶🏽‍♂️🚶🏽‍♂️🚶🏽‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/PhsDL96un7

— mmatigari (@matigary) June 8, 2019

Paid twitter and their paid twitter polls never cease to amaze me.

If you spent as much energy on building the country instead of propaganda and devising schemes to nick people’s money, maybe this country would be somewhere.

— Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 (@advocatemahere) June 8, 2019

Mnangagwa BUYS @Twitter approval ratings @HeraldZimbabwe 8 June 2019

Shemu maningi!
https://t.co/tdzHKu2uqs pic.twitter.com/kJT5qrgHtq

— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 8, 2019

 

 

 

This is desperation writ large. You rig an election, then a poll and then claim both prove your popularity in the face of monumental failure and policy delinquency. https://t.co/vsjkAprLpR

— David Coltart (@DavidColtart) June 8, 2019

 

The ZanuPF activist @TichZindoga masquerading as a journalist is not even embarrassed to put this in the front page . 😂 pic.twitter.com/COHt7xu0zT

— Privilege MUFC 🇾🇪 (@privilege_mufc) June 8, 2019

 

https://twitter.com/wesbeal/status/1137366740579553281

 

https://twitter.com/Mathuthu/status/1136985608222584834

The only person who can buy Twitter Votes is the person who started the poll.

Zimbabweans must learn to research.

Zanu PF didn't start those Twitter polls & thus couldn't rig it.@Mathuthu , @ProfJNMoyo , @advocatemahere , don't embarrass yourself… Just shush

— 𝑲𝒖𝒅𝒛𝒂𝒊 𝑴𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒊 (@KMutisi) June 8, 2019

 

https://twitter.com/PatsonDzamara/status/1137386902049435649