The series of dramas that have played out on the Tanzanian political scene has been fascinating, and most of them seem to suggest that now the ruling party’s chiefs are as much at each other’s throats as much as they are at the throat of Chadema, the principal opposition .
At the centre of the political beehive of our type of governance architecture there reigns the president who is the Alpha and Omega of all that goes down, who decides and gives directions on all that he/she knows and is interested in, and what he/she says is law. That is what commentators, pundits and analysts have called the “imperial presidency”, which Julius Nyerere bequeathed onto his country in 1985 and, which has held sway till now.
