When a very senior assistant to the chair of Tanzania's ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), comes up with some explanation of why that party failed to observe the stricture that election campaigns should not kick off before parliament winds up its business, people will listen, and this time they did.
The issue was, apparently, an explanation as to why the ruling party had not followed its own rules governing the process of naming a presidential candidate, which requires that a national electoral conference be called with the specific agenda of electing one member who will be the presidential candidate.
