CHADEMA Yazidi Kuitafuna Familia Ya Wasira

Two daughters of CCM staunch member and senior cabinet minister Steven Wassira have joined the leading opposition party Chadema, a move that is translated as a total revolt in relation to political loyalties of their father.

Lilian Wassira and Esther Wassira joined Chadema yesterday in Dar es Salaam before reporters, after which they told reporters that they never bothered what other members of the family would say about their decision.

This is not the first time people whose families are deeply steeped in CCM join opposition parties, after the more celebrated case in 1995 when Makongoro Nyerere kept shouting epithets against his father, winning the Arusha Urban parliamentary seat while Mwalimu Nyerere combated NCCR-Mageuzi presidential candidate Augustine Mrema.

Steven Wassira himself in 1995 defected to NCCR-Mageuzi and contested in the Bunda parliamentary election.

Despite winning the seat he came to lose in a court ruling after a petition filed by CCM candidate Joseph Warioba, a former prime minister, in the High Court.

Speaking to reporters, Esther Wassira, a lawyer from Amicus Attorneys said that she saw the future of Tanzania being heralded by the opposition party, Chadema.

However she said that there were a lot of things the ruling party has done well but they need to make some changes instead of having the same policy everyday with little impact on the public.

She argued that there was a need of seeing changes and development in the country by giving a chance to other parties such as Chadema to lead, as it was the only party that strives for change in the country.

According to Esther Wassira, it was meaningless for Tanzania which adopted multiparty politics in 1992 to be ruled by the same party. He said the youth should come out to support Chadema instead of complaining about lack of change.

On her part, Lilian Wassira, also a lawyer, affirmed that joining Chadema was not a family matter. “I am ready for everything no matter what, because I see Chadema fighting for Tanzanians,” she declared.