What we have Learned after two losing factions inside CCM lose to Chadema ?

You would hardly believe that this is happening within the same party that Julius Nyerere founded.

Inaugurating the CCM campaign three weeks ago, former president Benjamin Mkapa announced that he was going to advise President Kikwete to undertake land reform in Meru. Mr Mkapa said that the land reform will see the seizure of big tracts of land owned by rich individuals and their transfer to poor, landless people on the slopes of the Mount Meru.

Chadema’s flag bearer in hotly contested by-election, Joshua Nasari, has vowed to repossess land if elected.

The outcome of the by-election is also likely to be a gamechanger in Tanzania’s land policy as politicians have put land redistribution at the top of their agenda in the Arumeru East campaigns, which could see large tracts of land owned by big horticultural investors seized and reallocated to poor households.

Within his own CCM party, President Jakaya Kikwete –– who is set to pick a team to spearhead the constitutional reforms — faces opposition as some party heavyweights are said to be opposed to the political reforms. The divisions are likely to grow as the 2015 elections approach.

Needless to say, the poison secreted by these mindless squabbles — in Arusha and elsewhere — will find its way into the body politic.

Indeed the talk has been of poison — as in poison — these recent months, with senior officials of the government bandying around claims of some elements within the ruling clique having poisoned others in attempts at physical elimination.

So, come polling day, in a week’s time, one of the two parties will win election.