In the 1995 polls supporters of the CCM President Salmin Amour rigged the votes when it looked as if Seif Shariff Hamad of the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) would win...
Zanzibar's Attorney General Mohamed Ali Omar had insisted he could not proceed with the case unless eight more CUF leaders including Vice-Chairperson Seif Shariff Hamad and Secretary General Shabaan Mloo were also arrested...
The Zanzibari opposition Civic United Front led by Seif Shariff Hamad refused to accept that result...
Civic United Front leader Seif Shariff Hamad also detected movement...
Its leader Seif Shariff Hamad of the Civic United Front does little to ease the workings of democracy...
Immediately after the announcement of the (rigged) results of the last elections on 26 October the opposition leader Seif Shariff Hamad said that the new President would be 'very oppressive' in defence of his 'illegally elected government'...
