Own Correspondent|Zimbabwe’s Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi has embarrassingly tried to discredit the widely praised Malawian Constitutional Court ruling on last year’s elections.

The World has overwhelmingly praised the judges throwing doubt at the credibility of the SADC observer mission which declared the elections free and fair.

In a highly uniformed Tweet on Tuesday, Mutodi said the SADC Observer Missions did not have the evidence of rigging when they pronounced the 2019 elections as free and credible.

Speaking a day after the the High Court of Malawi issued a court order nullifying the results Mutodi said,

“The basis for the nullification of Malawian Presidential results is the use of tippex to alter figures on election results forms. Such a practice is unprecedented and we believe Election Observer Missions did not have such evidence when they ruled the election credible.”

The court however made very little reference to the “tipex” issue in its judgement throwing in a number of factors that led to its decision to call for a rerun of the election.