Other politicians in Zanzibar too have used the mainland as a trump card either to crush their opponents or to climb the political ladder. Seif Shariff Hamad, Khatib Hassan, Shaaban Mloo and others accused Jumbe in 1984 of planning to break up the union, and thus forced Jumbe to resign from his political posts then. They in turn faced the same accusation from their opponents in 1988 and were dismissed from the party. The issues that were raised in both the 1983/84 and 1990/92 debates centred on the following:
Kumbuka huku Tanganyika kuna zaidi ya Wazanzibari 300,000 wahamiaji na zaidi ya 1,000,000 ambao ni vizazi vyao ama wenye nasaba za Kizanzibari. Wengi wao ni Wapemba. Hawa wakilazimika robo tu kurudi Zanzibar sijui hizo social and economic pressures mtazihandle vipi na zaidi wakizaliana nao Zanzibar itakuwa kama Rwanda kwa kukosa ardhi ya kutosha na hivyo itaongezea chachu ya siasa za chuki miongoni mwenu na kamwe Zanzibar haitaweza kustabilize na kujiendeleza Kiuchumi.