Robert Fisk, the fortune teller

"But, having covered parliamentary and presidential elections in Cairo for more than four decades, I thought I'd have a crack at Field Marshal/President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's victorious results a week before the election was actually held. Since he picked up more than 96 per cent in previous polls, I reported in The Independent: "I have a hunch it will be somewhere between 93.73 per cent and 97.37 per cent for the President..." (thanks Basim)