Former minister of State for Masvingo Province, Kudakwashe
Bhasikiti, has dumped his allies Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa and is now
pleading to rejoin Zanu PF.
“I have always loved to work for my party and serve the
people of Zimbabwe through the party’s original ideals,” said Bhasikiti in a
letter to the Zanu PF deputy secretary for administration July Moyo.
The maverick politician, who was expelled from Zanu PF
along with former vice president Joice Mujuru in 2014, is currently of no fixed
political abode after falling out with his allies amid allegations that he is
“power hungry.”
However, for the former Mwenezi East legislator, his days
in the wilderness were largely because he had fallen out of grace with former
president Robert Mugabe, who resigned from his post last week.
“The removal of the G40 cabal and the removal of the one
centre of power from Zanu PF gives me enough confidence to revert to my party
and continue to fight for the total emancipation of our people in our people
driven party Zanu PF. My motivation is to remain a servant of the people in a
party that I have served for the greater part of my life,” said Bhasikiti in
the letter.
And just to prove to the powers-that-be in Zanu PF,
Bhasikiti in his letter said he even dragged Mugabe to court contesting his
“unjust expulsion” from the ruling party.
“It is common knowledge and on public record that I had to
take former first secretary...Mugabe to the Supreme Court contesting this
unceremonious and unconstitutional expulsion of my person from the party I
joined in 1976 at a tender age as a war collaborator till my expulsion in March
2015,” the letter reads.
Although he once fondly described Mujuru as “mother
Zimbabwe,” the two crossed paths early this year as he stood accused of being a
Zanu PF spy.
Bhasikiti, Mutasa and Gumbo parted ways with Mujuru and
retained the name of the party that they formed after a bitter expulsion from
Zanu PF, Zimbabwe People First (ZPF).
It was not long before ZPF split again in the middle and
Bhasikiti dumped Mutasa and Gumbo to follow retired brigadier-general Agrippa
Mutambara who kept the name ZPF.
But Bhasikiti crossed swords with Mutambara again and
contested for the party’s presidency. He lost and thus returned to Mutasa and
Gumbo, who as things stand only have the name of a party with no membership.
“I have already resigned from ZPF where I was now serving
as the secretary-general. I find no reason to be serving in any other party
when Zanu PF have reverted to its original ideals by the Operation Restore
Legacy,” said Bhasikiti. Daily News
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