The MDC Veterans Activists Association (VAA) has started
mobilising supporters and members of the organisation to back MDC Alliance
leader Nelson Chamisa during the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) challenge
proceedings against President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday.
Chamisa has petitioned the ConCourt to nullify Mnangagwa’s
victory after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission on August 2 declared the Zanu
PF leader as winner of the presidential election, with 50,8% votes ahead of
Chamisa’s 44,3%.
Chief Justice Luke Malaba last week announced that the
court challenge proceedings would start on Wednesday this week.
MDC VAA secretary-general Charles Musimiki told Southern
Eye on Saturday that his organisation was in solidarity with Chamisa and the
Zimbabwean electorate in the petition.
“The electorate clearly spoke their wish through the
ballot. It is our sincere appeal to all veterans to get out of their schedules
and join hands with our president on August 22 in Harare for the court
proceedings. All roads should lead to Harare, come Wednesday,” Musimiki said.
“Our country, our democracy, our vote is at stake and it
needs us all as veterans of change to engage our commitment gear into motion to
protect the aforementioned.”
Musimiki said they had a responsibility, were duty-bound
and trusted to protect the future for a proper democratic dispensation to
unfold.
“Our leadership has gone out of its way and, thus, has
engaged the services of best legal minds. It is, thus, our mandatory obligation
to back up this noble initiative by ensuring that we team up our VAA
constituency to the court come Wednesday. Our presence in numbers at court on
Wednesday will convey so much impact. Let’s never underestimate the value of
our presence at the courts,” he said.
“It is beyond any reasonable doubt that either locally or
internationally, our convergence in Harare on Wednesday in solidarity with our
presidium will reflect the message we conveyed through this very vote we are
protecting.”
The move comes shortly after soldiers fatally shot seven
civilians, some of them suspected MDC Alliance protesters, over a similar
matter. Newsday
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