OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, who claims
he has a legitimate claim to lead the country after rejecting a Constitutional
Court (ConCourt) ruling that confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as winner
of the July 30 presidential election, says he is now rallying his supporters
countrywide to unseat Mnangagwa “peacefully”.
The ConCourt on August 24 dismissed Chamisa’s electoral
challenge, saying he had failed to prove his allegations of vote fraud, but the
opposition leader says the court foiled his bid to subpoena the Zimbabwe
Electoral Commission to provide proof critical to his case.
Speaking at his party’s headquarters in Harare yesterday,
Chamisa maintained that he won the first election since the departure of former
President Robert Mugabe last November and that he was not going to wait for the
2023 general elections to face off with Mnangagwa.
“We won, but they announced something different. Now, do we
wait for 2023 while we know that we won the election? Is that possible? Now we
are in the process of organising our supporters in the country so that we all
have one aim, to say ‘what we voted for should be respected; the results that
were announced are your own problem, but the vote of the people should be
respected’,” Chamisa said.
He claimed to have a grand plan to peacefully remove
Mnangagwa and said he would not consider the President’s olive branch handed to
him.
“We are going to execute our plans in peace and quiet.
Mnangagwa was saying I should go to Parliament. I was not elected to go to
Parliament. When I came to Zimbabweans, I said to them, please, give me a chance
to go to State House,” Chamisa said.
“The voters gave me the keys to State House, but the keys
were stolen. We want our keys back. But for us to get these keys, we need
strategic planning of the highest order so that we can do our things in peace and
quiet. There is no army, no gun or weapon that can destroy anything whose time
has come. So we are planning, plans that are smart and we hope that with your
ideas, things will move smoothly.”
But Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo said the ruling
party would not lose sleep over threats to remove Mnangagwa from power because
the State had sufficient laws to deal with acts of lawlessness.
“Zanu PF is not worried about that, it is lawlessness. That
is why the police are there to deal with lawlessness. The law enforcement
agents will deal with that,” he said.
“This country has a Constitution which says elections are
held every five years and the Constitutional Court has confirmed that elections
are over, and if he (Chamisa) does not want to respect the Constitution, that
is lawlessness as far as I am concerned.” Newsday
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