FORMER MDC Alliance secretary for local government Elias
Mudzuri has belted the party’s warring leaders for allegedly failing their
supporters with the manner they are handling the opposition outfit’s succession
dispute.
This comes as interim MDC president Thokozani Khupe has
announced July 31 as the date for the extra-ordinary congress to choose the
successor to the MDC’s late founding president Morgan Tsvangirai as recently
ordered by the Supreme Court after it annulled Nelson Chamisa’s leadership.
The court also ruled that the MDC should revert to its 2014
structures in a development triggered by a vicious fight between Khupe and
Chamisa with the latter insisting that the ruling does not have anything to do
with the MDC Alliance which he argues is a different political outfit form the
MDC-T.
With both Chamisa
and Khupe’s camps trading accusations and counter-accusations despite efforts
to have them working together, Mudzuri told the Daily News yesterday that he
was worried that the future of opposition politics in the country was hanging
in the balance.
“The party is on a path to destruction as long as people do
not sit together to find a solution that will bring about one acceptable
leader.
It doesn’t matter how much a team dribbles past its opponents
when at the end of the day it does not score. In our case, nobody will emerge
the winner out of it.
“We are all losers because we have not solved
anything. There is no winner in a losing
team. It must be noted that none of us has not done something wrong along the
way, so we must stop being greedy.
“My wish is for us to find a way around this thing after
looking the beast that the court ruling is, in the eye. I am not interested in
the ongoing fights and I feel we are a huge disappointment to Zimbabweans
because we have betrayed them in a big way.” Mudzuri said.
Mudzuri’s
lamentations also come at a time the Khupe camp has wielded the axe on four MDC
Alliance MPs by recalling them from Parliament.
The quartet are Prosper Mutseyami (Dangamvura-Chikanga) who
was also the opposition party’s chief whip, Chalton Hwende (Kuwadzana East),
Thabitha Khumalo (proportional representative Bulawayo Province) and Senator
Lillian Timveous (Midlands).
The legislators were
elected under the MDC Alliance, which the court ruled is a coalition of
opposition parties that contested the 2018 harmonised elections as opposed to a
single outfit as argued by the Chamisa camp.
The former Harare
mayor described the war of words among leaders of both camps a disturbing.
“This is not about saying so and so must be fired or
recalled. That is why I have scoffed at (Job) Sikhala’s announcement that he
has fired me form the party. What wrong have I done? I am an elder in the party
and have never walked out like they did at one point,” Mudzuri said.
Last week, Sikhala,
the deputy national chairperson of the Chamisa-led MDC Alliance, announced that
the party had fired Mudzuri along with national executive members Morgen
Komichi and Douglas Mwonzora who the court reinstated as national chairperson
and secretary-general respectively. Daily News
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