THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T party chairman Morgen Komichi
yesterday unwittingly exposed that he was a spy who worked to destabilise and
undermine MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.
Addressing a Press conference in Harare yesterday, Komichi
said while he played an important role in jettisoning Chamisa into presidency
of the party and presidential candidate in the 2018 elections, he never
believed in his leadership qualities.
“I was never part of them, even if you ask our
secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, I used to pull him (Mwonzora) by the side
telling him that he should relax and wait because the time for Chamisa would
come to an end sooner,” he said.
Mwonzora confirmed that while Komichi appeared on a number
of rallies and platforms defending Chamisa’s alleged power grab and vehemently
attacking Thokozani Khupe, he never believed in the youthful opposition leader.
“Yes, I can confirm that he never believed that the
leadership of Nelson Chamisa would last, he used to tell me to relax,” Mwonzora
said.
Komichi said he also secretly authorised an obscure
organisation called Defending Morgan Tsvangirai’s Legacy, which issued
statements attacking Chamisa’s leadership.
As he secretly supported forces opposed to Chamisa, Komichi
branded the loyalty card which was at the centre of his campaign for the vice
presidency at the Gweru congress where he lost to Tendai Biti and Welshman
Ncube.
Komichi, according to MDC-T insiders, is also gunning for
the MDC-T presidency which Khupe and Mwonzora were also interested.
MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende said the
statements by Komichi confirmed that the outfit was just a power-shopping
movement.
“Someone who can honestly say in public, I was a spy,
supporting a presidential candidate and participated in a congress that I was
secretly working against, who can trust such characters?” Hwende asked.
Komichi acted as Chamisa’s chief elections agent and rushed
to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s podium to declare that the results that
gave President Emmerson Mnangagwa a lead in the 2018 general elections were
fake.
After ending his romance with the MDC Alliance in March
following a Supreme Court order declaring Chamisa an illegitimate leader,
Komichi made a volte-face and claimed that youthful leader did not win the
controversial presidential poll.
But Chamisa yesterday said Komichi imposed himself on his
election team.
“The chief elections agent was Jameson Timba. Komichi went
there saying he was interested in knowing what was happening, but he was not an
official of my team,” Chamisa said. Newsday
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