MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe, a regular feature at the
Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) meetings chaired by President Emmerson
Mnangagwa, failed Monday to attend a scheduled gathering at State House.
The grouping comprises more than a dozen politicians from
fringe parties that participated in the 2018 presidential election.
Before a recent Supreme Court ruling confirming Khupe as
interim president of the MDC-T at the expense of her rival, Nelson Chamisa, the
former deputy prime minister in the now-defunct inclusive government, was a
regular at POLAD meetings and events.
However, she failed to attend Monday's meeting with her
spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni telling NewZimbabwe.com that his boss was busy
with preparation for a party extraordinary congress.
"As you know, we are preparing for our extraordinary
congress, and we need all the time to finish the preparation and putting
everything in order," he said.
The MDC-T is expected to hold the congress set to find a
replacement for late MDC president, Morgan Tsvangirai on July 31. The former
prime minister died in 2018.
However, a senior MDC-T official, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said Khupe would no longer be attending any POLAD engagements as it
was not a priority or the position in the newly reconfigured MDC-T.
"If she
attends, she will have breached the MDC Tsvangirai party's position because we
are not part of POLAD and we have never been part of it," he told
NewZimbabwe.com Monday.
"The MDC Tsvangirai has not resolved its position on
POLAD and we are not even talking about it because it's not on the party's
priority list. We have so many issues to talk about as a party that need urgent
attention than POLAD."
The MDC-T national chairperson Morgen Komichi is also on
record insisting Khupe should withdraw her membership from POLAD. NewZimbabwe
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