MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai said opposition parties
decided to form the MDC Alliance, an opposition coalition to contest President
Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF in next year’s general elections because taking over
the presidency was the only way to transform the lives of Zimbabweans.
Addressing party supporters at Mtengwe building in Gokwe
South on Sunday, Tsvangirai said at one point MDC-T held 100 parliamentary
seats and controlled urban councils, but that did not translate to the desired
political change.
“At one point we were controlling 32 urban councils in this
country, but the big question is who benefited from that,” Tsvangirai said.
“We are saying, while it is important to have [majority]
MPs and councillors, it is critically important to get the grand prize
[presidency] and that grand prize is the one that would transform the lives of
people.”
The former Prime Minister said as long as Mugabe remained
as the country’s leader he would continue his arrogance of meddling in the
affairs of councils and failing to implement the new Constitution.
The MDC-T leader said there was also need for the party to
speed up the ward election strategy that includes engaging church leaders,
students, war veterans and vendors, among other stakeholders.
“We should all unite as Zimbabweans to remove the devil
[Mugabe] amidst us because it would not help to say I belong to this or that
party then we are all in the same pitfall,” he said.
Last month, Tsvangirai’s MDC-T, Welshman Ncube’s MDC
formation, Tendai Biti’s People’s Democratic Party, Agrippa Mutambara (Zimbabwe
People First) and Jacob Ngarivhume (Transform Zimbabwe) were among other
opposition parties that formed the MDC Alliance. Newsday
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