MDC-T secretary for mobilisation Job Sikhala has pleaded
with leader of the opposition party’s breakaway faction, Thokozani Khupe to
disband her party if she wants to remain politically relevant.
Khupe’s breakaway faction held an extraordinary congress on
Saturday at Stanley Square in Bulawayo, where several new faces landed top
positions, triggering a fierce internal fight among her members.
In a statement posted on Facebook addressed to Khupe,
Sikhala said the former deputy prime minister remains a hero of the modern
struggle and that MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa and other party members were
despaired by the path that she took.
“I know that disappointments through the dreams that might
not manifest the way we hoped for would end up having people taking decisions
through anger. Anger is the greatest weakness of humankind …” he said.
Sikhala said his own anger and ego had led to “frustrations
and arrogant decisions” and he had faced.
He said Khupe’s extraordinary congress “was a gathering of
angry people” who proffer no solutions to the national cause.
“We once travelled the same path after we all became angry
about the Senate decision in 2005. We were not happy about the attempt to
overturn the decision of the national council that voted to fight against Zanu
PF in the newly created Senate then. We allowed anger to reign supreme than let
it pass and wait for another day.”
Sikhala said the late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai after
his Huruyadzo rally, in the midst of rebellion by renewalists, came to his
house and urged him to think like a leader and advance the cause of the people
of Zimbabwe.
He said Tsvangirai was working on reunifying the party
before he died; despite having had differences with Peoples’ Democratic Party
leader Tendai Biti and MDC leader Welshman Ncube and was willing to work with
them.
“There are better methods to solve grievances and
differences than the path you (Khupe) took. The path you decided to take made
me return huge respect for Chamisa. Despite being young, he made several
attempts to reconcile with you.”
“Zimbabweans are tired for continued suffering on the hands
of the Zanu PF regime. They just want to be given a fighting chance against
four decades of Zanu PF hegemony and dictatorship. It is my humble request and
submission that you take a decision bordering on the interests of the people of
Zimbabwe and disband whatever happened at Stanley Square. It’s never too late.”
Newsday
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