NEWLY-elected MDC-Alliance treasurer general Mr David
Coltart says opposition leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has no capacity to turn around
the country’s economy “in months”, even if he were to become President
“tomorrow”.
Mr Coltart, in a brutal assessment of the opposition, told
a private media outlet on the sidelines of the just-ended congress in Gweru
that the outfit was not in a position to convince the electorate to vote for
it.
He advised party supporters to lower their “expectations,
both nationally and within the party”.
Ironically, Mr Chamisa is pushing for a hybrid government
that includes him and his party, which he calls a “transitional authority”,
presumably because he has the magic wand.
But said Mr Coltart: “If (Mr) Nelson Chamisa became
President of Zimbabwe tomorrow, he would not be able to turn around the
fortunes of Zimbabwe in a day, in weeks, in a few months.
“The problems in our nation are deep rooted and are gonna
take a lot of determination . . .”
President Mnangagwa is implementing a cocktail of measures
to turn around the fortunes of the country, with his marquee policy being
Vision 2030, which aims to achieve an upper middle income economy status in 11
years’ time. Mr Coltart noted that MDC-Alliance was disorganised and not ready
for the huge task of running the country.
He said: “. . . we cannot say to the electorate, now I am
talking way beyond the members here, I am talking about the rank and file who
are not members of the MDC; we cannot say to them that we are qualified to run
the country well if we can’t run our own party well.
“This is the starting point. That’s the challenge that we
have in the next few years before the next elections. We have to show that we
can run this party well, far more efficiently than it has been run. And then if
we do that, not only are we going to energise our members and mobilise our
members, but we can then demonstrate to the broader electorate that we are
competent and capable to run this country . . .” Herald
Coltart: “we cannot say we can run the country well if we cannot run our party well”— Zim Media Review (@ZimMediaReview) May 27, 2019
He says in the next few years until the next election the MDC must demonstrate to voters that it can run the party efficiently so that voters can trust it to run the country pic.twitter.com/HoVn1USFL0
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