In a statement, CCC interim committee deputy chairperson
Albert Mhlanga said Tshabangu was suspended after failing to attend crucial
meetings.
“The CCC interim standing committee sat on February 21 amid
a great concern about the appointed CCC interim secretary-general Tshabangu for
not attending our meetings on several occasions (despite) invitations [being
sent] to him and further went on to submit a Bulawayo Senate and proportional
representation replacement list to Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) that was
not agreed upon by the interim standing committee in our last meeting,” said
Mhlanga.
“With immediate effect, the CCC party has suspended the CCC
interim secretary-general Tshabangu pending a disciplinary hearing.”
Mhlanga added that the CCC camp announced by Harare mayor
Jacob Mafume appointing Welshman Ncube as an interim president based on the
2019 Gweru congress is null and void.
“It is a new party of their own (CCC-Welshman) and the
formalised CCC that fielded double candidates, constitutionalised, recalled and
the one that appointed Tshabangu is the one that was led by the former
President Nelson Chamisa who recently resigned from the CCC party leaving us
with the interim standing committee now led by the interim chairman Dingilizwe
Tshuma.
“Tshuma will lead the party for the next 90 days until a
congress date has been set,” Mhlanga said.
He said Tshabangu engaged Mafume, Ncube and Tendai Biti who
were not part of the interim standing committee that appointed him as the CCC
interim secretary-general.
The CCC camp also announced that it nullified the Bulawayo
Senate and Proportional Representation replacement list that was submitted by
Tshabangu to Zec.
“All elected Members of Parliament, council and senate in
August 23, 2023 to remain in their mandated duty up to the end of the term of
office and to further consult the stakeholders and citizens on the way
forward,’’ said Mhlanga.
“We have realised that Tshabangu was only looking for
positions through securing our signature to endorse him as the secretary. We
had agreed that the recalls would only be effected in Bulawayo to deal with
those elected but coming from outside Bulawayo but to our surprise Tshabangu
decided on his own to go beyond Bulawayo,’’ he said.
Mhlanga accused Tshabangu of going into overdrive recalling
some people in Mashonaland provinces who were elected after having signed for
them.
“We had complained that President Chamisa had imposed
people from outside Bulawayo and we
wanted to correct that but we have realised that Tshabangu is worse than
Chamisa by imposing his friends,” he said.
“All parties are formed in Bulawayo be it Zapu, Zanu PF and
even the MDC has its roots in Bulawayo.
Any party that is formed outside Bulawayo is bound to fail, so we are an
interim national structure pending congress.”
Efforts to get a comment from Tshabangu and his
spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni were fruitless as their mobile phones were not
reachable. Newsday
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