This comes as the opposition party has disintegrated in the
wake of deep-seated factionalism which has seen its founder, Mr Nelson Chamisa,
resigning while several legislators and local authority councillors have been
recalled from their positions by interim secretary-general Mr Sengezo
Tshabangu, forcing by-elections.
The recalls forced Mr Chamisa to stand down amid reports
that he is forming another party.
Cde Mutsvangwa said Zanu PF was not gloating over the
disaster that was unfolding in the CCC adding that such conduct was not in sync
with Zanu PF’s democratic ethos of republican constitutionalism and multi-party
democracy.
“Rather, we commiserate with the ill fortunes of a
disintegrating party as a player in a multi-party political milieu,” Cde
Mutsvangwa said.
“On this occasion, we were loudly pondering the mistakes
and mis-steps that can befall a political party and in the process, advertising
to our membership and cadreship, the political pitfalls to avoid in democratic
party building.
“The travails of CCC are viewed as a live template of what
not do. We opt to learn rather than to gloat.”
The crisis in the opposition CCC is deepening and
broadening, with senior members and advisors to Mr Chamisa publicly firing
political salvos and diatribes interpretively directed towards former
legislators and what are supposed to be his two deputies, Mr Tendai Biti and
Professor Welshman Ncube.
The two ex-legislators have been on the receiving end of
vicious and unrestrained attacks on online platform X (formerly Twitter) by Mr
Chamisa’s allies, who are suggesting that Prof Ncube and Mr Biti are behind the
recall of MPs and councillors by Mr Tshabangu.
Mr Chamisa’s close associates allege that Mr Biti and his
fellow People’s Democratic Party (PDP) members who followed him into the MDC-A
and then the CCC, were conniving with Mr Tshabangu to precipitate the implosion
of CCC. Herald
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