{"id":18221,"date":"2020-01-18T12:07:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T10:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=18221"},"modified":"2020-01-18T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T10:07:24","slug":"obert-gutu-resigns-as-mdc-t-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/obert-gutu-resigns-as-mdc-t-vp","title":{"rendered":"Obert Gutu Resigns As MDC-T VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OBERT Gutu, Vice President in the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T, has resigned with immediate effect citing \u201cpersonal and private reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor purely personal and private reasons, I\u2019m resigning from the MDC with immediate effect,\u201d Gutu announced on Twitter Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Gutu has been one of the most ardent defenders of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a platform of Zanu PF and several fringe parties that contested in the 2018 presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>He was a Deputy Justice Minister during the inclusive government, Harare\u2019s Chisipite Senator from 2008 to 2013 and MDC-T national spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Gutu was elected Vice President of the MDC-T at an extra-ordinary congress in April 2018. This was after his expulsion in March 2018 from the MDC now led by Nelson Chamisa after leadership disputes following the death of founding president, Morgan Tsvangirai. Other senior politicians expelled then were Khupe and Abednico Bhebhe who was then the party\u2019s national organising secretary.<\/p>\n<p>He contested in the 2018 elections for parliamentary elections for Harare East and lost to MDC Alliance\u2019s Tendai Biti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OBERT Gutu, Vice President in the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T, has resigned with immediate effect citing \u201cpersonal and private reasons.\u201d \u201cFor purely personal and private reasons, I\u2019m resigning from the MDC with immediate effect,\u201d Gutu announced on Twitter Saturday morning. Gutu has been one of the most ardent defenders of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[458,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-18221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-parties","9":"tag-biti","10":"tag-mdc"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obert Gutu Resigns As MDC-T VP - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"OBERT Gutu, Vice President in the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T, has resigned with immediate effect citing \u201cpersonal and private reasons.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/obert-gutu-resigns-as-mdc-t-vp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obert Gutu Resigns As MDC-T VP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OBERT Gutu, Vice President in the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T, has resigned with immediate effect citing \u201cpersonal and private reasons.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/obert-gutu-resigns-as-mdc-t-vp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-18T10:07:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Obert-Gutu.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"525\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/obert-gutu-resigns-as-mdc-t-vp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/obert-gutu-resigns-as-mdc-t-vp\",\"name\":\"Obert Gutu Resigns As MDC-T VP - 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