OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has assured his followers that he is still in charge of the main opposition political party in Zimbabwe, and dismissed what MDC-T leaders Thokozani Khupe, Morgen Komichi and Douglas Mwonzora are doing as sideshows whose purpose was to create chaos.
\nChamisa said the MDC-T was the past that was ditched by its late founding president Morgan Tsvangirai when he decided to move on and join hands with former secretary-generals Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnderstand this thing, MDC Alliance is a separate political party from the MDC-T, you can go to court and go visit sangomas, then go to the dead, try and speak to the late president Tsvangirai, that will not change that the MDC Alliance is a party left by Tsvangirai when he made a decision to move from MDC-T to unite the party and go back to the 2000 status. Don\u2019t come pretending as if you want to build the legacy of Tsvangirai when you are actually destroying it,\u201d he said during a televised rally in Harare yesterday.<\/p>\n
Chamisa said regardless of the court battles that had left him locked out of party headquarters, without control of legislators, councillors and facing the possibility of being barred from using the MDC name, he remained in charge and in sync with the desires and aspirations of party supporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cTsvangirai left me in charge, and I am in control, there is nothing you are going to do to change it, you can try by all means, but you won\u2019t succeed. All that is happening \u2014 that Mwonzora is running around claiming that he is the secretary-general \u2014 is child\u2019s play. You can\u2019t continue being the SG when your term of office expired in October 2019 without going back to the membership,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The embattled political leader, who was flanked by his deputy Biti and deputy chairperson Job Sikhala, said Zimbabweans should be wary of how Mwonzora and Khupe had all of a sudden become darlings of Zanu-PF in a fight against progressive and democratic forces.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are a political leader, when you go and seek an enemy so that you fight your family, that\u2019s your end. Never go to the enemy to fight your family, once the enemy finishes with your family it will come after you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Khupe and Mwonzora have been accused of dalliance with Zanu-PF and had military and police assistance to seize MRT House.<\/p>\n
Chamisa hinted that the MDC Alliance could soon be ditching the party name, saying what mattered most was not the name.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome are afraid that we will lose the name MDC Alliance, the name has no significance, what is important is your agenda as Zimbabweans, and that is what we are going to be delivering, we have a strategy. We are already facing the future, we are already building livelihoods, we are gathering people and strengthening the party. Don\u2019t be shaken, be comfortable the ship is under control. Thank God I am the captain. Thank God I am in good shape, thank God I am seeing clearly and the vision is very clear of where we are going,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has assured his followers that he is still in charge of the main opposition political party in Zimbabwe, and dismissed what MDC-T leaders Thokozani Khupe, Morgen Komichi and Douglas Mwonzora are doing as sideshows whose purpose was to create chaos. Chamisa said the MDC-T was the past that was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[113,88,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-24989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-parties","9":"tag-chamisa","10":"tag-mdc","11":"tag-tsvangirai"},"yoast_head":"\n