{"id":27016,"date":"2020-08-29T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T14:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=27016"},"modified":"2020-08-29T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T14:24:13","slug":"gutu-blasts-khupes-mdc-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gutu-blasts-khupes-mdc-t","title":{"rendered":"Gutu blasts Khupe\u2019s MDC-T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>HARARE \u2013 The former MDC-T (Tsvangirai) spokesperson Obert Gutu who also became vice president of the now-defunct MDC-T (Thokozani) party, said it would be immoral for the other MDC-T, created by a Supreme Court ruling in March, to replace MDC Alliance MPs and Councillors with its own people.<\/p>\n<p>The Khupe-led party recently forwarded a list of 15 candidates it has nominated to fill Senate and National Assembly Proportional Representative seats to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).<\/p>\n<p>Gutu believes that even though the recalls of the Nelson Chamisa-aligned MPs and councillors was lawful, it is immoral and incredulous to replace them with Khupe\u2019s nominees. Gutu wrote on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>Recall of MPs and councillors resonates with law\u2019s dictates. However, a moral issue arises: It\u2019s morally unsound and incredulous to replace the recalled MPs with people from another faction. Politically, it\u2019s also not smart. Recall enforcing discipline, yes. Show class, don\u2019t replace.<\/p>\n<p>Khupe nominated herself, her spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni, Yvonne Musarurwa, Lindani Moyo, January Sawuke, Memory Munochinzwa, Lwazi Sibanda, Sipho Mokone, Molly Ndlovu, Tamani Moyo, Gertrude Moyo, Piniel Denga, Chief Ndluvu, Nomalanga Khumalo and Teti Chisorochengwe as MPs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: HARARE \u2013 The former MDC-T (Tsvangirai) spokesperson Obert Gutu who also became vice president of the now-defunct MDC-T (Thokozani) party, said it would be immoral for the other MDC-T, created by a Supreme Court ruling in March, to replace MDC Alliance MPs and Councillors with its own people. The Khupe-led party recently forwarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[615,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-27016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-parties","9":"tag-khupe","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>Gutu blasts Khupe\u2019s MDC-T - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:HARARE \u2013 The former MDC-T (Tsvangirai) spokesperson Obert Gutu who also became vice president of the now-defunct MDC-T\" \/>\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\/gutu-blasts-khupes-mdc-t\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gutu blasts Khupe\u2019s MDC-T\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:HARARE \u2013 The former MDC-T (Tsvangirai) spokesperson Obert Gutu who also became vice president of the now-defunct MDC-T\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gutu-blasts-khupes-mdc-t\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-29T14:24:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/10\/Thokozani-Khupe1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"496\" \/>\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\/gutu-blasts-khupes-mdc-t\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gutu-blasts-khupes-mdc-t\",\"name\":\"Gutu blasts Khupe\u2019s MDC-T - 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