Welshman Ncube not bothered by resignations of senior members

MDC leader Welshman Ncube, who emerged from a nine-month self-imposed hibernation on Wednesday, has said his party was not bothered by the spate of resignations by senior members insisting that those who were power hungry could move on as political parties were driven by a small group of committed individuals.
After the July 31 2013 polls, scores of high-ranking MDC members countrywide deserted the party citing personal reasons while others joined the rival MDC-T and the ruling Zanu PF. Ncube told journalists at the Bulawayo Press Club on Wednesday that he wished all his former comrades luck.
"We have no complex about being small, but what we want is the committed cadreship of the party that is committed in our values. We are not perturbed by being called a small party," he said.
"I cannot be in Zanu PF so that I wield power because I do not believe in anything they believe in. Let us be small with people who believe in us. Don't join us thinking we are large, but later discover we are small. Those in quest of power can move on."
Ncube said the party was better off without people who doubted its principles.
"If you have been in the inner circle of the leadership, people who are Doubting Thomases of the principles of the party, trust me you are far better off without them," he said.
"If we spend too much time doing political work than doing conflict resolutions, we are better off without them."