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Tsvangirai panic in Bulawayo, expels Senator Hlalo
31 Oct 2015 at 08:01hrs | Views
Embattled MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is said to be panicking as the party had expelled Senator Matson Hlalo.
Tsvangirai is said to have gibe to pressure from his deputy, Thokozani Khupe's faction to purge members aligned to former organising secretary Nelson Chamisa.
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu yesterday confirmed the party's national council resolved to expel Hlalo.
"This is a resolution but as you know, we're a democratic party, the relevant constitutional provisions will be followed. In the MDC-T there's nothing like a summary dismissal so there are provisions that are followed after the resolution," he said.
However, party members say the expulsion of Hlalo is meant to weak Chamisa.
"These are all calculated moves by the Khupe faction and Tsvangirai to weaken the Chamisa grouping. They targeted Hlalo, an ally of Chamisa knowing how influential he is in Bulawayo province.
"Tsvangirai is panicking and showing that he is being dictatorial. He ignored the arbiter general's report that fingered Khupe and organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe as the ones behind the chaos in Bulawayo.
"The report was clear that Khupe and Bhebhe were the culprits but Tsvangirai has chosen to ignore that. This isn't the first time that Tsvangirai has chosen to protect Khupe from censure."
"The party sources said Tsvangirai was in panic mode after his wife, Elizabeth Macheka, last Friday threatened to take it upon herself to solve the problems in Bulawayo.
"Probably to avoid what would have been an inevitable face-off between Khupe and his wife Tsvangirai bowed to pressure by the deputy president's faction to sack Hlalo.
"Macheka, who had accompanied Tsvangirai to Bulawayo last Friday, complained after the violent clashes between the youths saying the problem was that the president tended to be misled by interested parties as he didn't listen to the ordinary party members," said the source.
Tsvangirai is said to have gibe to pressure from his deputy, Thokozani Khupe's faction to purge members aligned to former organising secretary Nelson Chamisa.
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu yesterday confirmed the party's national council resolved to expel Hlalo.
"This is a resolution but as you know, we're a democratic party, the relevant constitutional provisions will be followed. In the MDC-T there's nothing like a summary dismissal so there are provisions that are followed after the resolution," he said.
However, party members say the expulsion of Hlalo is meant to weak Chamisa.
"These are all calculated moves by the Khupe faction and Tsvangirai to weaken the Chamisa grouping. They targeted Hlalo, an ally of Chamisa knowing how influential he is in Bulawayo province.
"Tsvangirai is panicking and showing that he is being dictatorial. He ignored the arbiter general's report that fingered Khupe and organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe as the ones behind the chaos in Bulawayo.
"The report was clear that Khupe and Bhebhe were the culprits but Tsvangirai has chosen to ignore that. This isn't the first time that Tsvangirai has chosen to protect Khupe from censure."
"The party sources said Tsvangirai was in panic mode after his wife, Elizabeth Macheka, last Friday threatened to take it upon herself to solve the problems in Bulawayo.
"Probably to avoid what would have been an inevitable face-off between Khupe and his wife Tsvangirai bowed to pressure by the deputy president's faction to sack Hlalo.
"Macheka, who had accompanied Tsvangirai to Bulawayo last Friday, complained after the violent clashes between the youths saying the problem was that the president tended to be misled by interested parties as he didn't listen to the ordinary party members," said the source.
Source - Chronicle
