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Dr Nkosana Moyo rubbishes coalition
25 Aug 2017 at 02:23hrs | Views
ALLIANCE for the People's Agenda president Dr Nkosana Moyo has said the opposition parties' touted coalition was misguided and an insult to Zimbabweans.
Speaking in Bulawayo yesterday where he met his party's structures, Dr Moyo said the coalition founders imply that the electorate is incapable of choosing their preferred leaders in the political pool.
He said Zimbabweans should not be limited in selecting their leaders.
His sentiments come at a time when other opposition parties are having sleepless nights as they are failing to agree on terms for the coalition.
The opposition has agreed that forming a coalition is the only way to remove Zanu-PF from power.
Dr Moyo said just a like a woman is free to choose a husband of her choice, Zimbabweans should be given an opportunity to choose their leader.
He described as baseless the argument by opposition parties that contesting as separate entities would result in splitting of votes.
"Others are coming saying are we not splitting the vote, form an alliance with Morgan (Tsvangirai MDC-T president) and so on and so on," he said, picking a woman in the crowd to illustrate his point.
"When you chose your boyfriend did you say other guys who were pursuing you should eliminate themselves? They didn't but you chose one right. So the issue of saying coalition, as if Zimbabweans are not smart enough to choose I think is an insult to all of us, it's an insult. Because we are implying that we shouldn't have a choice, that choice should be eliminated up front so that when we go to vote there is only be one person remaining," said Dr Moyo.
"So a coalition is a completely misguided argument, I believe even my uneducated mother can choose from the choices available the president who can move us from the prevailing problem. My mother knows that so we don't need a coalition for that."
He said he was the right candidate to contest in next year's presidential election saying he was a successful economist and understood the financial sector.
Despite concerns by his party supporters that the party was viewed as an elitist organisation, only penetrating social media platforms, Dr Moyo said it was not his duty to be on the ground campaigning.
He said he would not be holding political rallies neither would he be distributing printed T-shirts to his supporters.
"Why would I as a leader choose to identify people so that they can be beaten up? That's not what I'm after, I'm after votes and I know people who are in Zanu-PF and MDC are going to vote for us but they are not going to vote for us because of T-shirts. I don't believe in T-shirts because it's completely unnecessary. What we want is for you to mobilise people to go and vote," said Dr Moyo.
He said his party supporters should be the ones spreading information about his party to their relatives in rural areas.
Speaking in Bulawayo yesterday where he met his party's structures, Dr Moyo said the coalition founders imply that the electorate is incapable of choosing their preferred leaders in the political pool.
He said Zimbabweans should not be limited in selecting their leaders.
His sentiments come at a time when other opposition parties are having sleepless nights as they are failing to agree on terms for the coalition.
The opposition has agreed that forming a coalition is the only way to remove Zanu-PF from power.
Dr Moyo said just a like a woman is free to choose a husband of her choice, Zimbabweans should be given an opportunity to choose their leader.
He described as baseless the argument by opposition parties that contesting as separate entities would result in splitting of votes.
"Others are coming saying are we not splitting the vote, form an alliance with Morgan (Tsvangirai MDC-T president) and so on and so on," he said, picking a woman in the crowd to illustrate his point.
"When you chose your boyfriend did you say other guys who were pursuing you should eliminate themselves? They didn't but you chose one right. So the issue of saying coalition, as if Zimbabweans are not smart enough to choose I think is an insult to all of us, it's an insult. Because we are implying that we shouldn't have a choice, that choice should be eliminated up front so that when we go to vote there is only be one person remaining," said Dr Moyo.
"So a coalition is a completely misguided argument, I believe even my uneducated mother can choose from the choices available the president who can move us from the prevailing problem. My mother knows that so we don't need a coalition for that."
He said he was the right candidate to contest in next year's presidential election saying he was a successful economist and understood the financial sector.
Despite concerns by his party supporters that the party was viewed as an elitist organisation, only penetrating social media platforms, Dr Moyo said it was not his duty to be on the ground campaigning.
He said he would not be holding political rallies neither would he be distributing printed T-shirts to his supporters.
"Why would I as a leader choose to identify people so that they can be beaten up? That's not what I'm after, I'm after votes and I know people who are in Zanu-PF and MDC are going to vote for us but they are not going to vote for us because of T-shirts. I don't believe in T-shirts because it's completely unnecessary. What we want is for you to mobilise people to go and vote," said Dr Moyo.
He said his party supporters should be the ones spreading information about his party to their relatives in rural areas.
Source - chronicle
