Desperate Welshman Ncube defends Chamisa

DESPERATE Constitutional law expert Professor Welshman Ncube has defended election of Nelson Chamisa as MDC-T president as the latter extended an olive oil to his defiant deputy.

MDC-T deputy president Thokozani Khupe has declared herself the legitimate elected acting leader and appears to have defied a seven-day ultimatum by the party to shape up of face the consequences.

Prof Ncube, who is also spokesman for the opposition MDC Alliance, was addressing hundreds of supporters at a Cross Dete rally on Saturday.

He said there was nothing illegitimate about Chamisa's ascendancy as he chronicled how the late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai picked the youthful politician as his successor.

"Our president chose Chamisa and the MDC-T national council endorsed him," said Ncube.

"Those saying he is illegitimate because he wasn't nominated by congress are lost. In any case, who calls for the congress, isn't it the national council?"

Chamisa took over power following Tsvangirai's death last month in a process bitterly contested by Khupe and other senior party leaders such as co-vice president Elias Mudzuri, secretary general Douglas Mwonzora and now-suspended national spokesman Obert Gutu.
Mwonzora attended the Dete rally where Chamisa commended him for driving all the way from Harare to join the rest of the crew.