Mutinhiri was against coalition talks with Chamisa

The National Patriotic Front (NPF) spokesperson, Jealousy Mawarire, told journalists in Harare that fired retired Brigadier General Ambrose Mutinhiri had become toxic to the party and was against the idea of forming a coalition with the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance.

Mutinhiri was also accused of siding with former Cabinet Minister Saviour Kasukuwere, whom the NPF alleges to be a stooge for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF.

Mawarire accused Kasukuwere, who came back home after six months in self-imposed exile, of conniving with Mutinhiri to disrupt deliberation on the coalition talks.

He further revealed that Kasukuwere, prior to coming back home, had meetings with Vice President Constantino Chiwenga in Zambia.

Mawarire said Mutinhiri's alliance with the former cabinet Minister was becoming toxic to the party and causing disruptions to the ongoing coalition talks which he said had received the blessings of Mugabe.

Mutinhiri resigned from Zanu-PF in March saying the Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) staged a coup last November and unconstitutionally overthrew former president Robert Mugabe, to take up the presidential post in the opposition party made up of, largely, former Zanu-PF members aligned to former President.