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Raila Odinga is a political schizophrenic: Zimbabwe media
28 Apr 2011 at 22:15hrs | Views
Zimbabwe's state media have launched a vicious attack against Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga after he accepted an invitation to be a guest at a congress for a party led by his Harare counterpart Morgan Tsvangirai.
Mr Odinga will officially open Prime Minister Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party congress in the second city of Bulawayo Friday.
State media propaganda against the PM's party has gone into overdrive in what analysts say is reflection of widening cracks in Zimbabwe's coalition government.
The state owned Herald newspaper, which usually reflects the thinking in President Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, described Mr Odinga as a merchant of violence.
"Who then is this Raila Odinga,'' wrote George Rugare Chingarande in the paper's opinion pages.
"Raila Odinga is a political schizophrenic.
"His rhetoric oozes with refined contemporary democracy dogma, but his actions reveal a very violent and dictatorial streak.
"The exorbitant nature of this obsessive preoccupation with violence is rivalled by a few in modern day African.
Mr Odinga will officially open Prime Minister Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party congress in the second city of Bulawayo Friday.
State media propaganda against the PM's party has gone into overdrive in what analysts say is reflection of widening cracks in Zimbabwe's coalition government.
The state owned Herald newspaper, which usually reflects the thinking in President Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, described Mr Odinga as a merchant of violence.
"Raila Odinga is a political schizophrenic.
"His rhetoric oozes with refined contemporary democracy dogma, but his actions reveal a very violent and dictatorial streak.
"The exorbitant nature of this obsessive preoccupation with violence is rivalled by a few in modern day African.
Source - Byo24News
