Tsvangirai missing govt perks, claims Zanu-PF

President Robert Mugabe's party has spurned opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's call for another power sharing government ostensibly because President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF had failed to steward the economy.

Mugabe was forced to share power with his rival, Tsvangirai, between 2009 and 2013 under a deal worked out after disputed elections in 2008.

In comments at a rally in Budiriro over the weekend as he addressed his MDC supporters,Tsvangirai said: "In 2008 Zanu-PF admitted that it had failed to run the country and we had to intervene. And now Mugabe has admitted that he has failed. It's time he comes to us. But let it be known that we are not going to allow the mistakes of 2009 to haunt us. We are going to be clever this time."

However, the former liberation movement said the former prime minister was "daydreaming."

"Well, what do you expect from a daydreamer," party spokesperson Rugare Gumbo said. "We beat him decisively in the last elections and he hasn't recovered from that.

"We got two-thirds majority in Parliament and our president got 61 percent of the presidential vote. So how then do we form a unity government with somebody who has paltry Parliamentary seats?"

Gumbo alleged Tsvangirai was missing the perks in government.

"Tsvangirai should come out in the open and say he and his cronies are missing the packages that they received in government", Gumbo said.

"They proved that they have nothing to offer the people during the tenure of the government and the people did not vote for them. Tsvangirai should leave us alone because we got the mandate from the people."

The Zanu-PF spokesperson said his party is seized with implementing the five-year economic blueprint, Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (ZimAsset).

"He (Tsvangirai) should leave us alone because we are seized with entrenching ZimAsset," Gumbo said.

"We are trying to implement the economic blueprint and all focus is on the economic blueprint.

"If Tsvangirai thinks he has something better to offer to the people, he should wait for 2018 and stop this business of saying there should be another unity government."

The coalition government was credited with stabilising Zimbabwe's economy, even though Mugabe and Tsvangirai frequently clashed over the pace of political reforms and Western sanctions imposed on the veteran ruler and his inner circle.