We don't want Biti, we are able to challenge Mugabe alone, says MDC-T

THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Morgan Tsvangirai has dismissed as malicious media claims that its top leadership has engaged the party's rebel Tendai Biti and his Renewal Team in a bid to forge a coalition to unseat long time ruler Robert Mugabe.

An online publication - Newzimbabwe.com reported that MDC-T hawks were talking to Biti in a bid to lure him back to the MDC-T which he broke away from citing undemocratic tendencies by its leader Tsvangirai.

But the party's new spokeperson Obert Gutu today shot the claims down describing them as mere propaganda.

"Newzimbabwe.com's attempt to flight propaganda on behalf of the Renewal people, by suggesting that MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai is engaging Tendai Biti for unity talks deserves to be shot down before it even takes off," wrote Gutu in a statement seen by Byo24 news today.

Newzimbabwe.com editors know that the MDC has a spokesman, myself, and President Tsvangirai has a spokesman whom they know very well, and who can easily be contacted, and the MDC has a secretariat headed by Douglas Mwonzora.

"There is no need to write speculative stories about the MDC attributed to unnamed 'senior members'  especially if you are casting such serious aspersions on the MDC, like that the party is contemplating negotiations with the MDC Renewal Team," further reads the statement.

 Gutu said they were not contemplating ‘inviting' Biti and his counterpart Elton Mangoma or the entire Renewal Team because they were 'a blessing in disguise for the MDC-T".

"For your information Sir, Tsvangirai has no pride to swallow over the fall-out with Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma, and the people who now call themselves Renewal, because we considered their departure a blessing in disguise for the party," he wrote.

"They had already become toxic to the party because they were pursuing a corrupt leadership agenda in everything they were doing, but when it failed they realised that they were exposed and quit."

He said they had ‘discarded' Biti and his allies and vowed not to beg them to repent.

"Going to them would be tantamount to looking through the dust bin for something we discarded. They have got absolutely nothing that we want except our properties, which we are engaging them on.

"What would the MDC-T need the Renewal's endorsement for,  if I might ask the newzimbabwe.com Editor. Their endorsement would not buy us anything; if anything, it might invite the scorn of Zimbabweans who have also rejected Renewal when they learned of Biti and Mangoma's betrayal."

The MDC-T spokes further charged that his party was able to challenge Mugabe or Mujuru single handedly and does not need any rebel to join them.

"The MDC is ready to take on Zanu-PF, whether it is Mnangagwa's, Mujuru's or even Joseph Chinotimba's; what we want, and what the people of Zimbabwe need, is a government of their choice.

We believe we are the party of choice, which we should be free to prove again, in any language, on any street, and in every village, in this modern and civilised country that we love so much."