'Jabulani Sibanda has now gone mad,' says Chinotimba

Joseph Chinotimba has a labelled ousted Zanu-PF politician Jabulani Sibanda "a bigger villain" after the former war veterans leader called on Zimbabweans to rise and remove President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF from power.

Chinotimba added that Sibanda has now gone mad.

He said for Mugabe to win the 2013 election it was because of Sibanda who went around campaigning and also mobilized people to attend the star rallies.

At Itai Dzamara prayer meeting over the weekend, Sibanda took to the podium amid wild cheers from a predominantly MDC-T crowd and missed no opportunity to rail on President Mugabe and his regime.

"When leaders are elected into power, they forget where they came from; they forget their powers came from the people.

"They think power is now their personal and family property," said the former war veterans' leader.

The once fierce Mugabe defender, who punctuated his Shona address with Biblical references advocating uprising, said he was dismayed at seeing that Zimbabweans felt better off looking for means to manage their miseries under the current regime instead of confronting the real beast.

"We are going after pain killer after pain killer, pain killer after pain killer, pain killer after pain killer, pain killer after pain killer, pain killer after pain killer, pain killer after pain killer; bvisa zvinoda kubviswa!" he said to deafening applause.