'Mujuru stole People First idea,' says Tsvangirai's ex-advisor

FORMER-advisor to Morgan Tsvangirai, Maxwell Zeb Shumba has lashed out at Joice Mujuru and her allies for allegedly stealing the name, People First, from his ideas.

The US-based medical doctor, who was in 2013 recruited by MDC-T leader Tsvangirai as his advisor, said the slogan was stolen from his national convergence document he titled Zimbabwe First National Convergence.

According to an online publication, Shumba indicated that "I am the author of People First."

"I authored People First and I have the documentation to prove it. They stole my idea and they know they did.

"Yes they can steal a concept but they did not steal a vision because to them my question is do you even know what people first meant when I coined it?

He insisted that Mujuru was a selfish politician who was least likely to imagine people coming first.

"Joice Mujuru has been with Mugabe for 35 years; did she ever think about people first?" Shumba said.

"She was Mujuru first; she is still Mujuru first. When did she start thinking about people first?

"And that is the reason why it (Mujuru's party) is not going anywhere because it is visionless. The author of the vision is me. I am here!"