Tsvangirai's councillors defect to Mujuru's People First

SEVERAL former MDC-T councillors in Harare have reportedly defected to ex-Vice-President Joice Mujuru's yet-to-be-officially launched People First project, where they are already involved in membership recruitment programmes.

Some of the defectors include former deputy mayor, Emmanuel Chiroto, Dzivarasekwa councillor, Herman Karimakwenda and Mbare councillor, Friday Muleya among several others, who left the opposition for various reasons.

A senior official in the People First project confirmed that several MDC-T officials, who left the opposition party, were on the ground and working with the Mujuru project.

People First spokesperson, Rugare Gumbo confirmed that the party was working with a lot of people, some of them from the opposition MDC-T, but would not give names.