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'Mujuru grabbing MDC-T MPs is a blue lie'
10 Jan 2016 at 07:06hrs | Views
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu said it was not true that his party was losing MPs to-PF.
"It's a blue lie to allege that Joice Mujuru is attracting support from MDC-T structures," he said.
" Last time I checked, it is supporters of Tendai Biti's PDP who had joined Mujuru if recent reports on social media are anything to go by.
"The MDC–T remains the largest and most popular political party in Zimbabwe.
"We're the real deal; the only game in town. Joice Mujuru might be a threat to the faction-ridden and crumbling Zanu-PF and other small, fringe opposition political parties but certainly, she is not a threat to the MDC–T. In a free and fair election in Zimbabwe, we can beat any political party hands down. We are the Goliath of Zimbabwean politics; absolutely no doubt about that!" Gutu said.
Biti said he viewed Mujuru as a "friend and not foe".
"It is those that have an unbridled ambition to rule, who think they have a God given right to take over from Mugabe," he said.
"We do not view-PF as a threat to us. An enemy to our enemy is a friend to us. Mujuru is an enemy to Mugabe and Zanu-PF. It is those that are drunk with the urge to rule who are sweating," Biti said.
""We have said we will work with all right thinking political formations and-PF is one of them".
Brutally stampeded out of the ruling party at the tail end of 2014, ahead of the Zanu-PF congress Mujuru has played her cards close to her chest thus far – letting her lieutenants including another liberation stalwart and ex-ruling party propaganda chief Gumbo do the talking.
Gumbo said the party's constitution was "almost complete".
"But we are not going to have the complete constitution because input is still coming from the provinces," he said.
"We have requested that they continue to bring their input. Another thing is it has to be ratified by congress but we will have a working document that will regulate our members as we go to the inaugural congress."
Despite her expulsion from the ruling party, Mujuru has remained popular amid reports serving MPs were preparing to jump ship ahead of a watershed poll in 2018.
"It's a blue lie to allege that Joice Mujuru is attracting support from MDC-T structures," he said.
" Last time I checked, it is supporters of Tendai Biti's PDP who had joined Mujuru if recent reports on social media are anything to go by.
"The MDC–T remains the largest and most popular political party in Zimbabwe.
"We're the real deal; the only game in town. Joice Mujuru might be a threat to the faction-ridden and crumbling Zanu-PF and other small, fringe opposition political parties but certainly, she is not a threat to the MDC–T. In a free and fair election in Zimbabwe, we can beat any political party hands down. We are the Goliath of Zimbabwean politics; absolutely no doubt about that!" Gutu said.
Biti said he viewed Mujuru as a "friend and not foe".
"It is those that have an unbridled ambition to rule, who think they have a God given right to take over from Mugabe," he said.
""We have said we will work with all right thinking political formations and-PF is one of them".
Brutally stampeded out of the ruling party at the tail end of 2014, ahead of the Zanu-PF congress Mujuru has played her cards close to her chest thus far – letting her lieutenants including another liberation stalwart and ex-ruling party propaganda chief Gumbo do the talking.
Gumbo said the party's constitution was "almost complete".
"But we are not going to have the complete constitution because input is still coming from the provinces," he said.
"We have requested that they continue to bring their input. Another thing is it has to be ratified by congress but we will have a working document that will regulate our members as we go to the inaugural congress."
Despite her expulsion from the ruling party, Mujuru has remained popular amid reports serving MPs were preparing to jump ship ahead of a watershed poll in 2018.
Source - the standard
