Zimbabwe not Mugabe's private company

President Robert Mugabe's utterances at the just ended African Union (AU) Ordinary Summit in Addis Ababa Ethiopia that he will "rule until God says come" are irresponsible and an insult on the suffering masses of Zimbabwe. Equally his statement that Africa must pull out of the United Nations is further confirmation that he is incapacitated to lead.

It is detestable that a leader who has been at the helm of this country for 36 years still harbors ambitions to continue as the country's chief executive. What is more appalling to Mugabe's assertions is that the 36 years of his rule have been 36 long years of suffering which saw more than 20 000 people massacred in a genocide in the early 80s, the economy completely destroyed, unemployment rising to a shocking 91%, inflation broke records until the moribund currency was dumped among many other misdeeds.

Mugabe's rule has been characterized by violence, heartlessness and greed which saw the national coffers being looted empty by Mugabe himself and a coterie of his criminal hangers' on. The poverty that Mugabe has wrote on the people's lives is unimaginable and after all that to shamelessly open his fouled mouth and say he wants to take this country to the grave with him is the biggest insult of the moment.

It must dawn on Mugabe in his advanced years and nefarious mind that Zimbabwe is not an extension of his struggling Gushungo Dairy and neither is it a piece of land in the back yard of his neglected Zvimba rural home.

Zimbabwe is an inheritance of everyone who calls it home. It is a property of every citizen born or registered in it and can never be privatized by a nonagenarian with advice from his psychotic wife. Therefore, to suggest that he will drag Zimbabwe with him to his grave is the most insolent and ridiculous of all tyrannies.

That act alone shows his total contempt of the rights of Zimbabwe's people in choosing leadership. Mugabe is at the position he is today through reliance on Gestapo style violent repression and use of Stalinist electoral fraud schemes.

By decreeing that he wants to rule Zimbabwe until his grave, Mugabe has declared himself a public enemy and must not cry foul when the masses one day demand their country from him. Examples are abundant, talk of Zinedine Ben Ali of Tunisia, Murmur Gaddafi of Libya, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and many more that had an unfortunate ending after declaring themselves public enemies as Mugabe has just done.

As the People's Democratic Party (PDP), we believe that Zimbabweans now need to set aside their differences and come together to work towards an organic coalition that will push Mugabe and his criminal gang in ZANU PF out of power.

That Mugabe has the audacity to open his fouled mouth and shout such nonsense is an indictment on the opposition hence the need to urgently come together and craft a common path of action to save our nation from the abyss Mugabe is dragging the country to.

The PDP has developed two policy documents, HOPE and ARREST, which are the basis of creating another Zimbabwe which is democratic and prosperous. We believe in cross pollination of ideas and solutions to our national crisis hence we call upon all progressive political parties, the church, civic society, workers and peasants to come together and collectively engage on another Zimbabwe which we want and how we will get there.