What the Nation and world should know

When MDC-T Morgan Tsvangirai was ailing and walking and breathing his last, he made it clear that he wouldn't die as someone who failed the party on its succession debate. The fake news paddled by his spokesperson who nicodemusly had jumped ship into Chamisa coup team made the world believe that Tsvangirai had spoken.

When he went for his routine treatment, Tsvangirai left the party in the hands of his Vice President Elias Mudzuri and a loose alliance in the "hands" of Chamisa. Welshman Ncube knows the REAL truth not what he said during rallies. As was the tradition, the MDC-T part of the Alliance was always the bigger constituency within the Alliance and the presidency of the party was not supposed to be affected by what was happening at the Alliance where each party retained its autonomy.

The clear indication is that Tsvangirai knew that according to the Alliance agreement, the union would either transform into a coalition once it wins the election for it to remain alive or it would collapse thereafter meaning the end of tenure for its presidential candidate. The party would continue being marshaled by the Acting President. The Alliance lost!

Due to the unfortunate event that when Tsvangirai died there was violence against anyone who stood against Chamisa, Mudzuri stepped aside to allow the party to mourn and to go forward as it faced a crucial election.

There was a clear difference as is day from night between the MDC-T acting President and the Alliance presidential candidate. The role of the later was to contest and either win or lose that election. Supposed he won, then the extra ordinary congress which must constitutionally organized by the Acting President within 12 months after Tsvangirai died must be organised to integrate party and Alliance leadership.

This did not happen as unconstitutional mobocracy took Centre stage bringing forth a crisis of leadership and constitutional crisis within the party. MDC Alliance no longer exists and MDC-T was left to go with Thokozani Khupe. To then abuse the MDC-T  constitution to govern dynamics within the Alliance is gross misgovernance. When Thokozani et al left the party, gap filling into all structures was supposed to be done by MDC-T members.  

To then take outsiders and impose them into the Standing Committee, the world would want to know which constitution was used. The world wants to know the identity of the new hybrid party created without going to congress. They say they are going back to the 'original' MDC, but this can not be done by rewarding rebels some who made it back in parliament via an MDC-T vote and not their party membership nor did they bring back what they took when they left or sold what they have to assist the hybrid creature. So only MPs and Councillors are identified as  MDC Alliance, yet outside parliament and council they are tenants of a nameless, constitutional-less party.

Unilateral appointments by Chamisa were as unconstitutional as is his fight to remain as leader of the party beyond February 2019. Zimbabweans and the world must know that the party has been taken to a path that destroys every tenet to which it was founded upon.  The party misquandnering as MDC-T or Alliance doesn't exist and Chamisa knows this too well, but he has decided to abuse the voters, the members and emotions of Zimbabweans that his fight was for them. Look at how he abused the Government grant to fund his personal campaign and yet he has the nerve to turn around and fire poor Councillors elected by voters to become Mayors. It's about Nelson and even his roadrunner cabal has not made his quest for power any easier.

The obsession with trying to fire VP Mudzuri and SG Mwonnzora is a clear sign of a person with an unstable deafitist mentality who sees 'enemies' even where democracy should thrive. Zimbabweans must know that the attempted agreement by Chamisa to negotiate 72 NPF (G40) seats with Grace Mugabe, without the knowlege of other Alliance principals or MDC-T leadership, the grabbing of seats especially from Welshman Ncube's MDC and the eventual double candidates in his party points to one author, Nelson Chamisa. Those G40 seats where allowed to contest under Zanu-PF, but against weak or penniless MDC alliance candidates. This is why he was quick to accept MPs and Councillors' defeat whilst rejecting his loss. It's was to leave G40 MPs untouched. Can one do all this without Grace Zipiting it?

So the party is not in its current crisis by accident. Chamisa, Hwende and Zwizwai and Komichi are allowed to talk privately with junta and yet other members can't do it officially and openly. What are they hiding? How are rules applied?

This is how the party has gotten to where it is right now and yet the general people celebrate blindly. This is not the MDC founded in 1999 and in whose name people have lost lives, property and limb. Today a new section shouts Sokwanele!

Sidney Chisi
Harvest House