Zimbabweans' logic is illogical

The spin-doctoring and sensationalisation of Ncube and Coltart's views on the reunification of MDC and MDCT has gone overdrive. Some have described or interpreted the news as the effective isolation of Ncube from the Zimbabwe body politic. Some have even gone for the kill and are cheering Mugabe and Tswangirayi for isolating Ncube from the elitist Principals Club. This is the media which too partisan to even understand the workings of robust debate, independent thinking and democratic engagement, which luckily Ncube and Coltart are used to.

Let us start from the beginning, after reading this article you will realise how illogical Zimbabweans are, even if you don't because you are reading this article from your prism of illogicality,  itwill still remain the fact that Zimbabweans' logic is illogical.

Zimbabweans agree that the only way of effectively defeating Mugabe and his aged bootlickers in the form of ZANU PF leaders is to form some kind of an opposition United Front, but that's only where logic starts and ends, from there all political permutations of such a united front are lopsided and devoid of rationality.

Some with their misplaced allegiance to Tswangirayi, start to insult Ncube by saying that he split the original MDC and that Ncube caused Tswangirayi to lose in 2008 election. These are shameless and baseless accusations, devoid of substance whatsoever. It is on record that Tswangirayi deliberately split the MDC by defying the democratic outcome of his executive. Does MDC-T have senators now? So is it not clear that Tswangirayi was short-sighted? Secondly, it is on record that Ncube's party signed an electoral pact with the MDC T in the last general elections but MDC T at the last minute refused to endorse the agreement.

Here the victim is clear, for the avoidance of any doubt, I reiterate it here, it was Ncube and his party, who were wronged by Tswangirayi and his party. But Zimbabwean logic says, Ncube was wrong, who does he think he is, does he not know his station in Zimbabwe? This notion of a people from a certain section in Zimbabwe being entitled or eligible for national leadership and office has gone for a long time without anyone challenging it.Now is the time to dispel the lie.

Those who accuse Ncube of doubting the success of the reunification, surprisingly do not blameBiti who also doubted that this will ever happen, just recently in Manchester. They also think that such Unity should be on MDC T terms, they take it as a given that in such an arrangement Tswangirayi should be the leader or the only presidential candidate. What nonsense is that? Why would Tswangirayi's leadership be more attractive than Ncube's? Ncube has proven again and again that he is an astute and shrewd political operator, whose leadership is unparalleled. It is an open secret today that Tswangirayi is not different from Mugabe, the only change he wants is a change of personnel, nothing more, and nothing less. People should be prepared to inculcate a culture of meritocracy and a political disposition which does not perpetuate and entrench discrimination and tribalism veiled as national leadership and electoral appeal. Those people who profess hatred for Mugabe and want Ncube to join Tswangirayi under duress are the ones perpetuating tribalism and undemocratic tendencies, these very people if Mugabe and Ncube won in the first round and progress to round two without Tswangirayi, they will vote Mugabe not Ncube.

In reality Ncube does not need any Unity with Tswangirayi, he would rather unite with other like-minded parties such as ZAPU, MDC99 and MKD. If Tswangirayi thinks he is indomitable, let him and his party go it alone. If MDCT is prepared for any electoral pact it should be prepared to relinquish leadership claim to such a pact, it should be prepared to push Ncube's name forward and back it overwhelmingly in the ballot box.

The views expressed are on my personal capacity.