Opinion / Columnist
MDC-T stop blaming Zanu-PF for your failure!
29 Apr 2014 at 16:17hrs | Views
I was left speechless and a bit shocked when I read in the press statements uttered by the suspended MDC-T spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora, blaming ZANU-PF and the security agencies for the suspension of their party leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his cronies as well as the ongoing fights in the party which are likely to cause complete fallout.
The MDC-T national executive council held a meeting on 26April 2014 at Mandel Training Center and resolved to suspend party leader Morgan Tsvangirai, his deputy Thokozani Khupe and four others. It was also at this meeting that the party's secretary general Tendai Biti, finally came out in the open about his allegiance to the renewal team.
The die was cast and those present voted in favour of the suspensions. This whole process was done away from ZANU-PF or CIO offices or personnel.
It then boggles the mind how Mwonzora came up with the idea that the two are responsible for their own mess.
What he is shamelessly doing is blaming everyone else other than the true cause of the madness and confusion now characterizing the party-themselves.
Mwonzora's statement read, "It is a damp squib. It is a culmination of a programme of covert operations by the CIO, Zanu-PF and (President) Mugabe, working with a few malcontents and Welshman Ncube's party to destablise the MDC."
It is high time the MDC-T party should stop its habit of blaming ZANU-PF for its splendid failures.
The MDC-T should face facts and admit its own shortcomings if there is to be any future at all for the party. Some progressive minded individuals within the party have already seen the light.
Biti and his leadership renewal team openly stated some of the reasons that led to Tsvangirai's suspension among them being using violence as a way of settling disputes, a thing which they claim the MDC-T did not tolerate. The team also noted that, Tsvangirai struggled for 14 years to deliver victory against ZANU-PF, another reason that led to his suspension.
In addition, according to the leadership renewal team, Tsvangirai abused power and the patronage system in the party. The team views Tsvangirai as a corrupt leader who abused millions of donor funds that were supposed to be used by the party over his own personal interests.
Biti's team articulated that Tsvangirai was now politically irrelevant such that the MDC-T party donors have decided to stop funding the party thereby calling for leadership renewal.
Where therein is the CIO and ZANU-PF's contribution when all the reasons stated above of are Tsvangirai's own making?
Did ZANU-PF and the CIO make up the 138 people who voted in favour of suspending Tsvangirai and company at Mandel centre?
Mwonzora should stop hiding behind a finger.
This is not the first time that Tsvangirai has been suspended from the MDC-T party. In 2005, he was suspended on similar charges and only survived through the use of brute force.
The cause of the rot, Mr Mwonzora is firmly entrenched within your own party.
MDC-T must stop the blame game and put their house in order!
Source - Peacemaker Zano
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