Tsvangirai tactically ditched for Mujuru

The drastic shift of attention from Morgan Tsvangirai to Joice  Mujuru must really be shaking the former more than media would want it to appear the People First ghost is haunting ZANU PF.

Perhaps the misinterpretation is deliberate under the circumstances that the fall of Tsvangirai into political oblivion is unavoidable and nothing can be done to save his skin.

Headlines such as "Tsvangirai flexes muscle" are testimonial to the fact that the beleaguered ex-Premier is having a tough time to remain afloat in the wake of the alleged PF turbulence. Apparently, there hasn't been anything to report on Tsvangirai that could surpass the cadaver of People First.

Any political move from the overwhelmed opposition leader, sympathetic journalists then get the torrid task of trying all kinds of political and journalistic cosmetics to sensationalize the desperate attempts by Tsvangirai.

These unkind overshadows of Tsvangirai's activities, signal the end of his political career more profoundly than it can be construed as threatening ZANU PF.

Delving much into the  prevailing political atmosphere in Zimbabwe, it isn't very much a difficult task to figure out that the shift is typical  agenda setting of  a hidden hand that is tired of Tsvangirai and his daftness.

The baffling question then is how Tsvangirai could be losing to a political ghost when he supposedly holds the keys to unlocking the economy, apart from being touted as the god father of opposition politics?

Time is thus certainly up for Tsvangirai, though his replacement from the West is still to be ascertained. It isn't a secret that the ex-Prime Minister failed to deliver to his so called political principals, hence the disenchantment that has resulted in his inevitable ditching.

The plan is to leave Tsvangirai by his lone self at MDC-T as his supporters are spirited to the People First pilot project, if such as association does exist on the ground and is not a figment of the overdrive imagination of the private press that seems besotted with anything anti-Establishment. If it exists, its current membership is surely biased towards the elite and those with the James Bond movie personality to avoid detection.

Thus political drama that has characterized Zimbabwe for the past two years far exceeds comedy or royal rumble if one wants to call it. As ZANU PF was pruning weeds from its ranks, the results were different in opposition camps where Tendai Biti further split from Elton Mangoma. Nelson Chamisa on the other was busy restraining Tsvangirai from political hallucination. Such undesirable weeds appear to have been welcomed with open arms, thereby calling into question the judgement of those behind the so-called People First project.

The circus was just too much to be contained in opposition circles such that there had to be created a ghost group to take some of action. Thus, People First is around as an imagined quill to the floundering fortunes of opposition forces, including the MDC formations.

Tsvangirai should wake up and smell the coffee; it does not need an astronaut to interpret the positions of the stars and then figure the position of Morgan Tsvangirai in the universe. The movement now as it stands is to remove Tsvangirai.