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MDC-T senior officials boycott Tsvangirai rally in Rusape
23 Jul 2013 at 15:01hrs | Views
The feuding between MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and the Manicaland provincial executive escalated yesterday with the latter boycotting the premier's rally at Vengere Stadium where he unveiled Mavambo leader Dr Simba Makoni as the "endorsed" Makoni Central candidate.
Tsvangirai disputed accusations of imposing the MKD leader arguing that he was supporting the ex-finance minister on the basis of the Coalition for Change truce entered with Makoni and Reketayi Semwayo of Zanu Ndonga to dislodge Zanu PF's President Robert Mugabe in next week's poll.
Sagandira said Tsvangirai was not the electorate and since he had filed his nomination papers with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission he was still going to contest.
MDC-T provincial chairman Julius Magarangoma, who is opposed to the interference by Mr Tsvangirai in the province yesterday, took his war with Tsvangirai to social media Facebook where he likened the MDC-T leader to a supersonic snake.
"Our Party is now being controlled by Supersonic Snake. It's shameful!!!!," he wrote in an indication that he was fiercely fighting from the corner of the targeted candidate.
A provincial official who spoke to Nehanda Radio after meeting Sagandira accused Tsvangirai of failing to uphold the party constitution through such unilateral declarations. The official queried the premier's capacity in holding the country's supreme law if he romps to victory on July 31.
"We do know what Tsvangirai is up to when he mortgages those votes intended for Sagandira to Makoni since senatorial and proportional representation seats are allocated according to the number of votes garnered by each party.
Instead of Tsvangirai campaigning for more votes for MDC-T he is saying such must go to Mavambo, which means we will lose out on the allocation of such seats. He is vouching for a double blow for the party in Manicaland. He is greedy and just thinking of going to State House," said the member.
Although Makoni rose to a rapturous welcome by thousands of MDC-T supporters, a handful of Sagandira's supporters tried to protest before they were chucked out of the stadium.
Tsvangirai disputed accusations of imposing the MKD leader arguing that he was supporting the ex-finance minister on the basis of the Coalition for Change truce entered with Makoni and Reketayi Semwayo of Zanu Ndonga to dislodge Zanu PF's President Robert Mugabe in next week's poll.
Sagandira said Tsvangirai was not the electorate and since he had filed his nomination papers with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission he was still going to contest.
MDC-T provincial chairman Julius Magarangoma, who is opposed to the interference by Mr Tsvangirai in the province yesterday, took his war with Tsvangirai to social media Facebook where he likened the MDC-T leader to a supersonic snake.
"Our Party is now being controlled by Supersonic Snake. It's shameful!!!!," he wrote in an indication that he was fiercely fighting from the corner of the targeted candidate.
A provincial official who spoke to Nehanda Radio after meeting Sagandira accused Tsvangirai of failing to uphold the party constitution through such unilateral declarations. The official queried the premier's capacity in holding the country's supreme law if he romps to victory on July 31.
"We do know what Tsvangirai is up to when he mortgages those votes intended for Sagandira to Makoni since senatorial and proportional representation seats are allocated according to the number of votes garnered by each party.
Instead of Tsvangirai campaigning for more votes for MDC-T he is saying such must go to Mavambo, which means we will lose out on the allocation of such seats. He is vouching for a double blow for the party in Manicaland. He is greedy and just thinking of going to State House," said the member.
Although Makoni rose to a rapturous welcome by thousands of MDC-T supporters, a handful of Sagandira's supporters tried to protest before they were chucked out of the stadium.
Source - NH
