'Neither Tsvangirai nor MDC-T are talking to Biti unity'

Obert Gutu, the MDC's  spokesman has written:

NewZimbabwe.com's attempt to flight propaganda on behalf of the Renewal people, by suggesting that MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai is engaging Tendai Biti for unity talks deserves to be shot down before it even takes off.

The publication's editors know that the MDC has a spokesman, myself, and President Tsvangirai has a spokesman whom they know very well, and who can easily be contacted, and the MDC has a secretariat headed by Douglas Mwonzora.

There is no need to write speculative stories about the MDC attributed to unnamed "senior members"  especially if you are casting such serious aspersions on the MDC, like that the party is contemplating negotiations with the MDC Renewal Team.

For your information Sir, Tsvangirai has no pride to swallow over the fall-out with Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma, and the people who now call themselves Renewal, because we considered their departure a blessing in disguise for the party.

They had already become toxic to the party because they were pursuing a corrupt leadership agenda in everything they were doing, but when it failed they realised that they were exposed and quit.

Going to them would be tantamount to looking through the dust bin for something we discarded. They have got absolutely nothing that we want except our properties, which we are engaging them on.

What would the MDC-T need the Renewal's endorsement for,  if I might ask the NewZimbabwe.com Editor. Their endorsement would not buy us anything; if anything, it might invite the scorn of Zimbabweans who have also rejected Renewal when they learned of Biti and Mangoma's betrayal.

Their names are soiled also in the corridors of our international friends, so we do not need any former MDC members to re-join us, if they cannot walk back across, on their own, and say, I have come back.

The MDC is ready to take on Zanu-PF, whether it is Mnangagwa's, Mujuru's or even Joseph Chinotimba's; what we want, and what the people of Zimbabwe need, is a government of their choice.

We believe we are the party of choice, which we should be free to prove again, in any language, on any street, and in every village, in this modern and civilised country that we love so much.  

We challenge NewZimbabwe.com to show us any senior MDC member who believes that without unity with Renewal we will not dislodge Zanu-PF.

Jacob Mafume, if he is the one placing these stories in the Press, must be reminded that  if the overtures are coming from his possible donors, he must tell them to go where the people are.

And the editor of NewZimbabwe, we hope that you have not also got into the habit of receiving brown envelops in exchange for editorial.

The only housekeeping going on in the MDC is to sweep out deceitful people who came to us wearing democratic coats.

We had already had a very good conversation among ourselves at our congress, and the trajectory that we are taking is to take Zanu-PF on, head-on. Are you coming? Comrades?

Obert Gutu
MDC  Spokesman