Opinion / Columnist
Mujuru betraying her maturity through inconsistencies
03 Mar 2016 at 09:49hrs | Views
Since the 2014 dismissal of Dr Joyce Mujuru as Vice President from both government and ZANU PF and the subsequent formation of her political party, the Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) meant to challenge the supremacy of ZANU PF in elections, Mujuru has shown that she struggles to remain consistence in saying out some real issues that satisfy the public on why she was dismissed.
The ZimPF party leader, Mujuru wants to make people believe that she left ZANU PF on her own accord yet the public knows quite well that she was fired from both government and ZANU PF by President Mugabe. Actually Mujuru wants the people to believe her other said of the story surrounding her dismissal as a way of making people to embrace her newly launched political outfit. She wants to mislead the electorate into believing that she is a principled someone who stands for the truth.
In a turn of events for Dr Mujuru in trying to appear respectable, she has sought to dismiss the notion that she was sacked from both government and the ruling party ZANU PF, by choosing to tell her supporters in Chinhoyi recently that she moved out of ZANU PF on her own accord. Mujuru said that she was not dismissed by President Mugabe as alleged by the public but decided to move out from ZANU PF after realising that the alleged barrage of attacks she received from the First Lady Dr Amai Grace Mugabe during her meet the people tours around the country had no end in sight.
Mujuru further said that her departure from the ruling party ZANU PF had been "inevitable" as she was always clashing with President Robert Gabriel Mugabe regularly over policy matters up to the time she decided to leave. Surprisingly Dr Mujuru who spent the better party of her life in government waited for the 2014 debacle to leave the party. She was always in government and did not see any reason to leave the party until the alleged attacks on her from the First Lady? He alleged clashes with the President on policy matters were not significance as causing her walk out from the party but only her personal attacks? Could such a person who values her personal interests more than those of the masses become a good leader? Food for thoughts for those rushing to her ZimPF party like people rushing to new dawns of prophets sprouting the country today.
What Dr Mujuru is not aware of is that everything is in the public domain that her alleged policy clashes with President Mugabe were fictitious because Zimbabweans have never come across with such allegations before her dismissal from both ZANU PF and government. If it was true that she was ever clashing with President Mugabe on policy matters she could have shown the world by leaving the party like what she is claiming that she did in 2014 after her alleged attacks from the First Lady.
What the Zimbabweans know about Dr Mujuru is that since 1980 she was in government holding different ministries until she was appointed Vice President of Zimbabwe in 2004 making her second in command in both the government and the ruling party ZANU PF. With that influential position being in government, Mujuru got the comfort zone of being the VP getting her to amass wealth using state machinery. All the ZANU PF policies which were implemented during her time in government were done in agreement with all those who were in cabinet including herself. Now that she is no longer in government she wants the public to believe her that she was regularly clashing with President Mugabe on policy matters. Is that not cheap politicking?
It is surprising that Dr Mujuru`s statements have been inconsistence and she has never checked her previous statements in order to correct such anomalies from what she could have said previously. Mujuru thinks that by changing goal posts to suit what she wants her supporters to hear at different intervals would bring her votes in the 2018 harmonised elections. She must be aware that no amount of lies would bring electoral victory in 2018 on a silver platter. Mujuru should be aware that only reality would make people take her seriously and begin supporting her political party.
She should not forget that during an interview by Blessing Zulu of the Studio 7 on the 9th of December 2014, Mujuru declared that she didn't know any other party other than ZANU PF and that it was her party. She further declared that she was going to die in ZANU PF. Surpringly, just a year after her declaration that she would die in ZANU PF, she now finds herself being a leader of an opposition political party running by the name ZimPF. She has forgotten that she told Blessing Zulu that she would die in ZANU PF and the revolutionary is her only party she knew. It that not being mischievous?
As if her wrongful declaration that she would die in ZANU PF and her subsequent formation of the ZimPF party is not enough, Dr Mujuru told his supporters in Chinhoyi recently that she was not dismissed from government but moved out on her own accord. Mujuru`s actions points to someone who has no confidence on her actions. She is always shifting goal posts in order to satisfy certain situations at a given time. Why is she now claiming that she was not dismissed from ZANU PF yet during her interview with Blessing Zulu she did not reveal that? She only said that she would die in ZANU PF and she failed to say that she was no longer party and parcel of ZANU PF during that interview. She did not tell Zulu that she had already left the ruling party. Is that not hypocrisy?
The fact that she declared she would die in ZANU PF and later dumped that party to form an opposition political party shows that she is desperate for political aggrandisement. Her move to form a political party vindicates those who were always saying that she was power hungry in ZANU PF and was ready to remove President Mugabe from office as to take over the leadership of both the revolutionary party and government. Her formation of ZimPF has nothing to do with bringing relief to the economic turnaround of Zimbabwe but that has do with catapulting herself to the leadership of Zimbabwe which she failed to do while in ZANU PF.
Dr Mujuru`s claim that she walked out from ZANU PF because she did not contain the alleged barrage of attacks she received from the First Lady Dr Amai Grace Mugabe shows that she was selfish only thinking of her personal aggrandisement. If she was someone who was there for the people she could have walked out of ZANU PF on her alleged clash with the President on policy matters. There was no need to wait until she received that alleged attacks from the First Lady.
Her failure to leave ZANU PF during her alleged clash on policy matters with President Mugabe shows that she has no people at heart only wants herself to remain in good position to amass a lot of wealth using state machinery like what she has been doing since 1980.
The ZimPF party leader, Mujuru wants to make people believe that she left ZANU PF on her own accord yet the public knows quite well that she was fired from both government and ZANU PF by President Mugabe. Actually Mujuru wants the people to believe her other said of the story surrounding her dismissal as a way of making people to embrace her newly launched political outfit. She wants to mislead the electorate into believing that she is a principled someone who stands for the truth.
In a turn of events for Dr Mujuru in trying to appear respectable, she has sought to dismiss the notion that she was sacked from both government and the ruling party ZANU PF, by choosing to tell her supporters in Chinhoyi recently that she moved out of ZANU PF on her own accord. Mujuru said that she was not dismissed by President Mugabe as alleged by the public but decided to move out from ZANU PF after realising that the alleged barrage of attacks she received from the First Lady Dr Amai Grace Mugabe during her meet the people tours around the country had no end in sight.
Mujuru further said that her departure from the ruling party ZANU PF had been "inevitable" as she was always clashing with President Robert Gabriel Mugabe regularly over policy matters up to the time she decided to leave. Surprisingly Dr Mujuru who spent the better party of her life in government waited for the 2014 debacle to leave the party. She was always in government and did not see any reason to leave the party until the alleged attacks on her from the First Lady? He alleged clashes with the President on policy matters were not significance as causing her walk out from the party but only her personal attacks? Could such a person who values her personal interests more than those of the masses become a good leader? Food for thoughts for those rushing to her ZimPF party like people rushing to new dawns of prophets sprouting the country today.
What Dr Mujuru is not aware of is that everything is in the public domain that her alleged policy clashes with President Mugabe were fictitious because Zimbabweans have never come across with such allegations before her dismissal from both ZANU PF and government. If it was true that she was ever clashing with President Mugabe on policy matters she could have shown the world by leaving the party like what she is claiming that she did in 2014 after her alleged attacks from the First Lady.
What the Zimbabweans know about Dr Mujuru is that since 1980 she was in government holding different ministries until she was appointed Vice President of Zimbabwe in 2004 making her second in command in both the government and the ruling party ZANU PF. With that influential position being in government, Mujuru got the comfort zone of being the VP getting her to amass wealth using state machinery. All the ZANU PF policies which were implemented during her time in government were done in agreement with all those who were in cabinet including herself. Now that she is no longer in government she wants the public to believe her that she was regularly clashing with President Mugabe on policy matters. Is that not cheap politicking?
She should not forget that during an interview by Blessing Zulu of the Studio 7 on the 9th of December 2014, Mujuru declared that she didn't know any other party other than ZANU PF and that it was her party. She further declared that she was going to die in ZANU PF. Surpringly, just a year after her declaration that she would die in ZANU PF, she now finds herself being a leader of an opposition political party running by the name ZimPF. She has forgotten that she told Blessing Zulu that she would die in ZANU PF and the revolutionary is her only party she knew. It that not being mischievous?
As if her wrongful declaration that she would die in ZANU PF and her subsequent formation of the ZimPF party is not enough, Dr Mujuru told his supporters in Chinhoyi recently that she was not dismissed from government but moved out on her own accord. Mujuru`s actions points to someone who has no confidence on her actions. She is always shifting goal posts in order to satisfy certain situations at a given time. Why is she now claiming that she was not dismissed from ZANU PF yet during her interview with Blessing Zulu she did not reveal that? She only said that she would die in ZANU PF and she failed to say that she was no longer party and parcel of ZANU PF during that interview. She did not tell Zulu that she had already left the ruling party. Is that not hypocrisy?
The fact that she declared she would die in ZANU PF and later dumped that party to form an opposition political party shows that she is desperate for political aggrandisement. Her move to form a political party vindicates those who were always saying that she was power hungry in ZANU PF and was ready to remove President Mugabe from office as to take over the leadership of both the revolutionary party and government. Her formation of ZimPF has nothing to do with bringing relief to the economic turnaround of Zimbabwe but that has do with catapulting herself to the leadership of Zimbabwe which she failed to do while in ZANU PF.
Dr Mujuru`s claim that she walked out from ZANU PF because she did not contain the alleged barrage of attacks she received from the First Lady Dr Amai Grace Mugabe shows that she was selfish only thinking of her personal aggrandisement. If she was someone who was there for the people she could have walked out of ZANU PF on her alleged clash with the President on policy matters. There was no need to wait until she received that alleged attacks from the First Lady.
Her failure to leave ZANU PF during her alleged clash on policy matters with President Mugabe shows that she has no people at heart only wants herself to remain in good position to amass a lot of wealth using state machinery like what she has been doing since 1980.
Source - John Mukumbo
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