Opinion / Columnist
Mujuru's inconsistencies unpalatable
05 Mar 2016 at 08:07hrs | Views
SINCE the 2014 dismissal of Dr Joice 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, Dr Mujuru has shown that she struggles to remain consistent in saying out some real issues that satisfy the public on why she was dismissed.
The ZimPF party leader, Dr 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, Dr Mujuru wants the people to believe her own version 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.
Dr Mujuru said 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.
Dr Mujuru further said her departure from the ruling party Zanu-PF had been "inevitable" as she was always clashing with President Mugabe regularly over policy matters up to the time she decided to leave.
Surprisingly Dr Mujuru who spent the better part 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?
The alleged clashes with the President on policy matters were not of significance as to cause 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 thought for those rushing to her ZimPF party like people rushing to new dawns of prophets sprouting across 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 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 Government and the ruling party, Zanu-PF.
With that influential position being in Government, Dr Mujuru got into the comfort zone of being the VP.
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 inconsistent and she has never checked her previous statements in order to correct such anomalies from what she could have said previously.
Dr 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.
Dr 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 December 9, 2014, Dr 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. Surprisingly, 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.
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 her supporters in Chinhoyi recently that she was not dismissed from government but moved out on her own accord.
Dr Mujuru`s actions points to someone who has no confidence in 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 Zulu she did not reveal that? She only said she would die in Zanu-PF and she failed to say that she was no longer part 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 office.
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.
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.
The ZimPF party leader, Dr 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, Dr Mujuru wants the people to believe her own version 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.
Dr Mujuru said 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.
Dr Mujuru further said her departure from the ruling party Zanu-PF had been "inevitable" as she was always clashing with President Mugabe regularly over policy matters up to the time she decided to leave.
Surprisingly Dr Mujuru who spent the better part 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?
The alleged clashes with the President on policy matters were not of significance as to cause 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 thought for those rushing to her ZimPF party like people rushing to new dawns of prophets sprouting across 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 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 Government and the ruling party, Zanu-PF.
With that influential position being in Government, Dr Mujuru got into the comfort zone of being the VP.
It is surprising that Dr Mujuru`s statements have been inconsistent and she has never checked her previous statements in order to correct such anomalies from what she could have said previously.
Dr 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.
Dr 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 December 9, 2014, Dr 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. Surprisingly, 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.
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 her supporters in Chinhoyi recently that she was not dismissed from government but moved out on her own accord.
Dr Mujuru`s actions points to someone who has no confidence in 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 Zulu she did not reveal that? She only said she would die in Zanu-PF and she failed to say that she was no longer part 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 office.
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.
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.
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