Controversy-ridden MDC parliamentarian Priscilla Misihairabwi Mushonga has been secretly endorsed to replace Professor Welshman Ncube.
Impeccable high-ranking officers within the party have revealed to ZimEye.com a secret lobbying paper circulating amongst party members with a proposed new leadership of the party which eliminates Welshman Ncube and replaces him with Misihairabwi Mushonga as President. The proposed new set up is believed to have emanated from the party’s external provinces in South Africa and the United Kingdom and is slowly being sold to the provinces within the country.
When contacted for a comment, party Spokesperson Kurauone Chihwayi denied the development ever happening. “It is not true that  Misihairabwi was endorsed by any province, district or ward for the presidency of the MDC.
“Those are thoughts, dreams and wishes of drunkards. There is no vacancy for presidency in the MDC at the moment and those interested can wait until 2016,” he said.
He continued, “we are happy and very safe under the leadership of Professor Welshman Mathonsi Ncube.”
 
Pulling the Carpet on Ncube
But ZimEye.com is reliably informed Mushonga is set to pull the carpet from under the feet of longtime political ally Ncube on the Presidency at the party’s congress in January next year.
In the proposed paper, Veteran politician David Coltart is listed as Mushonga’s deputy while Moses Mzila comes in as the party Chairman. Miriam Mushayi is listed as the new Secretary General of the party.
Current Vice President Edwin Mushoriwa is listed as second Vice President of the party, a suggestion that the provinces will lobby for an amendment in the constitution as the party constitution does not provide for a second Vice President.
There existed at the time of writing however, some confusion in the list as another circulated stating that Prof Ncube will be the party’s Presidential candidate in the 2018 elections.
Other notable names in the list are Ngqabutho Nicolas Mabhena who is tagged as the party Organising Secretary deputised by a George Mkhwananzi. Allan Shiriyedenga is listed as Treasurer General.
Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo is proposed as the new party Spokesperson.
The list leaves out several regular names in the MDC in what the sources called a major clean up of the party.
“The party has been holding on to deadwood for a long time and it’s time a major clean up is done to build a party for the future,” said the source.
Misihairabwi Mushonga has been very controversial in the party with some members of the party recently calling for her dismissal.
She resigned from her post of party Secretary General under unclear circumstances claiming to wanted to remain as just a member of the party while retaining her parliamentary seat.
Mushonga earned the parliamentary seat representing Matabeleland South amid severe resistance from members who claimed she was not from the province.
On the other side Ncube is accused by party members of unilaterally declaring Mushonga’s candidature against the wishes of the ordinary party members in the area. Several party members quit the organisation as a result of Mushonga’s said forced candidature.
Mushonga was unavailable for commenting at the time of writing.