By Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo |Pro Nelson Chamisa MDC youths violently stormed Rujeko Hall where party members were holding a ward executive meeting, turned down tables and disrupted a Church service in the process.
There was a ward 7 executive meeting at the hall last week and a group of at least 10 pro Chamisa youths stormed the hall accusing the ward executive, largely made up of pro MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai supporters, of sabotaging party activities and suppressing dissenting voices.
The youths physically bashed, and pushed away attendants creating an atmosphere of both fury and intense trepidation.
“There was pandemonium at Rujeko Hall when drunk youths sympathetic to Chamisa stormed the hall and demanded the resignation of the ward 7 Masvingo Urban executive,” said a senior ward executive.
“The youths accused the executive of being used by Tsvangirai to suppress divergent views. They disrupted a Church service on their way to the inner chamber of the hall where the meeting was being held ,” they added.
Tsvangirai is said to be struggling to contain dissenting voices since the 2014 congress which saw former National Organising Secretary Nelson Chamisa being relegated to a less influencial post of Secretary for Research and Policy.
Sources alleged to ZimEye.com Tsvangirai is working with Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora to cripple Chamisa who is seen as a threat to the former premier’s grip at the helm of the opposition party. Mwonzora has dismissed those claims as frivolous and false.
With donor fatigue taking its toll on the labour backed party, it appears Tsvangirai’s hopes of winning the 2018 elections are vanishing by the day.
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Naita can you follow Tsvangy blindly like that? can’t you see that Nelson is good?
wilbert why not start your own party and beat Tsvangirayi and demand reforms yourself?
To me Chamisa supporters are wrong, there was an election and Chamisa lost so why do they want him thru the back door, he should strategise? Why is the media blaming MT when we all know Chamisa contested and lost he should have complained of rigging he did not, meaning he lost so why does he want to cause unnecessary disunity. These youths are the ones who are suppressing other people’s views who think Chamisa failed last time he was and true he failed. he would sit with some aspiring candidates in his office at Harvest house whilst approving confirmations in their constituencies. These guys would walk out of Chamisa’s office only to hear confirmations have already been done. Chamisa was in this instance a crook.
MDC has proven to be breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent; what they did during the GNU is simply unforgivable, they have lost all political credibility.
By continuing to follow such incompetent leaders Zimbabweans are sending a clear message to the world that the nation is not yet ready to be taken seriously when it comes to democratic change!