The MDC Renewal Team is this weekend holding its elective congress which will see the party electing its substantive leaders as insider reports suggest that Tendai Biti, the secretary general has been nominated unopposed and will take over the party as interim leader Sipepa Nkomo deputises him.
The splinter group from the Morgan Tsvangirai led MDC will at the three day long congress which starts on the 21st of august up to the 23rd is also going to adopt and unveil the Party’s name, symbol and logo.
“We are also going to unveil the Party’s Key Policies and our much awaited economic blue print we have called Holistic Program for Economic Transformation (HOPE) which proposes real solutions to challenges that Zimbabwe is facing today,” Jacob Mafume the party’s spokesperson told ZimEye.com on Monday.
While avoiding the Biti issue, Mafume continued saying, “this is the platform which the party is going to unveil all its democratic process such as the Party’s Constitution we will unveil the our electoral demands document an Agenda for the Restoration and Rehabilitation of Electoral Sustainability (ARREST ) and the roadmap we are going to follow as a way forward”.
Mafume said the congress will run under the theme Reclaiming Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile a report that Biti is taking over the party gripped the movement and as at Monday afternoon, insiders were jostling for posts.
“We know Advocate Biti is taking over and no one can question that,” one male member said. Their claims were not officially corroborated at the time of writing. Efforts to reach Mr Biti for a comment were fruitless at the time of writing.