Farirai Madhumbe | MDC leader wanted to meet and talk to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, before he announced his Cabinet, Catholic priest father Fidelis Mukonori has revealed.

Father Mukonori who was mediator between former President Robert Mugabe and the military told the Jesuit Review that Tsvangirai had approached him to facilitate a meeting with Mnangagwa to chat a “way forward.”

Revelations by Father Mukonori come against a background of the MDC making spirited denials of having wanted to make “a deal”  with Mnangagwa as exposed by War Vets leader Christopher Mutsvangwa.

Reports the Jesuit Review,“He (Mukonori) has been meeting with Morgan Tsvangirai, a former prime minister who had led the opposition to Mr Mugabe through the Movement for Democratic Change Zimbabwe.

“Father Mukonori says that Mr Tsvangirai wanted to discuss a way forward for the country with the new president. But on the day of their second meeting, the newly inaugurated president announced his cabinet.”

Tsvangirai’s wish, according to the magazine, quoting Mukonori, “would have been that they discussed the issue before the new president announced his new government.”