By Paul Nyathi|Cracks are beginning to emerge in the MDC Alliance coalition with threats that the coalition maybe facing an imminent collapse.
This follows for instance open complaints by Transform Zimbabwe leader, Jacob Ngarivhume who has said his party is being prejudiced. Tendai Biti’s PDP has had its share of problems which even led to its split at the beginning.
ZimEye.com sources within the Alliance indicated that members of the coalition partners are clashing heavily on the candidates being selected to represent the coalition in the upcoming elections.
The sources indicated that the MDC-T is heavily encroaching into the candidates selection processes of other partners.
The MDC-T which is the bigger partner to the coalition and retains more than half the seats allocation is reportedly insisting that it will have a final say on the candidates selected by the other partners.
“It’s very difficult working with the MDC-T members on the ground as they keep telling people that they are the directors of the coalition and they will have the final say in the candidates to represent the coalition,” said the source.
“What is disturbing further is that the MDC-T is busy setting up candidates in the constituencies that have not been allocated to them,” complained the source.
The sources from the so called smaller partners to the coalition further claimed that the MDC-T is controlling all the coalition meetings and public rallies at all levels giving the other partners very little space and recognition in the meetings.
“The MDC-T is literally taking the Alliance to be its extension. All meetings and rallies are dominated by the MDC-T and they give us very little time and space to be seen at the rallies,” complained the source who insisted on not being identified.
“They are even distributing MDC-T regalia to our members so much that in the end the gatherings become one sided. The slogans and songs chanted at all the meetings and rallies are MDC-T,” cried the source who is a member of the Tendai Biti led PDP.
The MDC-T members are on record threatening that they will challenge MDC Alliance coalition candidates if what they termed mediocre candidates are fielded in the elections.
Efforts to get a comment from the MDC-T National Chairman Morgan Komichi who is at the forefront of coordination of the Alliance candidates processes could not be obtained at the time of writing.