Opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has called on Zimbabweans to unite and set up a National Transitional Authority which will strive to revive the country’s economic challenges.

Addressing a press conference on what the opposition party called the State off the Nation Address, Chamisa backtracked from his previous demands where he wanted keys to State House following the 2018 elections which he insists President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling ZANU PF rigged.

Chamisa said he was inundated with calls daily from Zimbabweans wanting him to provide solutions and leadership to the country.

“I fully understand the pain of Zimbabweans, I associate with it everyday,” Chamisa said. “People are calling me wanting solutions, they want solutions from the person they voted for. I spoke about spaghetti roads, Mnangagwa has given us spaghetti queues.”

Chamisa said that his party is not calling for a government of national unity like the one that was entered into by former President Robert Mugabe and the late MDC founding President Morgan Tsvangirai and administered government between 2009 and 2013.

“The MDC wants a National Transitional Authority. This will be a creature of national discourse, we can’t map its contours and parameters now. We do not want repeat of the 2009 GNU, and our driving agenda is not about positions of power.”

Chamisa said no investor will come into a country where they are told country is open for business, when in fact “it is open for craziness.”

“To resolve the national crisis we have proposed a five point plan through a National Transitional Authority (NTA), constituting concrete steps to recover the people’s victory, your victory. We are clear about the path and formula this country should take to extricate itself from the current hardships imposed by this heartless illegitimate government.

The path to a Great Zimbabwe has the following sign posts. A 5 point plan which entails the following;
i. Immediately resolving and returning to legitimacy and the will of the people
ii. Undertaking comprehensive economic, political and electoral reforms
iii. Prioritising nation building and peace building
iv. End international isolation through collective engagement on the back of reforms
v. Resolving the emergency economic and humanitarian situation”