By Own Correspondent- Deputy minister of Information and Publicity Energy Mutodi has hinted that President Emmerson Mnangagwa could have deliberately ignored Thursday’s invitation to a churches dialogue prayer meeting in retaliation to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa’s failure to attend the pre dialogue meeting he had organised on Wednesday.

The meeting, hosted by the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, was a church initiative aimed at bringing together the country’s national leaders towards bringing consensus on dialogue.

Speaking after the breakfast prayer meeting, Mutodi lashed out at Chamisa and said he was playing difficult despite “knocking repeatedly on President Mnangagwa’s door”.

Said Mutodi:

“How can the President come when Chamisa also did not come to State House for the brainstorming of the negotiations?

We cannot always be the ones to come to the negotiation table when others do not. We cannot always come to the negotiation table on the terms and dictates of other people.

We have set up the platform for negotiation. We have called all political parties to State House. The State House belongs to government. So everyone was supposed to come.

We do not need that dialogue. We had not called for that dialogue in the first place . It was him (Chamisa) who has always been knocking on President Mnangagwa’s door for dialogue.”