Farai Dziva| MDC A Midlands Province has described the High Court ruling on the party presidency as “callous and biased.”
See Midlands Provincial secretary for Information and Publicity, Takavafira Zhou’s statement below:
Noting the 8th of May High Court ruling by Justice Edith Mushore as callous, a tissue of misrepresentation and a monument of Zimbabwean injustice.
Guided by institutional memory on the election of leaders in MDC since its formation in 1999, and in other political parties nationally, regionally, continental and globally.
Aware that our late icon and father of democracy in Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, used the powers vested in him by the 2014 National Congress to Appoint Engineer Mudzuri and Advocate Nelson Chamisa as Vice Presidents.
Realising that before his death, our iconic leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, mooted the broad MDC Alliance, and confided in leaders like Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti to support Chamisa in the pursuit of revitalising the spirit of unity in MDC as in 1999.
Aware that Thokozani Khupe had become a renegade, prejudiced and narrow-minded leader even before the death of Tsvangirai.
Cognisant of the fact that it was the National Council, as the highest decision making body in between Congress, that appointed Adv Nelson Chamisa as acting President and finally as President until our National Congress, which Congress is pencilled for 24 to 26 May 2019.
Aware that in pursuit of unity after the death of Tsvangirai, President Chamisa condemned violence in MDC and sent emissaries to the then Vice President Khupe to no avail.
Noting that President Chamisa has fit squarely into the shoes of our late iconic leader, Tsvangirai, carrying the struggle of the people; the struggle for food and jobs; peace; dignity, decency and democracy; equal distribution of resources; and justice, transparency and equality of all Zimbabweans.
Knowing that he has continued to carry the explicit democratic agenda of democratising the state through a peaceful transition of the ballot box as opposed to the bullet and in the process increased the democratic dividend votes to 2.6 million.
Convinced that the MDC is on course in its preparation of a National Congress in Gweru from 24th to 26th May 2019.
Ready to host that National Congress as Midlands Province, comprising 28 districts.
We now therefore, unreservedly, unswervingly, unwaveringly, unshakably, trustily, solidly, steadily, unflinchingly, valiantly and gallantly declare our loyalty and support to our dynamic, enthusiastic, considerate and forward looking President, Nelson Chamisa.
We declare as Midlands Province, without any rancor or equivocation that never in history have courts given political parties their leaders.
At any rate Nelson Chamisa is President of the MDC and not MDC-T.
While the national leadership focus on how best to respond to the courts we want to make it clear that Khupe has lost any fibre to be our President. She has conducted her own Congress with her own supporters and abandoned us.
We stand where we stood under Tsvangirai and will continue to stand there under Chamisa. No amount of legal ruling can change this reality. No legal ruling or Zanu PF flirtation or romance with any MDC discarded residue can stop an idea whose time is up.
Adv. Chamisa is our best foot forward, and as Midlands Province will guard jealously such best foot.
Dr Takavafira M. Zhou
Midlands Province Spokesperson
