Own Correspondent|State media on Wednesday morning woke up to screaming headlines that the newly-elected MDC Treasurer General David Coltart says opposition leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has no capacity to turn around the country’s economy “in months”, even if he were to become President “tomorrow”.

According to the media Coltart said that the opposition party was not in a position to convince the electorate to vote for it, an extremely far fetched reporting by the media that has failed to find anything positive from the just ended highly successful MDC congress where Coltart is said to have raised the comment.

Actually, Coltart is quoted by independent newspapers having indicated that once the MDC government comes into power it will introduce economic policies that will gradually clean the mess of of over forty years that the ZANU PF government has created in the country.

“If Nelson Chamisa became President of Zimbabwe tomorrow, he would not be able to turn around the fortunes of Zimbabwe in a day, in weeks, in a few months.

“The problems in our nation are deep rooted and are gonna take a lot of determination . . .” Coltart is quoted as having said by the private media.

Coltart in the interview with the private media never hinted that the MDC can not convince the electorate to vote for it but, said that the new MDC leadership will turn around the running of the party so much that it will make the electorate have a belief that the party can run the country even better.

He said: “. . . we cannot say to the electorate, now I am talking way beyond the members here, I am talking about the rank and file who are not members of the MDC; we cannot say to them that we are qualified to run the country well if we can’t run our own party well.

“This is the starting point. That’s the challenge that we have in the next few years before the next elections. We have to show that we can run this party well, far more efficiently than it has been run. And then if we do that, not only are we going to energise our members and mobilise our members, but we can then demonstrate to the broader electorate that we are competent and capable to run this country . . .”