MDC-T vice president Mr Obert Gutu on Saturday went on his usual rantings about the President Emmerson Mnangagwa initiated Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) claiming that party leaders who opted out of the one sided dialogue are ill advised.

Gutu a former opposition MDC spokesperson claimed that the dialogue launched by President Mnangagwa in February this year was making progress, progress which so far has not been visible to the ordinary Zimbabwean.

Since the dialogue started, the country’s economic and political conditions have been on a severe downfall exposing Zimbabweans to suffering worse than even during former President Robert Mugabe’s era.

Pictures of the dialogue partners feasting with the President at State House and sleeping at top hotels in the capital have been the only visible outcome from the dialogue so far.

Writing on his Twitter handle, Mr Gutu said only “ill-informed” people would not take the dialogue seriously

“We attended a POLAD meeting at State House with President ED on Friday, June 14, 2019. Misguided and ill-informed people think we went for the food. No! We can buy our own food. We raised extremely pertinent & relevant issues that we think ED should urgently attend to,” reads the tweet.

To date, 19 of 23 political parties that took part in the July 31 harmonised elections last year, have joined the dialogue.

Leader of the main opposition, MDC, Nelson Chamisa refused to join the dialogue, setting reasonable dialogue conditions amongst which is the demand for a neutral mediator to preside over the dialogue.

The Daniel Shumba-led United Democratic Alliance (UDA) initially joined the dialogue, but later withdrew also indicating that it was not fair for Mnangagwa to be the one leading the engagement process.

Joice Mujuru (National People’s Party) and Noah Manyika (Build Zimbabwe) have also snubbed the dialogue claiming precisely the same stance that Chamisa has been raising on the talks.