"I was part of ZAPU team who supported President Chamisa's presidency before 2018. You all saw Chamisa holding hands with Dumiso Dabengwa in Bulawayo before" elections. 

Perennial opposition politician Barbara Nyagomo has sensationally disclosed that the MDC turned down her offer to join the leadership of the party instead advising her to join the party at grassroots level as an ordinary member.

Nyagomo is a Zimbabwean politician, nurse, and philanthropist based in the UK. She is the founder and President of the Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe (PDZ) political party. Before starting her own party Nyagomo was the Zapu Europe Vice-chairperson.

In the run up to the 2018 elections she struck a deal with the Dumiso Dabengwa led ZAPU to have her party integrated into ZAPU as an election pact.

She is believed to have had an influential role in getting MDC leader Nelson Chamisa into relations with the late ZAPU leader and liberation war stalwart Dumiso Dabengwa.

“MDC told me to join and start at Branch level. Is it because I am not a Lawyer or coz I am an uneducated woman with Serious Rural Background (SRB),” said Nyagomo on her social media pages.

Without mentioning it, Nyagomo was referring to the MDC’s admission of lawyer Fadzai Mahere into the party after she contested last year’s elections as an independent candidate on failing to be the main opposition party’s candidate. She was subsequently appointed into the MDC Standing Committee as Secretary for Education.

“I was part of ZAPU team who supported President Chamisa’s presidency before 2018. You all saw Chamisa holding hands with Dumiso Dabengwa in Bulawayo before” elections. Have I not served my country and people well?” Nyagomo questioned.

She echoed an on-going public assertion that the MDC leadership is made up of predominantly lawyers which she believes failed her being recognised by the party.

“Is it a Law Firm or a political party?”

Mahere, a human rights lawyer, joined mainstream politics in June 2017 when she announced she was going to run as an independent candidate for the 2018 elections in Harare’s Mount Pleasant constituency.

She lost to MDC Alliance’s Samuel Banda.