I have witnessed with shock the excitable elements jumping into the bandwagon to lump treason, banditry, insurgency and coup plotting on my part over a political banter of a statement I made in Bikita addressing villagers.

The shocking part comes as a result of a deliberate distortion of the import of the said statement in question.

The only coup the people of Zimbabwe will ever witness in their lifetime is the 17 November 2017 not any other one generated from me nor the MDC.

Let it be clear that the MDC nor anyone associated with it will never engage in any unconstitutional way of assuming the governance of our country.

If anything is to be said the MDC is the party of constitutionalism and legality. All its conduct and actions will be guided by constitionalism and nothing more or nothing less.

The overthrow word deliberately misconstrued is economic pressure compounded by the legitimacy question that should be definitely addressed before 2023.

It helps no one to incite the regime against me over the prediction that can either come out true or false.

Until such time when the legitimacy question is addressed the crisis Zimbabwe is facing is unsustainable until 2023.

A stolen victory impoverishes the nation and it needs an urgent solution that can only come through dialogue to avert a tragic disaster.

HON Job Sikhala
MDC Vice National Chairperson