Farai Dziva|The MDC Youth Assembly has applauded party leader Nelson Chamisa for refusing to join POLAD.

Below is a statement written by MDC Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Chuma:

The MDC Youth Assembly would like to applaud President Advocate Nelson Chamisa for refusing to join Emmerson Mnangagwa’s pulverized political monologue, POLAD.

As President Chamisa rightly opines, joining POLAD is akin to betrayal and selling out millions of this generation who yearn for real change.

It is not mendacious that real change can only be ushered in through genuine dialogue on reforms and not some extravagant banquet at Mnangagwa’s farm.

It is quite regrettable that the public media whose critical role is to inform has chosen to misinform the public by running propaganda bent on framing President Nelson Chamisa as anti- dialogue when in actual fact it is Mnangagwa who detests dialogue in favor of monologue.

As far as we are concerned, POLAD is nothing more than a club of the vanguished whose common goal is underlined by bitterness, thievery, extravagance and an unquenchable desperate desire for a social contract with the masses.

Even if we are to combine Emmerson Mnangagwa’s 33% presidential vote with less than 1% paltry votes garnered by his POLAD acolytes in 2018 elections, still they will be far short of the 50% threshold as per our constitutional provisions.

Dialogue by its very nature and definition is for warring parties and as far as POLAD is concerned, it is very clear that Thokozani Khupe, Lovemore Madhuku and cabal are in total agreement with Mnangagwa hence can not be part of any meaningful dialogue.

Given such circumstances, joining POLAD in its current state is akin to a fly following a corpse right into a dark grave.

The consequences of such is trouble for citizens!

It is the aggrieved winner of the 2018 Presidential vote, Nelson Chamisa, trade unions, under siege civil society, churches and of course the pepertrator, Emmerson Mnangagwa who must be at table of any meaningful dialogue to avert the current crisis.

It is against that background that we believe POLAD is nothing more than a circus and child’s play and as such it is not going to cure the legitimacy question which is the bedrock of the current crisis.

As MDC Youth Assembly, we once again reiterate our support to the People’s President Advocate Chamisa for his wisdom not to join Mnangagwa’s grave train dubbed POLAD.

Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
MDC Youth Assembly National Spokesperson