By Jane Mlambo| Manicaland Senator and former MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora has ignited a social media war following his post in which he hailed the late founding party leader Morgan Tsvangirai for what he described as selflessness and his vision for unity.
Mwonzora vowed to resist any machinations to divide the movement while hailing Tsvangirai for ‘making sure the people’s struggle was centred on people issues.’
“With President Tsvangirai in one of his meet-the-people tours in Ruwa. He abhored selfishness and made sure that the people’s struggle was centered on people issues. We shall follow his vision. We will no tolerate any attempts to divide our great Movement,” said Mwonzora.
The message was construed as an attack on current party leader Nelson Chamisa with hordes of social media attacking the veteran politician for seeking to push personal vendetta against current leadership following his congress loss to Charlton Hwende.
Leading the pack was motormouth journalist Hopewell Chin’ono who accused Mwonzora of seeking to divert the attention of Zimbabweans from bread and butter issues and nursing a 2019 congress grudge.
“Zimbabweans DON’T need this at this point in time @DMwonzora. We have NO water, electricity, jobs, medical care, hospitals have no medicines & a main opposition functionary is investing in factional battles?! Do you accept the MDC Congress outcome or not?” wrote Chin’ono.
“Someone was butchered and arrested and always on the runs with Zanu pf brutality and tgen someone was enjoying the benefits of destroying Tekere and ZUM.He got another assignment go and destroy MDC and with MDC’s naivity he was embraced and now he is still trying.anyangira yaona,” responded another Twitter user.
Another user by the name @TellinCalvin wrote, “I think we “ordinary supporters” hve tolerated you for too long Douglas… Don’t cry foul when we finally decide to shake nhata off our murivoooooo.”
But Mwonzora was not without his own supporters who hailed him for what they described as telling it as it is.
“The kind of LEADERSHIP that has disappeared in our party. Now we have someone WHO KNOWS IT ALL, who has EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL and has THE TOTAL SUPPORT of HIS GOD who IS IN IT TOO,” another user responded in support of the underfire Manicaland Senator.