By Dorrothy Moyo| It is now a fast chase- ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnagagwa is going after his deputy, analysts have hinted.
Speaking during the Heal Zimbabwe forum on the Constitution Amendment, 2 weeks ago, the MDC’s Secretary For Legal Affairs, Kucaca Phulu, said Mnangagwa wants to twists the constitution saying ‘Chiwenga is challenging me.’
He said in full:
“I am not proposing that this constitution is perfect, that is not the issue. We should not find ourselves debating whether the constitution is perfect, the question is do we respect the Constitution? Once we start tearing it up now, where are we going to stop?
“There are other issues to do with elections, and I am going to explain to you why the philosophy, delimitation, there was a mechanism put to say let’s say fine, do delimitation once every 10 years but only after a census, there was a reason why that was done;
“but because we are [now] making amendments looking at 2023, this constitutional amendment is being made looking at 2023, this kind of clause becomes inconvenient, so we must tear it up.
“Chiwenga is challenging me, or there are rumours of Chiwenga challenging me, so I must tear up the Constitution.
“If you look through the tenor of the amendments, they tend to strengthen the president, and they weaken they weaken the Judiciary, Prosecutor General, they weaken everyone else. And so I would submit that this amendment is a symptom of an illegitimate president, who is attacking the Constitution. A legitimate president would not attack the constitution.
“So we are seeing – The evidence of the illegitimacy, is in how you treat the constitution, the matter is coming to a head, we are consolidating the coup. So there was the coup, then there was the stolen election, now there is the consolidation of the stolen power.
“So the coup really sets off the illegitimacy, the manner the election was conducted compounds the illegitimacy.
“The amendment consolidates the illegitimacy…”