By Givemore Madzudzo| The President of Mdc is none other than Prof. Welshman Ncube. He won that right when they split from Morgan Tsvangirayi who moved on & mutated into Mdc-T.
It’s wrong for that important fact to be ignored.
Thokozani Khupe just like Welshman Ncube took over Mdc-T, & just like Morgan Tsvangirayi Nelson Chamisa & colleagues moved on to have Mdc-Alliance as a party.
As for Douglas Mwonzora & Hon. Komichi, the constitution doesn’t only become sacrosanct after losing an election at a Congress of an illegal body. Why did these constitutionally alive gentlemen participate in illegalities?
Curiously, the 2 who became vociferous supporters of constitutionalism are all losers of an election. This brings to question the drive behind their zeal. Their hypocrisy stinks to high heavens.
Nothing here is being done for the benefit of Khupe, she is just a tin carrying their ambitions which they will discard upon sharing the contents.
Mwonzora has tried to play an amazing political genius, if he had won according to his secretive cleverly twined machinations it could have turned out to be a near Bismarck-like way of playing politics. The man has gone behind the scenes sponsoring unknown people to challenge his colleagues results of which of they had gone the small men’s way could have favoured him & sets him on the way to the Presidency without disturbing the support base. Unfortunately, whilst he had support from powers greatest in this land, the terrain does not favour him. He is not just made for it.
This is not about Khupe, it certainly is nothing about Komichi, Mwonzora is the genius frustrated into selling himself out for those with eyes.
However Komich is in it for revenge. He feels Chamisa should have protected him from democracy. He simply needed to give him a post against democratic tenets. He wanted Chamisa to play it the Zanu Pf way. His desire for vengeance is the tool they are using for his political grave. Chamisa felt, after the political dirty, a return to democracy was needed. All top leadership needed to sell themselves to the people. Whereas Komichi is not your effective politician, yes he can be tough but it ends there. Even his Abhurahama song was a huge bore to the electorate. He just doesn’t have it & he isn’t a good reader of political weather. It was good that Chamisa would just keep him somewhere there.
It should as well be emphasised that in its presidency, the Mdc-A has the most formidable outfit never seen before in Zimbabwe. All 3 are a capable lot which would keep Chamisa looking behind his shoulders. Who wouldn’t? Compare them with what Zanu Pf has. Chamisa vs ED, the information “tankiness” of Tendai Biti vs axe wielding Kembo Mohadi, Constantino Chiwenga vs the easiness & genius of Prof Welshman Ncube! Komichi aikwana sei ipapo when people are given a choice?
The electorate went for brains, they chose appeal rather than mediocrity fully represented by the docility of Hon. Komichi.
It is equally strange for all voices to now come up in condemnation of Chamisa when they were quiet when Tsvangirayi set this ball into motion. He didn’t call for a first congress of Mdc-T after breaking away from the original which Welshman Ncube took over. In other words Tsvangirayi broke away from Mdc, aware of his political clout & left Welshman & his colleagues to drive the old bus, nobody queried why they didn’t hold a first congress!
When Tsvangirayi was on his death-bed, Thokozani Khupe was nowhere near. She had distanced herself & had begun working her on thing. One wonders if she was aware that Morgan will die. Suddenly upon hearing the news of his death she lost all sense of shame & even wanted to participate at the funeral aware of the political repercussions!
Political supporters are not PR students, their behaviour is unpredictable. A worse scene could have been witnessed because Thokozani poked an unknown quantity knowingly by her presence. Thank God, a timely intervention happened. If this group baying for her blood were extremely unreasonable they couldn’t have stood Oppah Muchinguri & others. They were only provoked because they knew Thokozani had allienated herself from Morgan when he was alive. They wanted to punish her open hypocrisy.
Based on information & political gamesmanship, Morgan took in Engineer Mudzuri & Nelson Chamisa as deputies. If he really trusted Khupe who now masquerade as wanting to keep the “legacy of our icon Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirayi” (her words), why did he quickly pick the other two at that juncture. From my reading, Tsvangirayi knew he no longer had a deputy in Khupe. Tsvangirayi foresaw trouble and acted, there is something he saw in Chamisa & Mudzuri whilst lacking in Khupe.
Curiously, Morgan made Mudzuri acting President of the Mdc-T & Chamisa acting as Mdc-Alliance President whilst Thokozani was left in the cold. She was left only in charge of her household. That was very telling.
As it stands, had Morgan not succumbed, it’s very telling that Khupe could still have formed her own outfit. The difficulty only could have been naming it Mdc-T since the Mr T could have been alive. Whilst Chamisa is no angel, it is the analytical hypocrisy of some learned & leading gurus to paint Khupe an innocent angel that is worse than shocking! Chamisa is a politician, he played the game in the mud where all the pigs are in. But Tsvangirayi had surely elevated him for some reason that is subject to speculation by us, the living.
For those who think Chamisa lost the right to call upon God’s name, may they please study their bibles with their thinking caps on. They need to study who Moses was, who Joseph was, who Daniel was, who David was. They need to ask themselves who owns the people politicians are supposed to lead? How can God who came here to die be not interested in the personalities who govern His sacred work?