Information supplied to ZimEye.com by intelligence sources on Wednesday indicates that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is harbouring a grand plan with some former members of the mainstream main opposition party, the MDC, to anhilliate the Nelson Chamisa led party.

The plan is supposedly being worked around the recent ambiguous Supreme Court ruling which declared MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe as the successor to late Morgan Tsvangirai in leading the main opposition party.

According to the plan, Mnangagwa will wait for Khupe to hold an extraordinary congress as directed by the Supreme Court after which she will be enticed into signing for a National Transitional Authority with Mnangagwa.

The Transitional Authority will suspend elections there by giving Mnangagwa an opportunity to continue leading the country beyond 2023 when elections are meant to be held.

Mnangagwa is on record indicating that he will be the President of the country until 2030 which may be the time that the dubious Transitional Authority may call for elections.

Alex Tawanda Magaisa, a law lecturer in the United Kingdom has further broken down the perceived plan meant to weaken the opposition parties.

Posting on Twitter, Magaisa said:

“What is the game plan?

1. The regime wants a GNU with a weak and submissive opposition it can control. They can tell the world that they are now working with the MDC. The regime identified a weak seam in the opposition – a coterie of the disgruntled keen to join the gravy train
2. They want to amend the law in order to get rid of by-elections. Having dubiously & scandalously awarded the MDC Alliance seats to Khupe & associates they can fill the seats left vacant by any recalls without any contest, eliminating the risk of losing.
3. The GNU agreement will include a constitutional amendment to avoid elections for 7 years on the grounds of focusing on the economy. They will invite various “stakeholders” (make that stakeholders) including civil society & churches to make it look inclusive. A political fraud
4. There will be a concurrent campaign to discredit Chamisa and his colleagues in the MDC Alliance, including Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube. Virtually anything. Current MPs are already being offered trinkets and receiving threats in a carrot and stick strategy.
5. But none of this will confer legitimacy on the regime. The plan is to crush the head of the MDC Alliance with the help of opposition enablers. However, stealing opposition seats is one thing. Winning the hearts & minds of opposition supporters is a different proposition.
6. Manipulating political institutions and rearranging the deck chairs of the struggling ship is one thing. Saving it requires a lot more than that. The international community, whose support the regime is desperate for can see through these hideous political machinations.
7. None of the opposition characters that the regime has courted has the political capital to provide the respect & recognition that it’s desperate for in the international community. They know it but they will be very happy to join the feeding trough. So brace for a dubious GNU

Additional information from Alex Tawanda Magaisa Tweeter