By A Correspondent- The interim Secretary of the opposition MDC-T, Douglas Mwonzora has been suspended from the party by the interim party president, Thokozani Khupe, following the chaos that rocked the party’s extraordinary congress held at the Harare International Conference Centre this Sunday.

Morgen Komichi and Khupe left the HICC in a huff as they were being attacked by individuals allegedly aligned to Mwonzora. Senator Mwonzora says he cannot be dismissed from the party by a fellow candidate.

Said Mwonzora:

“I expect them (Khupe and Komichi) to cool down, to relax and accept the verdict of the people. I don’t think it is a split. A split is where the owners of the MDC T split. The owners of the MDC in this regard are intact and as you see, as you saw it was individual candidates who saw how the election was going who have moved out.

The members of congress remained and resolved that they should continue and they have continued. I can’t be suspended by a fellow candidate in an election during an election. And in a few minutes, hours time we will have a new president and it is up to that president and the national executive to deal with that matter. It is an act of illegality.”

The congress was meant to elect the party’s substantive heir to the late founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai.