Shyleen Mtandwa | ZimEye.com can confirm that the People’s Democratic Party led by former Finance Minister, Tendai Biti, will tomorrow officially sign in as a member of the Coalition Of Democrats (CODE), at a function to be held in the capital, Harare.
Biti had a nasty public fall out with former Vice President, Joice Mujuru, leading to her stealing his deputy Sipepa Nkomo and other members in a bid to weaken his support base. In a new twist Mujuru is engaged in a bitter struggle to maintain her leadership of Zim People First as internal leadership wrangles threaten to destroy the new kid on the block in Zimbabwe’s politics.
Biti will join the coalition alongside Barbara Nyagomo of the Progressive Democrats party.
The former MDC- T Secretary General has been stalling joining the coalition, which includes the Welshman Ncube led MDC and Elton Mangoma’s RDZ until recently when major opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai officially ruled out a possibility of him going into a coalition with Biti. More to follow…
This GNU talk of yours is now boring – you have said this before; now you are saying it for the umpteenth time – does that change anything?
Its now water under the bridge; everybody knows they wasted chances. They also admit they make mistakes. Its now water under the bridge; time to move ahead with new strategies with lessons learnt from the GNU fiasco.
This time around, lets call on Trump who has no time for diplomatic niceties!!
No amount of jazzing up this opposition coalition project will change the reality on the ground – as long as Zanu PF have the license to rig the elections. The party will engineer ways to stop opposition supporters voting or force them to vote for Zanu PF whilst rolling out the red carpet to Zanu PF supporters to ensure they vote and even cast multiple votes – that is what voting rigging means!
Zimbabwe’s opposition have known all along that Zanu PF has been rigging elections ever since they got into power soon after independence. Tsvangirai and his MDC friends Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube, etc. had the best chance during the GNU to implement democratic reforms designed to stop Zanu PF rigging future elections. Sadly they failed to get even one reform implemented because Mugabe bribed them with the trappings of power and a $4 million Highlands mansion for Tsvangirai. They, in turn, kicked all reforms into the tall grass to please their benefactor, Mugabe.
SADC leaders tried their best to get the MDC leaders to implement the reforms but their advice fell on deaf ears.
MDC leaders took part in the 2013 elections with no reform in place only because they were after the few seats they knew Zanu PF would give away to encourage opposition parties to contest elections. It is for the same reason that MDC and everyone else in the opposition are set to contest next year’s elections. They know the elections will be rigged, they are making a big song and dance about forming a coalition just to stop the people asking why contest an election you know is flawed!
So, Biti is going to join CODE tomorrow; big deal!
Biti is a political prostitute