By Paul Nyathi|Hardly two days after Elton Mangoma declared that his Coalition Of Democrats, CODE coalition, was the most stable, it has lost probably its most important alliance partner ZAPU.

The ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa announced in a statement on Friday that his party was inevitably pulling out of the coalition.

ZAPU pulled out of the coalition just twenty four hours ahead of the much talked about launch of the coalition set for Africa Unity Square in Harare on Saturday.

Mangoma’s Friday the 13th could be the most horrific as he also received at the same time a letter from the official Zimbabwe First Party lawyers ordering him and his coalition principal partner Derreck Lupemba to immediately withdraw using the ZimFirst name as one of the coalition partners.

Dabengwa said that the party will be issuing a full statement over the weekend on why they opted out of the coalition.

ZAPU incorporated former CODE principal Barbara Nyagomo’s Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe into its structures to establish a united party in the name of ZAPU.

Nyagomo and ZimFirst leader Dr Maxwell Zeb Shumba both accused Mangoma of being a dictator and failed political leader when they quit CODE.

Comment could not immediately be obtained from Mangoma on the issue and plans for Saturday launch in the wake of the new developments.