Paul Nyathi|The MDC Vice President Engineer Ellias Mudzuri has allegedly issued a statement announcing that the party congress will be held in February and not in October as said by party President Nelson Chamisa.
In a yet to be verified statement issued to ZimEye.com by highly placed sources within the party, Mudzuri highly condemns party Vice President Morgan Komichi for announcing at a rally in Mutoko over the weekend that Chamisa will not be contested.
Full statement provided to ZimEye.com reads as follows:
PRESS RELEASE|MY attention has been drawn to some conflicting reports about the exact date of the MDC Congress and the vacant offices to be filled.
Please be informed as i do hereby that the Congress is elective , meaning all positions are open for contest .
The Congress is due on or before 28 February 2019. Initially it was due in October but the National Council which is the supreme Organ of the Party in between Congress resolved sometime in February this year to appoint Chamisa to act for 12 calendar months thereby trigering a Congress date to February 2019.
No individual in the Party can set aside a National Council Resolution .
An elective Congress is where all positions are subject to renewal by Congress delegates. No amount of vilification of other aspiring Presidential candidates can take away such constitutional rights . In any case MDC must act differently from Zanu pf.
This Congress must not be treated as a Chamisa/ Mudzuri/ Mwonzora fight but an internal MDC democratic process to renew some mandates.
Party members are also advised to stop using public social media groups to potray the MDC as a house on fire. Let us find one another.
Senator Morgan Komichi’s utterances in Mutoko recently are not only reckless but very unfortunate and irresponsible as they potray our esteemed Acting President as a young Mussolin or the Ida Amin of yester year.
Thank you
Eng E Mudzuri
MDC Vice President