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MDC Alliance member, Barbara Nyagomo has slammed MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa for favouritism after he parachuted Fadzai Mahere into the party’s national leadership.
Mahere, who was politically of no fixed abode until her recent appointment as the party’s National Secretary for Education, has irked a number of the party’s faithfuls.
Nyagomo, who came into the Alliance on a ZAPU card, claims that when she sought to contest in that party’s internal elections process ahead of the 2019 Congress, she was told to join the party from branch level.
Nyagomo said: “MDC told me to join and start at Branch level. Is it because I am not a lawyer or because I am an uneducated woman with a serious rural background (SRB)?”
She added: “I was part of ZAPU team who supported president Chamisa's presidency before 2018. You all saw Chamisa holding hands with Dumiso Dabengwa in Bulawayo before elections.”
Nyagomo further quipped: “Have I not served my country and people well? Is it a Law Firm or a political party?”
She went further to attest that “those with wisdom can see the multiple failures by the organisation. There are good uneducated people who have been serving the party since its inception in 1999.
“Is the party that was formed for the workers, middle class and the poor now elite lawyers’ club?”
A political commentator, Gary Thwala Jackson, satirically said “my sister it’s because you are not popular, Chamisa picks anyone popular with Zimbabweans and gives them a powerful position in MDC regardless of what makes them popular.
“He’s obsessed with attention and making noise on social media while failing to figure out a good systematic way of conducting elections free and fair.”
The appointment of Mahere into the MDC National Standing Committee has been received with a lot of misgivings within the party, with some charging that the two are love birds. In a provincial executive meeting last week, Bulawayo Provincial Assembly Chairperson, James Sithole said the province was not happy with the appointment of the Johnny-come-lately, particularly Advocate Mahere.
