By Rudo Saungweme
The MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has been castigated by citizens for calling for protests in Zimbabwe at a time the MDC led Councils are failing to deliver basic services such as clean water and sanitation to people.
Taking to his twitter handle one netizen called The Pan Africanist @LocalGuy24 posted, “When you fail to deliver on minor services such as basics of service delivery, in the municipalities that you run. There are potholes everywhere, no running tap water, the CBD is dirty and it stinks. I came to the city with fellow villagers; I had to take them to rural joints because of embarrassment.
“You are talking and dreaming,” he tweeted.
Another netizen Elijah Chihota @ChihotaElijah tweeted, “Keep on dreaming. Twenty years down the line you still utter the same story. You run thirty two local authorities what is there to show that you have the capability? You are still babies drink milk and leave meat to the politically mature,” he tweeted.
Masimba Kambarami @simzkambarami tweeted that the protests will never happen considering the way they frustrated their own MDC supporters.
“That is day dreaming, if one considers the way you argued with Mudzuri, the way you attacked Khupe, the way you frustrated Mwonzora and the way your supporters attack non MDC supporters on social media, there is no democracy in your party. I can see a bloodbath for non MDC supporters,” he tweeted.
Meanwhile the MDC party is experiencing internal party fissures.
A source within the party, who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the fissures have been drawn between a group in the party calling itself the “academic group” which has Chamisa backing against another going by the moniker the “organic group” comprising mainly of the “old guard.”
The source said that Chamisa is aligned to the “academics” faction whilst MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora, MDC Vice Chairman Job Sikhala and MDC Vice President Tendai Biti are aligned to the “old guard.”
The Source added that there is strong feeling in the party that the split could happen before 2023 general elections.
