Politoical Reporter
The MDC Alliance’s ambitious voter mobilization campaign targeting at least one million new first time voters has failed to gain traction with reports insinuating that the party has failed to penetrate the rural areas.
An impeccable source within the MDC Alliance’s Organising Department confessed to this publication that the voter mobilization is becoming a daunting task with most of that party’s meetings being shunned by the people.
“The voter mobilization campaigns are failing to lure new people to the party as we had anticipated. We had hoped that by now we could have penetrated most of the country’s rural areas. However, in meetings we held in Mashonaland Central and areas such as Chinhoyi and Hurungwe, we failed to attract reasonable crowds as people in those areas still appear to be attached to ZANU PF,” admitted the source.
The source further laid the blame on that party Organizing Secretary, Amos Chibaya. For failing to come up with strategies to effectively market that party as a viable alternative to the people.
“We are being let down by Chibaya. As the Organising Secretary, Chibaya was supposed to come up with ideas to rejuvenate the party but appears to be clueless. His arrogance is causing him not to ask for help from people like former Organising Secretary Abednego Bhebhe who has experience in mobilising people for the party,” said the source.
According to the source, the MDC Alliance mobilization programme is being hindered by lack of support by that party’s leadership. The source pointed out people such as that party’s co vice leaders Welshman Ncube and Lynnette Karenyi Kore as not being supportive of the mobilization programme.
The source added that some people who previously financed that party’s activities are being hesitant to support the mobilization programme because they don’t view Chibaya as the right man to lead the mobilization programme.
The MDC Alliance was planning to use the voter mobilization to lure voters to add to the slightly over two million votes that Nelson Chamisa garnered in 2018 presidential elections.
