Staff reporter

The MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa took aim at his colleagues in that party’s top echelons, labelling them fraidy-cats who had no spine to stand firm when the struggle heats up.

Chamisa fired the shot during a recently held National Standing Committee (NSC) meeting in Harare.

“He (Chamisa) was very furious and nobody was spared. He told fellow leaders that he was in possession of intelligence on the intention of some in the leadership to skip the country when political violence hots up. He bluntly told his lieutenants that they were cowards,” said an insider.

Chamisa is reportedly planning a bloody pre-election environment and some of his top leaders are against the idea and are already making contingent plans to run away before the 2023 Harmonised Elections. The source said the MDC Alliance intelligence unit is seized with plans to make the 2023 elections the most violent since independence to discredit them as predictions are being made that   Party is going to lose massively.

“You are all folding your hands while I am being persecuted in the rural areas by ZANU. These persecutions should have triggered massive demonstrations if not war. Youth, where are you? This was unheard of during my time as chief of the youth assembly.

“It was during my time that the DRCs (Democratic Resistance Committees) were created and we could literally stand against any form of persecution. We could defend Morgan (Tsvangirai)  to death. We had the guts to confront the police in their camps and burn their properties. Today we have the youth that are weaklings. The war of liberation was waged by the youth, but you are failing to initiate a mere demonstration. We won’t go anywhere with this calibre of youth and leadership,” Chamisa is reported to have said.

The MDC Alliance leader has been touring the rural areas as part of the party’s rural penetration strategy. He has been accusing ZANU PF of blocking him from meeting the rural electorate, an allegation the later vehemently denied. In all this, the MDC Alliance leaders have been conspicuously mum, a move that has been attributed to factionalism.  Chamisa’s rival camp has been fingered in some of the demonstrations staged by purportedly “ZANU PF supporters” against him.