By Claver Nyuki
The MDC Provincial Organizing Secretaries have resolved to advocate for its National Executive Council (NEC) to ditch its ‘illegitimacy’ mantra against His Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to pave way for dialogue between him and MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, a source has revealed.
The highly placed source made the revelations that during one of the MDC platforms, the Organizing Secretaries were unanimous in their decision for the party to map a different political route, arguing that the ‘illegitimacy’ mantra had run its course.
“The MDC Organizing Secretaries have resolved to push the party’s NEC to seriously consider the issue of dialogue between Chamisa and President Mnangagwa.
“The Organizing Secretaries agreed also to push for the issue of dialogue to be put on the agenda of the 20th anniversary celebrations preparatory meeting to be held today, 27 September 2019,” the source added.
The source exposed that the Organizing Secretaries also deliberated on the recent parliamentary by-elections which the MDC was soundly beaten, reiterating the need to craft a new course of action, identifying dialogue as the best way forward.
“During the same platform, the Organising Secretaries analysed the recent parliamentary by-election results which the party won only in Glen View.
“They agreed that to salvage the party there was need for Chamisa and President Mnangagwa to emulate the late former President Robert Mugabe and the late Morgan Tsvangirai who buried the hatchet to focus on Zimbabwe’s economic stability and recovery,” the source also revealed.
The source also asserted that the resolution is likely to face resistance as the party is divided on the issue with those in support of dialogue while a few hardliners close to Chamisa are labeling dialogue as tantamount to selling out.
During his address at the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), President Mnangagwa revealed that Government has set up the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) platform for different political leaders to meet and discuss Zimbabwe’s economic challenges and come up with solutions together.
So far the MDC has snubbed this initiative, move political analysts construed as being selfish and only concerned with political power and self-gain.
Political analyst, Dr Khumbula Manyewe bluntly said, “The MDC, unlike ZANU PF, are pushing for dialogue as its angling for a Government of National Unit (GNU), it sees this as it trump card to get in power, while ZANU PF has been upfront that dialogue should be aiming at addressing the country’s economic problems.”
