By Rungano Dzikira

MDC-A president openly admitted that his party lacked rural support while addressing party supporters in Mutare’s Chisamba Stadium this Sunday.

Addressing a handful of party supporters, Chamisa said that the party was going to improve on its poor mobilisation strategies as they were set to adopt a new strategy which they believed would mollify the rural electorate.

“VaTsvangirai vakasiya vati party yakakurira kumusoro, inofanira kukurira kuzasi, nokudaro we are now going to emphasize on giving power to lower structures, kuma grassroots… ndosaka makanzwa tichiti tane a new thrust yekuti ma branches asimbe pa ground,” he said.

“Kuchiri kutanga, kudzidzira but hakuna munhu achaenda kunoita president we party asina kusarudzwa ne branch, kana kuita MP chero humwe hutungamiriri asina kubva kubranch, saka tiri kugadzira hurongwa hwedu,” explained the MDC president, naively giving in to being an amateur in politics.

This admission is contrary to falsehoods previously peddled by his party over ZEC’s rigging as MDC continued to dismally lose in most of the country’s rural constituencies and most of the recently held by-elections.

The hypocritical and excitable young leader went on to commend Douglas Mwonzora for bowing down after losing for the presidency post he was vying for, a situation which Chamisa himself failed to when he was supposed to relent power to Thokozani Khupe after Tsvangirai’s death, as the party awaited congress.

He also promised the gullible electorate hot air, promising that party representatives and member of parliament would now come from the newly formed structures, ‘vanogara imomo mamuri muvanhu.’

Sadly this is but one of the many strengths of the ruling party’s mobilisation strategies, a stance which the opposition now intends to copy.