By Favour Matenga
A few days before 31 December last year the self-exiled former Cabinet Minister and ZANU PF Politburo member, Prof Jonathan Moyo announced through his Twitter handle that he would post a 24-point thread which would share his 2020 vision statement about himself, ZANU PF, party politics, (and) the 2018 presidential poll.
Despite the disproportionate hype the post, like the video and book entitled “Excelgate” failed to live up to its billing, leaving the hapless political science professor very frustrated.
“Most Zimbabweans don't care for facts. To them and we see it daily in these streets, facts are what they manufacture in their heads, hearts, dreams, nightmares, fears, likes, dislikes and hallucinations. No wonder, public discourse in Zimbabwe is not fact based or fact driven!” posted an evidently frustrated Prof Moyo.
Moyo’s frustration is born of the fact that his attempts to soil President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s, 30 July 2018, poll victory using a video and a book in which he attempted in vain to claim that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) allegedly used an excel spread sheet to manipulate presidential elections in the President’s favour fell flat on its face.
Realising that one of the reasons why Zimbabweans including the MDC have largely ignored his attacks on the President from his political wilderness base in Kenya is the fact that he is criticising a political party of which he was a key member due to bitterness, Prof Moyo used the thread to shamelessly claim that by the time he left Zimbabwe he was no longer interested in ZANU PF.
“I was done with ZANU PF when I gave my Blue Ocean video to the Politburo in July 2017. I knew then that a military coup was loading and that (former) President (Robert) Mugabe would not be able to stop it. But I did not know the coup would target me as enemy number one,” he said.
It should be noted that Prof Moyo’s efforts to present various slides and videos to impress former President, the late Robert Mugabe and sway him to his G40 faction also foundered monumentally.
Scrapping the barrel of desperation, Prof Moyo also sought to sow alarm and despondency among Zimbabweans by claiming that the country is in a free fall.
“So Zimbabwe is in a triple crisis: (i) (President) Mnangagwa has no legitimacy and authority to unite and inspire the nation; (ii) worse, he has lost the confidence of the armed forces; and (iii) his government is incapable of reviving the economy, which is now in an irretrievable free fall!,” he tweeted.
This however does not tally with the situation on the ground where Government is doing all it can including subsiding basic commodities and services for the benefit of the people as it moves to correct the wrongs of Mugabe’s successive governments.
Like other anti-Zimbabwe forces such as Western-sponsored opposition parties in the mould of the MDC, opposition individuals like the self-exiled former Cabinet Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere and others, ended up threatening Zimbabwe’s peace by hinting at destabilising the country.
“A new patriotic front beckons. The old must give way to the young and the will of the people stolen in 2018 must be restored otherwise No Happy New Year!”
Although the MDC has spurned Prof Moyo’s overtures, his threats to the country’s peace come at the same time that the opposition party’s leader, Nelson Chamisa has issued threats of turning up the heat on a constitutionally-elected President to seize power illegally. It indicates that they are both cut from the same power-hungry cloth. Since November last year, Kasukuwere has been issuing similar threats ominously dubbed “Tatamba zvakwana (Enough is enough)” under his shadowy #TysonWabantu movement.
