By Political Reporter
Two senior MDC Alliance and former legislators yesterday dumped the Chamisa-led political outfit and joined ZANU PF, while accusing the former of being embroiled in retrogressive politics of vengeance.
The two, former MDC Alliance Treasurer and former senator Lillian Timveous and former Kwekwe legislator Blessing Chebundo, were welcomed to the ruling party by President Mnangagwa at State House yesterday.
Timveous has already written a resignation letter to Chamisa informing him about her decision to join the ruling party.
“By way of this note, I would like to inform the MDC-A Party President, Nelson Chamisa and the entire MDC-A family that I am not backtracking on my decision to quit the MDC-A, instead, I have decided to join the ruling Zanu PF Party.
“After careful consideration and retrospection, particularly on how the MDC party has been conducting its business, I have sadly come to the conclusion that nothing constructive with regards to Democracy, Good Governance and the well-being of Zimbabweans in general would ever come out of the MDC- A,” said Timveous in her resignation letter.
Timveous told Chamisa that the MDC Alliance was a chaotic party and should stop criticising the ruling party and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).
“The party (MDC A) has been at the forefront of criticizing ZANU P) and ZEC for allegedly failing to conduct credible elections, yet MDC internal elections have always been marred with a lot of irregularities. Vote rigging and buying as well as the imposition of candidates have become synonymous with MDC internal elections. The chaotic MDC-A and MDC-T elective Congresses quickly come to mind,” added Timveous.
Timveous told Chamisa that the MDC Alliance’s retrogressive confrontational approach and violent tendencies have led to the unnecessary destruction of property, injury to innocent civilians and destabilization of the economy.
She told Chamisa that the MDC Alliance was only good at criticising ZANU PF) Government, particularly on social media without coming up with tangible or practical solutions to the country's challenges.
Timveous said she had decided to join ZANU PF because it had people’s interests at heart.
“I have decided to join the ruling Zanu PF Party because of the party's impeccable track record. The party has the interests of the people at heart as evidenced by community driven projects it has been implementing over the years. Furthermore, the party has over the years been successfully holding its internal elections and the party has always been open to dialogue whenever the country's peace and stability is threatened.
“I am also happy to announce that the Zanu PF President Cde E.D Mnangagwa has welcomed me into the Zanu PF family without any conditions to which I am very grateful,” said Timveous.
Chebundo said he decided to join ZANU PF because of his desire to contribute to the development of the country.
“Basically this has to do with putting the nation first. I want to stress that this is a personal decision that I have taken. I have travelled long within a political arena and I need to contribute to the development of the country using the experience I have acquired.
“The only way for me to do that is to join the ruling party which has the policies that drive the country,” said Chebundo.
In November last year, another MDC Alliance senior official, Tongai Mathuthu also dumped the opposition party and joined ZANU PF claiming that more opposition officials were set to jump ship and join the ruling party.
