by Daphine Zulu
As the MDC-A party faces implosion due to the incessant cockpit fights, power wrangle, ideological bankruptcy and donor fatigue, the writing is on the wall, extinction is inevitable!
The unabated truth is - Chamisa is racing against the wind, trying to prove and appeal to the electorate of his worthy, instead of nobly mopping up what’s left of his ‘alliance’ and political fantasy before it’s too late.
Sadly desperation has kicked in to an extent of him sponsoring the narrative that other opposition political parties in the country were being sponsored to malign his party and rally behind Zanu PF, in the ruling party’s quest to create a one party state.
In this despairing attempt to appeal to the electorate, Chamisa’s lieutenants have recently rocked social media claiming that other opposition political party leaders had been bribed with US$2 500 by Zanu PF to attend the Victoria Falls COVID-19 inoculation event and receive the Chinese Sinovac jab.
But at whose health’s expense really? Who would honestly take up a risk for a paltry US$2 500 and put their lives at risk if it isn’t because they also believe in the drug’ efficacy?
Much to the oppositions’ chagrin and criticism, an unperturbed Government has forged ahead in coming up with an inoculation stratagem to assuage the raging COVID-19 storm in the country. It chatted its own path by successfully negotiating a shrewd vaccine deal with their Chinese counterparts resulting in the Chinese Sinopharm and Sinovac drug, which is ‘unfortunately’ proving effective worldwide, much to MDC-A’s disappointment. Having baselessly badmouthed the Chinese drugs without medical or scientific backing in the first place, the party is thus felt with egg on the face and are now reluctant to come out acknowledging their mistake and publicly take up the vaccine, kwatongova kukuvarira mukati sesokisi. Interestingly, though the likes of Job Sikhala are defying the party position and getting the much needed inoculation, further embarrassing their naïve leader.
Shamelessly, the MDC-A somehow hoped for a special invite to attend the national programme which every other political party leader in the country had likewise been invited to.
Hoping for a seat in the front role, the youthful leader had reluctantly turned down the public invite, hoping that others would follow suit. Much to everyone’s amusement, Douglas Mwonzora, (MDC-T)’s party leader seem to have stolen the lime light instead, hence rendering the MDC-A non-attendance of the event irrelevant.
Just like how the naïve young man had expected preferential treatment during POLAD negotiations, again the dream remained a mirage, as all seem to be gathering momentum without his ‘input’.
Honestly what else surpasses this level of irrelevance? The political chancer needs to take a hint now more than ever. Zimbabwe’s political landscape has undergone major shift since the inception of the Second Republic, it’s no longer politics of exclusion of the opposition and Chamisa has not learnt that vital lesson, but life will always go on, with or without him!
Over the months, the MDC-A has had nothing to offer, save for Fadzayi Mahere’s unending press statements to back up the comic orator – Chamisa whose rallies and news conferences are always accompanied by much laughter, and nothing worthy really.
Having lost ownership of the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, former Harvest House, the party no longer has a proper physical structure to call their own. Again, Chamisa’s party lost access to funding under the political parties financing due to its naivety of the laws of the land. At the same time, POLAD totally wrote him off, and recent defections likewise are rendering the party even more useless.
History will judge Chamisa harshly as a failed politician, who failed to reinvent himself after the late Tsvangirai got him through the back door. Currently, the MDC-A is in absolute chaos of its own making. Chamisa and crew lack political maturity, leadership skills, courage, abilities, and capabilities hence there is no opposition to talk about at all. The MDC-A ship is inevitably sinking with the little left on board blissful ignorant, of their doomed fate.
Hopefully the young man manages to mop up what is left of the parry in order to maintain relevance or even make it to 2023 as an opposing power in Zimbabwean politics. Because, more than ever, the party need self-introspection and a paradigm shift in the ways in which it conducts business, if at all it seeks to remain relevant in the Zimbabwean political arena.
MDC-A needs stop burying their heads in the sand and expected their problems to miraculously disappear. They need to locate the genesis of their problems, which seem to stem from non-other than their useless leader, Nelson Chamisa. That way, it could be the starting point back to relevance.
Out of this political adventurism, the electorate should surely realise that everything being done by MDC-A has nothing to do with democracy, as the party would want them to believe. Instead we have a confused lot hoping to lead the crowd to nowhere. Where is Biti or Professor Welshman Ncube amid this political circus, one wonders. Someone should save the MDC-A before it is too late!
Or many are bound to believe Obert Gutu’s assessment that MDC died with Tsvangirai.
