Political Reporter

Opposition Transform Zimbabwe leader, Jacob Ngarivhume, has reiterated that his party is a stand-alone organisation with no links to the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance.

Writing on his Twitter handle recently, Ngarivhume said Transform Zimbabwe was a political organisation with no political brotherhood to the MDC Alliance.

“Some people are wondering if Transform Zimbabwe is still part of the MDC Alliance. It is not. Transform Zimbabwe is a stand-alone organisation,” said Ngarivhume.

It’s not the first time that Ngarivhume announced his divorce with the MDC Alliance as in May 2019 he said Transform Zimbabwe had rejected suggestions by Chamisa to dissolve and be part of the grand MDC Alliance. Ngarivhume further said that his party would rather pursue its founding vision of being a political alternative in the country than be swallowed by the MDC Alliance.

Since 2019, Ngarivhume was in a drive to grow his party membership base and increase his chances come 2023 elections.

Recently, there was a subtle fight for limelight between Chamisa and Ngarivhume with the former initiating clean up campaigns in various Harare suburbs whose garbage had not been collected by the MDC Alliance-led Harare City Council.

In a move described by political analysts as a counter to Ngarivhume’s clean up campaigns, Chamisa started his own clean up campaigns code named “Tsvaira Zimbabwe” to allegedly salvage political limelight from Ngarivhume.

There had been growing insinuations purporting that some MDC Alliance leadership are plotting to dethrone Chamisa and replace him with Ngarivhume whom they say is mature and action oriented than Chamisa.

Chamisa, who was defeated by President Mnangagwa in the 2018 presidential elections, was being accused of doing little to consolidate his support base and some of his supporters and sympathizers are now opting for Ngarivhume to be the MDC Alliance’s presidential candidate during 2023 elections.