Staff Reporter
United Kingdom based MDC-Alliance activist Pedzisai Ruhanya says opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is surrounded by idiots, useless empty wannabes, accusing the party’s Secretary General Chalton Hwende of deploying ghost accounts to silence him, as rifts in the troubled opposition party continue to widen.
Ruhanya, yesterday on his Twitter handle, accused some MDC-Alliance leaders of fighting and calling for the expulsion of the party’s Youths Secretary General, Ostalos Siziba whom he described as a rare breed.
“A whole group of useless senior MDC-Alliance leaders sit down to discuss rubbish and destabilisation nonsense and feel threatened by this young man (Siziba) to the extent that they demand he be expelled. I am sorry Nelson Chamisa you are surrounded by huge idiots, useless empty wannabes.
“Dear Chalton Hwende, you can deploy as many idiots and ghost accounts as you want but rest assured you have no capacity to silence me,” tweeted Ruhanya.
Ruhanya also claimed that there are some MDC-Alliance leaders who, on a daily basis, fight their colleagues internally without retreat or contrition, even at a time when most opposition supporters want to pull together.
Responding to Ruhanya’s allegations, MDC-Alliance Youth Assembly Chair Tererai Obey Sithole accused him of meddling in the opposition party politics yet he is not even in the party structures.
“The last time I checked Pedzisai Ruhanya wasn’t a member of any MDC-Alliance’s organs. Wondering why he appears to be much informed about issues in the party more than those in the party. It’s totally wrong to undermine existing party organs and cause chaos for selfish intends,” responded Sithole.
Sources in the opposition party revealed to this publication that Ruhanya’s bitterness is emanating from Hwende having stopped some corrupt Harare and Bulawayo councillors from giving him residential stands. Ruhanya allegedly supports and markets the MDC-Alliance in exchange of stands.
Ruhanya was also allegedly paid to push MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora out of the MDC-Alliance and is now busy pushing for the ouster of Hwende and MDC-Alliance Vice president Welshman Ncube.
Meanwhile some party supporters have criticised the infighting within the MDC-Alliance on social media, citing that it will negatively impact on its current 2023 recruitment drive.
“Imagine we are fighting hard to lure first time voters and they see this. They will quickly loose interest. Behave like elders and sort your issues amicably. Internal politics will always be there and should always remain internal, tinoendepi tichidai,” tweeted one Tafman.
“The timing is so off. After such, how do you then convince people to register and vote, when you appear like musina kurongeka,” questioned one Magumbo.
MDC-Alliance through its Elections Directorate launched a voter registration campaign whose ultimate objective is to register and garner 6 million votes for the opposition party in the 2023 general election. If the current infighting continues, the objective will definitely not be achieved and the party will likely lose more members.
The current infights come hardly a month after Hwende refuted claims by some daily papers that there was chaos and infighting within the opposition party. Hwende argued that they were falsehoods spread by the ruling Zanu-PF, meant to cause divisions within the opposition party.
