Political Reporter

Fierce Government critic and opposition activist, Hopewell Chin’ono has said that Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) cannot be an alternative political party to the ruling ZANU PF because it lacks political strategy.

Commenting on a clip where President Mnangagwa was addressing multitudes of ZANU PF supporters in Mutasa South recently, Chin’ono said that what the President said was true, that CCC had no alternative policies. “I don’t agree with a lot of things about Mnangagwa’s Government but here he said something important. It is not wise for the opposition to simply say he is a bad leader running a corrupt regime. The opposition must say how it will resuscitate central hospitals, schools etc,” said Chin’ono.

Chin’ono’s comments came at the time when there are reports that he was a key member of the newly launched ‘Third Way’ which seeks to contest the next plebiscite.

Again, Chin’ono is not the only one to cast doubts on CCC’s capacity to wrestle power from ZANU PF. Front for Economic Emancipation in Zimbabwe (FEEZ) leader, Godfrey Tsenengamu, recently described Nelson Chamisa as a weak and ineffective leader with no capacity to take over State power.

“We believe in confronting the problem whatever it is and we are so much convinced that under the leadership of Advocate Nelson Chamisa if we were to work with him under the CCC, we were not going to achieve what we intended to achieve. Yes, we admit they are a very strong movement, Chamisa is very likeable, very popular and a good public speaker, but we think that he is weak somehow, he is ineffective.

“The situation that Zimbabwe finds itself in, does not require a leadership that thinks ZANU PF is going to be removed through prayers and tweeting,” said Tsenengamu.

Meanwhile, Chamisa’s former sympathisers, the likes of Dr Ibbo Mandaza, Dr Pedzisayi Ruhanya and Chin’ono now have changed political opinions as they accuse him of being a dictator leading a structureless party.