Staff Reporter

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa’s dictatorial tendencies continue to show their ugly head as that party grapples to conclude its candidate nomination process.

There has been an outcry on the requirements demanded by that party before one can represent it at the upcoming Harmonized General Elections. Chamisa is accused of moving to offload most of the incumbent parliamentarians and councillors who have been bickering negative narratives about him.

Political commentator, Absolom Machachi reviewed CCC’s questionnaire designed to vet aspiring candidates as nothing less than a move to annihilate and side step sitting Members of Parliament and Councillors.

“Chamisa is certainly moving to elbow adversaries from his party by setting up frivolous conditions he knows they will not meet. For him to ask for previous convictions when a majority of his members have been arrested and convicted on numerous accounts for the democratic movement is ill conceived. One does not have to look far, we have Job Sikhala wallowing in prison; automatically he does not qualify” said Machachi

Machachi made reference to another crippling requirement which made life uneasy for the sitting candidates. The questionnaire requested the MPs and councillors to list their achievements during their tenure. Machachi posited that “service delivery has been dire as evidenced by heaps of litter, unclean water and the pothole riddled roads. The writing is on the wall, Chamisa is showing the old guard the exit door. That is very clear.”

The requirements went on to demand from the aspiring candidates’ rates clearance from the Harare City Council as evidence that they do not owe the authority any amount. This comes on the backdrop that most of the councillors are in arrears, a situation that has not been made any easier by another condition that the candidates must never have been implicated in corruption sagas. Chamisa is on record of firing Chitungwiza Mayor and councillors for corruption and his machination to weed out the old guard is now playing out in the open.

Lately, the opposition leader had been accused of siding with the youth particularly CCC Spokesperson, Fadzai Mahere and her deputy, Gift Ostallos Siziba, ahead of the senior and founding members of the Movement for Democratic Change.