The Sunday News
Lungile Tshuma Sunday News Correspondent
ZANU-PF yesterday said MDC-T’s refusal to take part in the forthcoming by-elections despite being given a voter’s roll which they have long been crying for by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), was because the party was scared of performing dismally.
The revolutionary party’s spokesperson, Cde Simon Khaya Moyo, said the Western-sponsored MDC-T usually chickened out whenever the “political kitchen gets hot”.
After President Mugabe announced that there would be two by-elections on 27 March, in Mount Darwin West and Chirumanzu-Zibagwe constituencies, the MDC-T indicated that it would boycott these by-elections as they had not been given a voter’s roll.
“The MDC-T has finally come out in its true colours of deceit regarding the voter’s roll. First, we were told the MDC-T will not participate in any by-election without being supplied with the voter’s roll by ZEC,” said Cde Moyo.
“ZEC has now supplied them with the voter’s roll for the two coming by-elections in Mt Darwin West and Chirumanzu-Zibagwe. They confirmed public receipt of the voter’s roll. Now, scared of dismally losing the forthcoming by-elections, the MDC-T leopard is now without shame trying to change its spots. They now scream that the release did not mean the party will participate in the by-elections. What exactly did they want ZEC to do?
“By-elections are on and certainly for a party like the MDC-T with no message to the people and their Juice being dry, it’s pointless to take part in the exercise.”
Cde Auxillia Mnangagwa is representing Zanu-PF in Chirumanzu-Zibagwe constituency after the seat fell vacant following the elevation of Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa to the post of Vice-President and Cde Barnwell Seremwe will be representing the party in Mount Darwin West constituency in a belated by-election, which should have been held when Dr Joice Mujuru was appointed Vice-President soon after the 2013 elections.
