MDC Youth League leader Happymore Chidziva is facing resistance in Highfield West where he wants to be the MP. Some say Chidziva has n...
MDC Youth League leader Happymore Chidziva is facing
resistance in Highfield West where he wants to be the MP.
Some say Chidziva has no links to the constituency as he is
from from Kwekwe.
“We know they are propping up Chidziva who is popularly
known as Bvondo to stand as a candidate for Highfield West unopposed but that
is not fair. He is actually from Kwekwe and he cannot be imposed on the people
of Harare,” said the source.
The MDC is reported to have reserved the Highfield West
seat for the youths, to the exclusion of senior party members and former
legislators for the constituency.
Violence also rocked the MDC-T consensus meeting in Glen
View and Chitungwiza.
Some sitting and aspiring candidates had to flee for their lives as youths bayed for their blood
in chaos riddled meetings. The party has directed party candidates to hold
consensus meetings to avoid holding primary elections, a strategy that has been
perceived by some as a ploy to impose preferred candidates.
In Glen View North, sitting Legislator Mr Fani Munengami
fled the scene while Mrs Vimbai Tsvangirai Java had to be escorted as party
supporters protested why she was coming to contest in Glen View South
constituency.
Party supporters rapped Mr Chamisa for trying to impose
Vimbai, the daughter of founding MDC-T president Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, who
succumbed to colon cancer in February this year.
In Zengeza West, a tension-filled consensus meeting was
aborted after just 10 minutes after sitting MP Mr Simon Chidhakwa failed to
agree with aspiring candidates Messrs Job Sikhala and Rangarirayi Mutingwende.
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