MDC Alliance spokesperson Welshman Ncube has blamed MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa for the Nomination Court chaos. “I suppose we were busy...
MDC Alliance spokesperson Welshman Ncube has blamed MDC
leader, Nelson Chamisa for the Nomination Court chaos.
“I suppose we were busy grabbing seats from each other and
forgot that the real enemy is Zanu PF. As far as I know, Insiza North was
allocated to the MDC-T and I have not been briefed as to why they failed to
field a candidate. These are self-inflicted wounds,” Ncube, who doubles as MDC
leader.
“We had candidates in these areas including wards, but they
were told they could not contest. The people who were authorising our
candidates decided in their wisdom or lack thereof to instead sign for aspiring
candidates from the MDC-T who unfortunately were not registered in those wards
and they were disqualified on that basis, so we lost.”
Ncube told Newsday that the alliance’s leadership initially
agreed to create a framework to deal with candidate authorisation, but this was
upstaged by the MDC-T.
“As principals, we had agreed that we would create an
inclusive platform in which all partners were represented to authorise
candidates, but our colleagues in the MDC-T decided to create an exclusive
framework. It basically meant that any other candidate that the MDC-T guys did
not like would not have their papers signed, but instead aspiring candidates
from their party would be allowed.
“This resulted in sitting councillors in the Matabeleland
provinces held by our party (MDC) failing to file their nomination papers. As
things stand most alliance partners are not contesting in local council
countrywide except the MDC-T. Our proportional representation sitting MP
Nomalanga Khumalo was also denied the right to file her papers after the MDC-T
people refused to sign for her,” Ncube charged.
Ncube also said: “We are in the alliance because the
majority of the people want us to unite. It is the only way we can give our
people a chance. I have spoken to other partners and they remain committed.
But, we will have to speak to each other honestly and openly about what should
not have happened and hope we will continue as a unit after that. The good part
is nothing happened that we did not expect.”
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