Chalton Hwende who is challenging Douglas Mwonzora for the MDC secretary general post says he does not owe him any favours. For the re...
Chalton Hwende who is challenging Douglas Mwonzora for the
MDC secretary general post says he does not owe him any favours.
For the record, Mwonzora did not step down from challenging
Chamisa for the post of party president. The truth of the matter is that
Mwonzora failed to get any nomination for the post of president while Chamisa
garnered 13 out of 13 nominations from the party’s provinces. Mwonzora did not
do Chamisa favour at all and nobody owes him a favour in return, he said.
Hwende said when he takes over from Mwonzora after the congress
he will reform the secretary-general’s office from being a centre of power to a
centre of administration.
“In terms of the MDC constitution, the secretary-general is
not the leader of the party. The leader of the party is the president of the
party. The secretary-general is a subordinate of the president. Unfortunately,
successive secretaries-general of the MDC have refused to acknowledge this
constitutional reality and it has caused major conflicts and divisions in the
party. Under my stewardship, the office of the secretary-general will not
compete with the office of the president because it is not only wrong but also
retrogressive. The secretary-general should complement and not compete with the
president of the party. Unbridled ambition and disloyalty have also been a
source of conflict in the party. The MDC splits in 2005 and 2014 were
spearheaded by sitting secretaries-general of the time. This will not happen
during my tenure.”
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