Douglas Mwonzora said Nelson Chamisa will be disciplined if he fails to comply with the Supreme Court ruling. “The MDC is a party of r...
Douglas Mwonzora said Nelson Chamisa will be disciplined if
he fails to comply with the Supreme Court ruling.
“The MDC is a party of rules. We respect and advocate for
the rule of law and constitutionalism. We cannot accept lawlessness disguised
as politics. Gone are the days when people would break their own rules with
impunity. If we fail to obey court rulings while we are in the opposition, what
would happen if we are given state power?
“So, if people fail to comply with the ruling, they will be
taking a conscious risk and would be careless because the party will trigger
its rules.”
“The chairman (Morgen Komichi) made it clear that we will
comply with the ruling. Then we heard some people say they will not comply and
that’s rather sad because we insist it should be complied with,” he said,
adding Biti and Ncube were “wrong and dishonest”.
“They are wrong and dishonest. The MDC Alliance is not a
political party, but a group of seven parties, of which the principal party is
the MDC. In terms of the alliance agreement, anyone who is the MDC president
automatically becomes the leader of the alliance. Similarly, it means that once
that person has lost the presidency of the MDC, he/she would have automatically
lost the alliance leadership,” Mwonzora said.
“In the MDC alliance, the seven parties retained their
statuses as individual parties. So Mr Biti’s party is the PDP (People’s
Democratic Party) and Ncube’s party is MDC Green. We were therefore surprised
to hear PDP people trying to comment on MDC issues. So the judgement affects
one of the parties which is a member of the MDC Alliance.
The interpretation by of the (alliance) agreement by Biti
is thus an awkward attempt to gain cheap political mileage by lying to the
people. Biti and Ncube are very senior lawyers and they must be honest to
Chamisa and to Zimbabwe,” he told the Zimbabwe Independent.
Please listen carefully Mr Mwonzora explaining that the MDC Alliance was registered as a political party just before the last election. This was before he received money from Zanupf to sell out the people @nelsonchamisa @ProfJNMoyo @daddyhope @PedzisaiRuhanya @Mavhure pic.twitter.com/fLycJyPYPQ— Chalton Hwende (@hwendec) April 3, 2020
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