ZANU PF supporters and MPs on Monday snubbed Copac campaign meetings to canvass for a YES vote for the draft constitution in Redcliff and Mbizo in Kwekwe ahead of the March 16 referendum.
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But Mkoba MDC-T MP Amos Chibaya, who addressed the meeting with the help of Mbizo MP Settlement Chikwinya and Redcliff Zanu PF MP Isheunesu Muza, dismissed the snub by Zanu PF supporters as he was representing Copac at the meetings.
He also defended Mberengwa West MP and Zanu PF chief whip Joram Gumbo, who was supposed to be part of the team, but failed to pitch up for the gatherings, saying: “There was no snub, Gumbo could not come here because he had some commitments, but he will be with me in Mberengwa on Tuesday. We come here not as political parties, but as Copac so don’t read much into this.”
Only a handful of known MDC-T supporters, most of them members of the party’s Kwekwe structures, attended the meetings which were advertised in the media since Sunday.
Zanu PF supporters who spoke to NewsDay said they had not been cleared by their superiors to attend the Copac gatherings to campaign for the “YES VOTE”.
“We did not go to the meetings because there was no word from our party structures clearing us to attend the meetings, as far as we are concerned this was an MDC-T thing,” a Zanu PF member said.
Copac distributed T-Shirts and caps at the two meetings campaigning for the “YES VOTE” on the basis that the two major political parties, MDC-T and Zanu PF, had “okayed” the draft.
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“There was a struggle in the making of this constitution which saw our principals at the end compromising on the way forward and this is the document which we have. It is, therefore, impossible for you to be entirely happy with the whole document, but it can take us forward,” Chibaya told the gathering.
