CONFUSION reigns over who an MDC faction loyal to Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara will back in the forthcoming elections, with some saying they will be back Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, while another group says they will be neutral.
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Morgan Changamire, the spokesperson for the faction, said they had made a strategic decision not to contest the elections and would reorganise after the polls.
“As far as we are concerned, we have made a strategic decision not to contest the elections because we want to expose the (Welshman) Ncube group that their numbers are still the same and never increased after the reports of those alleged defections,” he said.
“We are not backing any political party, we want our supporters to make their independent decisions and vote for their candidates of choice.”
Changamire said coalitions were an elaborate ruse to short-change the electorate by parties that did not have clear programmes to offer.
However, this is in stark contrast to statements by the faction’s organising secretary, Robson Mashiri, who said they had thrown their lot with Tsvangirai.
“If we did Welshman Ncube a favour by demanding the withdrawal of his (Mutambara) court case, why not extend the same favour to Tsvangirai?” he said on Wednesday.
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The MDC faction that broke off from the Ncube-led MDC claimed they were led by Mutambara, but they later “fired” the robotics professor, whom they accused of neglecting party business.
Mutambara described his firing as “nonsense”.
The former MDC leader did not submit his name for nomination for the Presidential elections, raising questions on whether he still had a future in politics.
Efforts to contact Mutambara were fruitless, as his mobile phone was off, while a person who answered his office phone said he was out of the country.
