THE main opposition MDC-T yesterday said the ongoing internal strife in Zanu PF was likely to continue until 2018 and would leave the ruling party paralysed, making it easy for the opposition to assume power without much challenge.
BY MOSES MATENGA
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu made the remarks while responding to recent claims by Zanu PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere that opposition parties were doomed and Zimbabwe was poised to become a territory for the ruling party following its victory in last week’s 16 by-elections.
“What these people fail to appreciate is the fact that Zanu PF is structurally deformed and that it is in terminal decline,” Gutu said.
He added: “One doesn’t have to be a political analyst from outer space to appreciate the glaring fact that the Zanu PF dictatorship is crumbling and also that come the year 2018, Zanu PF as a political formation would have mutated into several mutually exclusive and antagonistic factions.
“On the other hand, the MDC-T is on the ascendancy and the little offshoots from the main party are inevitably dying off as was expected to happen in the first place. The long and short of it is that electoral reforms will not be given to us on a silver platter; we know that.”
He said the opposition parties were quite aware that the electoral reforms they were demanding would not come easily.
“The only way in which Zanu PF can win an election is by direct and indirect intimidation of voters, manipulation of the voters’ roll and downright stuffing of ballot boxes. Put differently, there is a snow ball’s chance in hell of Zanu PF winning a free and fair election anywhere in Zimbabwe.”
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Zanu PF is currently embroiled in a fight to succeed President Robert Mugabe.
