HAVING been leader of a political party in Zimbabwe since 1999, I thought you had learnt the dangerous pitfalls of opposition politics. I was disturbed to hear you tear into People’s Democratic Party leader Tendai Biti and Zimbabwe People First interim leader Joice Mujuru.
BY PARDON MAGUTA,OUR READER
While it is your democratic right to air your opinion and views to your supporters, it is important to avoid the mistakes of 2008. Arrogance does not take us anywhere. Focus on the man who has the ball and in this case Zanu PF.
Your mindless bayoneting of the two and answers proved that you are still staying in your political dreamland of easily dislodging President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF in spite of your past failures even when the environment was clearly favourable to you.
Most accuse you of doing exactly what Mugabe is doing in Zanu PF: hounding out potential successors and clinging to power by force and subversion of party democractic processes.
The two shots you fired at Mujuru were unexpected as you had earlier expressed willingness to work with her in the future.
What you must remember is that there is nothing called the biggest opposition in Zimbabwe. The problem is you brag of holding the gong of being the biggest opposition party forgetting that political parties are formed to assume State power and not glorify being in the main opposition party while the people continue to suffer. You have an opportunity in the coming election as opposition parties if you somehow come out with a workable plan to unseat Zanu PF in the first round of the 2018 polls, do not even talk of a run-off.
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It is high time you changed your political attitude towards other opposition political parties and their leaders because they also have a stake in this. No one has the sole political birthright to contest Mugabe and his party.
Stop accusing others of being sellouts and failures.
Tsvangirai, this is time to mend broken political bridges and build others.
