DRAMA continues to rock opposition the Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) with party executives seeking to bar “suspended” leader Agrippa Mutambara from using the party name.
By Everson Mushava
Party chairman Claudius Makova and secretary-general Kudakwashe Bhasikiti have already made an urgent High Court chamber application seeking an order to bar Mutambara from using the party’s name and regalia.
This came shortly after Mutambara issued a statement claiming to have fired the duo.
“This is an application for an order that the respondent be refrained from posing as the applicant’s president, using the applicant’s name, making material and any other belongings of the applicant and organising any gathering in the name of the applicant,” read part of Makova’s affidavit.
He claimed that Mutambara had been informed through a letter from Bhasikiti on October 26 but had continued to masquerade as party leader.
“Applicant has due to the respondent’s behaviour suffered loss in that its members as a political party have been confused as to the leadership of the party. As a result, the applicant is continuously losing its supporters and will continue to do so if respondent is not refrained from his dealings using applicant’s name and materials such as party regalia,” Makova wrote.
Makova and Bhasikiti are represented by Nyawo Ruzive Legal Practitioners, who submitted that the case should be treated as an urgent matter to stop the anarchy and lawlessness rocking the party.
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Mutambara was given 10 days to file a notice of opposition to the declaration order, failing which the matter will be sat down without further notice as an unopposed application.
