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War Veterans Minister Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa has advised main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa to join the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) if he wants to dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Addressing journalists at a War Veterans press conference in Harare on Thursday, a furious Mutsvangwa castigated Chamisa for refusing to join POLAD and mocked the idea of forming a Government of National Unity (GNU), between the ruling Zanu Pf and Chamisa’s CCC, insisting that President Mnangagwa will not accept an inclusive government with “a failure.”
“The result is that President Emmerson Mnangagwa won, and we are looking through the windshield going forward, we are not looking through the rear mirror because we are worried about these things about national dialogue with Chamisa. He can go and join POLAD because it is the choice of a winner that we must have dialogue.
“The Constitution does not say that if you win you should have dialogue, no it says if you win you must rule that what the Constitution says, so we are very happy that the president is ruling now because he won,” he said.
Mutsvangwa also blasted the West for allegedly trying to unseat the government using a “puppet” leader in Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema.
“We want to remind Washington, London, and Brussels that SADC is a creation of the Southern African national liberation movements. lt’s a product of the frontline states who were at the forefront of the struggle against apartheid, against minority, against settler rule and against racist imperial control from the Berlin Conference of 1884 in Europe.
“These are the people and organizations who created SADC and it is ours. They must keep their dirty hands away from our SADC. They cannot try to steal our organization and try to turn it against us. It is our organization.
“They cannot use individual puppets to try to become leaders of the sovereign elected presidents of the constitutional republics, which are SADC,” Mutsvangwa said.
However, CCC deputy spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba recently told the party supporters in Harare that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s leadership does not reflect the will of the people.
He said, “The reason why there must be a political settlement in Zimbabwe is because since 1980 Zimbabwe has been gripped by vicious cycles of disputed elections. Elections have left Zimbabwean society more divided than united, because they are not being conducted in a manner prescribed for by the law of the country.
“Dialogue has to be a process that takes Zimbabwe back to the road to legitimacy. We must dialogue and converse to agree on a road map to go back into a fresh election because this current class of 2023 has no mandate of the people, has no mandate of the ordinary people.”
