Chamisa Blasts “Sell Outs” Within The CCC

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Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has launched an indirect jab at unnamed party cadres, branding them “sell-outs”, as he battles one of his toughest challenges since the birth of the main opposition party two years ago.

In an X post captioned, “SELLING OUT IS A BOOMING INDUSTRY…especially under a dictatorship”, Chamisa came close to revealing some of his deep-seated frustrations about his colleagues that he felt have “betrayed” his efforts to maintain a strong battlefront against Zanu PF rule.

“One thing surprises me; at any given moment in time, there is never a shortage of individuals who are readily available or willingly accessible, to sell their soul to the oppressor, thereby assisting the oppressor to achieve their own power retention motives and wicked ends. And it is always about the thirty pieces of silver,” Chamisa said without mentioning names.

The CCC, constituted in 2022 on the back of bruising leadership wrangle within the former MDC Alliance, has been rocked by recalls ordered by self-imposed interim party Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu.

A virtually unknown quantity within Zimbabwean politics until he launched his bombshell recalls October last year, Tshabangu has diligently presided over the ouster of dozens of  legislators and councillors under his ostensible bid to “restore constitutionalism within the party.”

Tshabangu argues that some of the targeted lawmakers were imposed by Chamisa when the party sought candidates for last year’s disputed August 2023 elections.

The popular Chamisa and his CCC faction on the other hand, argue that Tshabangu was a hired assassin whose mission was to decimate the opposition’s representation in parliament and local authorities and further cause disharmony within a party which remains the biggest poll threat to Zanu PF.

Despite a slew of court challenges thrown at him by some of the country’s top lawyers hired by the party, Tshabangu continues to “win” his cases nonetheless in the courts.

CCC argues the political minnow’s dogged efforts were being aided financially and intellectually by some top party politicians who felt aggrieved by Chamisa’s leadership style.

No one yet has been publicly fingered as the invisible hand behind Tshabangu’s actions.

Source Zimlive