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(NEWZIMBABWE) MDC-T exposed, in disarray: Mugabe

MDC-T exposed, in disarray: Mugabe
13/10/2012 00:00:00
by Staff Reporter

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe told supporters Friday that Zanu PF was assured of a “blatantly God-given victory” in elections next year, claiming the MDC-T was in disarray after being exposed as incompetent and corrupt.

Mugabe, who was addressing the Zanu PF central committee at the party’s Harare headquarters said: “They (MDC formations) have been exposed from top to bottom. God (is) giving Zanu PF an election victory on a silver platter.”

He said “gross shortcomings” which included corruption in local authorities and the failure to provide basic services had weakened the MDC-T which won the legislative ballot as well as the first round of the Presidential elections in 2008.

Mugabe insisted that elections would go ahead in March, dismissing claims by the MDC-T that conditions were not yet in place for a free and fair ballot.

“The MDC-T is saying let us level the ground. I do not know kuti kunodiwa matractors here to level the ground? You cannot get it better than this,” he said.

“If there is a fight in one place or the other that does not mar the general peace; what is important is that people must be able to vote without pressure.

“On our side we will ensure that there is no pressure exerted on the people. Asingade kuenda kuma elections, we do not force anybody.

“Some people think that they are important. That is nonsense. We will proceed. We are sailing on the road to elections in March. Vasingade, we do not force.”

Mugabe said the coalition government which was established following inconclusive elections in 2008 should have been replaced after 18 months.

“We have cheated on democracy. Democracy does not go that way,” he said.

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai agrees that the unity government is no longer workable but wants political reforms fully implemented before new elections can be held.

But Mugabe said he rivals did not want elections because they were enjoying the luxuries which come with being in government.

He however demanded an end to factions in Zanu PF saying divisions had cost the party dearly in the 2008 elections.

“Let us now look forward in unity and have discipline of a level much higher than 2008. A winning party needs discipline, needs order, focus and direction. Factions never build a strong party,” he said.

“Factions arise from selfishness and egotism that has no room in a party which is a people’s party. Let us move as one solid body and that way we will win as one. We won Chimurenga because we were united.”

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