(NEWZIMBABWE) Tsvangirai-led MDC finished: Sikhala
06/11/2013 00:00:00
by Staff Reporter
THE MDC formation led by Morgan Tsvangirai - the party which has troubled president Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF for more than a decade - has crested and will now only go down, MDC99 leader Job Sikhala claimed Wednesday.
Speaking at a press conference in Harare where he announced his MDC99 was joining the newly formed NCA party, Sikhala said he was part of the team that founded the MDC knew how the organisation was run.
“Some of us know that thing; we are the founders of it and we know how it is run. We know that it has reached its end. So it is imperative that we take a different political route,” he said.
Sikhala said he had decided to join hands with the NCA because they shared the same ideology.
He also moved to emphasise his differences with the two MDC formations.
“In terms of ideology of course there are quite a number of things that we differ. I don’t want to talk about Morgan Tsvangirai and Welshman Ncube; those are my former colleagues that I worked with,” Sikhala said.
Sikhala accused the two MDCs of singing from the same hymn book adding that, during the term of the coalition government, they were in total agreement with Zanu PF, a party they “were fighting since 1999”.
“Unfortunately it came to haunt them at the recent elections,” he said.
The formers St Mary’s legislator said he would not attend the planned MDC founders’ convention.
“When they were in the inclusive government enjoying crumbs falling from king Nebuchadnezzar’s table they never thought about inviting us to a convention,” he said.
“They were having their convention with Mugabe and today because they are in trouble they want now a convention; for what purpose, and for what reason at all?
“They must go and have their convention with Mugabe (Arthur) Mutambara and (Welshman) Ncube.”
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(NEWZIMBABWE) Sikhala winds down MDC99, joins Madhuku
06/11/2013 00:00:00
by Staff Reporter
FIERY former St Mary’s legislator and MDC99 leader Job Sikhala has dissolved his party and the joined new NCA political outfit led by university law lecturer, Lovemore Madhuku.
Sikhala told journalists at a press briefing Wednesday that he had been working with Madhuku since the constitutional referendum early this year.
“We have agreed that the MDC 99 merges with the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) to come out with one political movement that will contest power against the current political set up in our country,” he said.
“We realised our relationship is fruitful during the referendum when we advocated for the rejection of the then new draft constitution. As the MDC 99 we have decided to join hands with Professor Madhuku and we are now in the process of integrating our structures.
Asked what position he would be assuming in the NCA, Sikhala was however, evasive.
“We are sharing executive powers until the congress next year. The issue of positions will be resolved then.
“The entire MDC 99 executive and the National Taskforce of the NCA will be running the affairs of the party in the meantime. We are married by the same idea that gave us 179,000 votes at the referendum and we want to grow that number,” Sikhala said.
He said the NCA will be a social democratic party with Pan-Africanist leanings.
Of Madhuku, Sikhala said: “He is a sound man very nice to work with and we have had no any differences.
“Since we started working together during the period of the referendum up to present if there is any power hunger in him we will see as we move forward but at the present moment l haven’t yet noticed it.”
The NCA, which campaigned for a new constitution over the last 16 years, opposed the new charter adopted by the last coalition government, has since been transformed into a political party.
Sikhala, who served as secretary for defence and intelligence in the united MDC then led by Morgan Tsvangirai left the party along with then secretary general Welshman Ncube in the infamous October 2005 split.
He however did not stay long leaving to establish his own political outfit MDC 99.
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