Chihuri reportedly met President Robert Mugabe at State House in Harare early this week and told him that he cannot directly work under any MDC minister.
The President was told that by Chihuri that he will step down if he handed over the home Affairs ministry. revealed a source who attended the meeting.
Meanwhile ZANU PF ‘s chief negotiator Patrick Chinamasa has downplayed the deadlock over allocation of four key ministries telling state media that progress has been made.
I don’t think that the issue of allocation of ministries is a matter that can be referred to the facilitator . We cannot, at the slightest difference in opinion, call outsiders to mediate. Even if you are a married couple, you cannot have a situation where your wife runs to her mother each time you have a problem in your home. If there is thinking on such a kind of approach, it has to stop in the interest of harmonisation of relations, he told The Herald.
Chinamasa went on to claim that the Deputy Prime Minister designate Thokozani Khuphe has already toured her new office to be located in downtown Harare.
I understand offices for Mr Tsvangirai and the two Deputy Prime Ministers have already been set aside at Munhumutapa Building and that MDC-T vice president Thokozani Khupe has already been to the building to see the offices, said Chinamasa.
Earlier MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa told The Star newpaper that they has been no progress in the stalemate.
This approach of claiming the marrow of the government while peripherising the MDC is completely unacceptable. The mistake that Zanu-PF is making is to imagine that we are desperate to be in the government. We are not in a hurry to be chauffeur-driven. We are a people-driven party., he said. – zimbabwemetro.com