Welshman Ncube Since taking over as leader of the MDC-M this month Ncube has moved fast to attempt to take complete hold of power available to the party, which is now being referred to as the MDC-N. Once elected, he soon announced that he was now a principal to the Global Political Agreement (GPA), and would thereby dislodge Mutambara.
Ncube then went on to declare that he was going to take over the position of DPM from Mutambara, whom he said had been offered the position of Minister of Regional and Integration Affairs. So far Mutambara has not publicily commented on these developments. However, this weekend in Addis Ababa Robert Mugabe publicly dashed Welshman Ncubes previous statement that he will become Deputy Prime Minister, by announcing that he can only do so if Arthur Mutambara resigns on his own accord.
On Monday political analyst Prof John Makumbe said: (An option) Welshman has is to dismiss Arthur Mutambara from the party. If he dismisses him or expels him from the party, Mutambara will not have any leg to stand on. He will have to step down as DPM and Mugabe will have to go to Ncube and ask that his party nominates a new DPM.
It can be done. The mood in the party now is that he could be dismissed because of the 25 followers the national chairman of the party has gone out of that party with 25 others and so Mutambara can easily be accused of leading a faction, Makumbe said. Ncubes MDC has rejected Mugabes statement saying each party, not the President, has the right to appoint representatives.
The MDCs claims contrasts sharply with constitutional law expert Lovemore Madhuku, who has always maintained that Mutambara can remain in office, unless he is fired by Mugabe. So far Mutambara has not stated what his next move is, but Mugabes apparent backing of Mutambara fuels ongoing speculation that ZANU PF is luring him to join ZANU PF. On Friday ZANU-PF secretary for information and publicity, Rugare Gumbo, said Mutambara would be welcome to join the party.
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