Clifford Kamuti (District Youth Chairman), Nanire Kandigomba (District Secretary for Security and Peter Chari (District Chairman) are said to have left the party after refusing to call a meeting at Dendera Business Centre on 30th March 2013.
According to SW Radio Africa’s Bulawayo correspondent Lionel Saungweme, the officials were openly heard discussing their resignation. Saungweme spoke to sources who quoted the officials as saying that “there is no future within their party.”
Alexio Masende, a Provincial Youth Chairperson is understood to have threatened to quit too, in protest over the imposition of Christopher Musa as Parliamentary Candidate for Mudzi North. Saungweme explained that there are allegations that Musa, who served as MP for three terms before current MP Newton Kachepa, was “imposed because he allegedly has lots of money to manipulate party structures.”
Saungweme said that Kamuti, Kandigomba and Chari are alleged to be aligned to MP Kachepa who has been denied the right to contest as MP by Mashonaland East Governor, Ray Kaukonde, because of his “dented” past.
Kachepa is notorious for instigating violence and threatening people in the Mudzi area. He is understood to have instigated the violent attack that resulted in the death of an MDC-T Ward chairman, Cephas Magura last year. He was also caught on film last threatening his constituents with violence, after an event he organised flopped.
Saungweme meanwhile said the Mudzi North resignations show a growing “disenchantment” in ZANU PF circles, despite the party’s repeated denials that there are any incidents of infighting. – SW Radio Africa News
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