Lucia Matibenga, who crossed the floor from the MDC-T said the reunited MDC (comprising Tenda Biti’s Renewal Team and Welshman Ncube’s MDC) is was “the real political project people were waiting for”. She is the former MDC-T Women’s Assembly boss and was Minister for Public Service during the Government of National Unity. She is one of the founders of the original MDC.
“Today marks the last mile of the struggle towards the dismantling of tyranny and women should lead the march to State House after the 2018 elections,” Matibenga said, declaring that Zimbabwean politics would never be the same. According to Matibenga, the party’s grassroots was composed predominantly of women and would decide the outcome of elections.
Tendai Biti, co-secretary general of the United MDC, told The Zimbabwean that the reunification would demonstrate to the world that Zimbabwe was not a hopeless case. “Democratic Zimbabweans are restarting the political process,” he said.
The former Minister of Finance in the GNU said, he was humbled by the huge turnout at the reunification ceremony and would work tirelessly in whatever capacity to realise the ambitions of the downtrodden. Welshman Ncube, co-president of the United MDC, said the party would retrace its founding values and go back to the people for consultations at every stage of its journey. “What distinguishes our party from the rest is that we are motivated by the desire to serve, not lead, the people and our conduct will be governed by aspirations of the people,” Ncube said.
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