Madhuku, a University of Zimbabwe law professor, said the MDC-T gave Mugabe sufficient room to manipulate the country’s electoral process. He told the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) congress that the MDC-T gave Mugabe too much power through the new constitution.
The NCA campaigned for a no vote during Zimbabwe’s constitutional referendum held in March this year, a development that widened fissures between the constitutional body and the MDC-T.
Madhuku blamed the MDC-T for being “crybabies who plotted their own downfall”.
“Where Mugabe got his votes, we do not know,” he added. “What we know is that Mugabe had this constitution which he signed and he was responsible for duties such as appointing the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) commissioners and after that, we do not know why the MDC-T wants to complain when they gave the powers to Mugabe in the new constitution.”
Mugabe’s victory was condemned by the MDC-T, civic society group and most Western nations for a myriad of irregularities, including the lack of an audited voters’ roll.
Madhuku, however, conceded that his political party faced a lot of hurdles in its bid to oust Mugabe and Zanu (PF) from power.
“For the NCA, the MDC-T’s departure from government left us with a bigger burden than the one we had before. They left the country with a constitution that is as undemocratic as before,” he said.
Madhuku denied claims he was working with Zanu (PF) to sabotage the MDC-T.
“They claim that Madhuku is now Zanu (PF) yet they spent more than four and a half years with him (Mugabe). The closest that I came to Mugabe was in 1990 when I was graduating at the University of Zimbabwe,” he said.
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You must instead be happy about MDC’s weaknesses as they are helping you get some political milage. I think people will be happy to see you finding faults with other parties as well if we are to believe your objectivity.
Welcome Madhuku to the world of Zimbabwean politics you are shocked how Mugabe won the 31 July election i am glad you are in the frail now you will the hard way and realise instead of blamming the MDC -T saying they lost the election while you know what was behind the rigging machinery was in full swing .
Now you now have your own political party wait and see and learn i know in your next statement you will be saying Tsvangirai anga ari murume akomana bcz you yourself will not even win a seat in Kanyi ku chipinge uko
It’s disingenuous for Madhuku to pretend to be puzzled by Mugabe’s NIKUV votes. Madhuku threw all caution to the wind and was advocating for the July 31 election though it was now clear that ZANU PF was going to rig through a manipulated voters’ roll they did not avail to anyone except themselves right up to election time. Morgan Tsvangirai is still waiting for the electronic voters’ roll 2 months after the election!
Zanupf has no a single professor .bt they are smart