Editorial Comment: Didymus Mutasa should zip it

herald-online-thFOR someone who is in India ostensibly to nurse his ailing wife, former Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa is behaving like a busybody on the campaign trail to revive a dying political career. And the way Mutasa is going, things are likely to get worse for him unless he realises he does not have a God-ordained right to be in the Zanu-PF Central Committee or its secretariat, the Politburo, if the people have said No to him.

Either it’s the disorientation of being in far off India, or the effects of multi-tasking: nursing his wife while trying to breathe life into a dying career, but Mutasa has been dishing out fibs which fibs have been swallowed in toto by some captive tabloids that suddenly see him as a towering political giant having considered him a repugnant dwarf over the years.

For the record, Didymus Mutasa was not expelled from Zanu-PF as he claims, only two people were expelled, the renegade former war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda and the bellicose, unrepentant Rugare Gumbo while Mutasa, Joice Mujuru, Nicholas Goche, Webster Shamu, Francis Nhema, Dzikamai Mavhaire and Munacho Mutezo, to mention just a few, were simply rejected by voters in intra-party elections before being dismissed from Government on account of the serious allegations of graft and subversion levelled against them.

It should never be forgotten that Mutasa faces serious allegations that border on treason after he was implicated in a plot to not only depose but assassinate a popularly elected head of state and Government whose well-being – as his Presidential Affairs Minister – Mutasa was supposed to oversee.

It was on that basis that Mutasa was dismissed from Government.

While Mutasa harps at having been disenfranchised at congress, the record will show that his fate was sealed well before Zanu-PF’s 6th National People’s Congress convened in Harare when his home district of Makoni rejected him when Central Committee elections were held.

Mutasa contested those elections on November 24 and garnered the lowest number of votes in Makoni District.

Mutasa managed a paltry 85 votes to 149 for Cde Mandi Chimene, 165 for Dr Joseph Made, 169 for Cde Florence Majachani, and 177 for Cde Patrick Chinamasa.

The results, which saw the top three land Central Committee seats, were received with wild jubilation by party cadres in Makoni who welcomed Mutasa’s downfall.

We are thus left wondering from where Mutasa – a card-carrying member – gets the idea that he has a mandate to write to SADC and the African Union over an internal party process.

His actions, as we report elsewhere in this issue, have only served to vindicate the voters who rejected him.

It worth noting how Mutasa uses the inclusive pronoun “we’’ and not the exclusive “I’’ in his interviews, implying that he is the de facto spokesperson for the Mujuru cabal in the wake of the expulsion of Rugare Gumbo.

This view is buttressed by the fact that Dr Mujuru has not distanced herself from Mutasa’s utterances.

We hope Mutasa realises that with his misguided lobbying he is inviting the same fate that befell Rugare Gumbo – expulsion.

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