Tsvangirai kick-starts campaign

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday described President Robert Mugabe as arrogant and accused him of misleading his Sadc counterparts into believing that he was committed to the constitution-making process when in fact he was not.

Addressing civic society leaders at his offices at Charter House in Harare, Tsvangirai said the MDC-T was ready to launch a campaign for the adoption of the Copac draft constitution
He said despite Mugabe’s complaints to Sadc in Luanda, Angola, in June that he was not happy with what he called the negotiators’ delaying tactics on the constitution, it was him who had assumed that role to justify Zanu PF’s push for an election under the old constitution.

“In Luanda, President Mugabe said the negotiators were dilly-dallying and we should go for an election,” he said.

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