A SENIOR MDC official says his party’s leadership will not lose sleep over remarks by Zanu PF founder member Enos Nkala that MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is the only candidate assured of a resounding victory in next year’s presidential election.
Report by Dumisani Sibanda Bureau Chief
Addressing a campaign rally at Ntepe business centre in Gwanda on Saturday, MDC Matabeleland South provincial chairman Petros Mukwena said Nkala was a discredited politician who should not be taken seriously. He added that the former Zanu PF politburo member had never spoken well of leaders from Matabeleland region.
“Enos Nkala was part of the marginalisation of this region. He made people suffer,” Mukwena said.
“He has never identified with people from Matabeleland. That is why he says someone from Harare will win elections.”
Nkala was recently quoted saying the contest in the next elections would be between Zanu PF and MDC-T, but tipped Tsvangirai’s party to win the polls.
Mukwena said there was nothing Zanu PF could offer the people as it was “now an overgrazed paddock”.
Nkala has been linked to the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres where an estimated 20 000 innocent civilians from Matabeleland and Midlands were butchered during a State-sponsored witch hunt for suspected dissidents.
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But Nkala has denied the charge.
Mukwena said it was unfortunate that there were people from the region like Nkala “who did not believe anything good can come from this region”.
“We had leaders like Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo, Joshua Nkomo, Lazarus Nkala — even though unfortunately the other Nkala, Enos Nkala, does not have the same qualities — who came from this province,” he said.
“But our province is one of those underdeveloped.”
