By Staff Reporter
OPPOSITION leader, Nelson Chamisa has questioned the rationale behind extending President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term of office arguing that the state of the nation’s affairs does not warrant such a move.
A section of ruling party Zanu-PF supporters have been clamoring for the incumbent’s term of office extension citing the developmental agenda which kicked off since the commencement of Mnangagwa’s presidency must not be disturbed.
But speaking during the funeral of Glenview South Member of Parliament (MP) Grandmore Hakata in Harare Saturday, Chamisa said, in apparent reference to Mnangagwa, bad governance resulting in collapsing infrastructure and poor service delivery is endemic in society, but he shockingly wanted a term extension.
“Chinonzi mumiriri kugara nevanhu, kutaura nevanhu, kufamba nevanhu, kubuda muvanhu, uchidzokera muvanhu, uchitaura zvevanhu, usingakanganwi vanhu, usingarasi vanhu.
”Ndaona migwagwa, ndokubva ndaona masewage ndokubva nadaona zvitoro, zvose zvaparara. Ndokubva ndabvunza kuti nhaiwe? Zvaunotaura, nekuparadza kwawaita unoti woda kuenda kuseri kwegomo nekuparadza kwawaita. Unoda kuendepi?”
Chamisa urged opposition activists to defend virtues Hakata stood for to improve citizens’ welfare.
The late MP, a Chamisa loyalist, rose to prominence following his widely reported arrest a few days before the 2023 general elections for allegedly holding a car rally. He won the elections while in prison anyway, only to be released after the polls.
Chamisa, a lawyer-cum-politician, who quit as CCC president citing infiltration by Zanu PF, has hinted at a comeback, urging his supporters to remain steadfast in the wake of machinations to decimate alternative voices.
The charismatic 47-year-old opposition leader was cheered by mourners as he announced Mnangagwa’s exit was coming soon, stating “he who says l am not going, is already gone.”
