By Staff Writer
A ghostly self- appointed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu seems more determined to cause confusion in the opposition camp as he sticks to his guns maintaining that his role in in the party is legitimate.
Tshabangu surfaced from the wilderness this week and petitioned the Local Government Minister Winston Chitando ordering him to withdraw 15 CCC MPs and 17 Councilors saying they had been recalled for unspecified reasons.
The self- imposed SG has a questionable past amid allegations that he has served in the now defunct MDC political party.
Other sources within the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) alleged that Tshabangu once ‘invaded the labour movement and caused untold mayhem around 2009 when he was still the President of the Zimbabwe Catering and Hotel Workers Union (ZCHWU).
CCC spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi immediately dismissed the wild claims made by Tshabangu clarifying that he is not in any way a part of the CCC top leadership.
But hitting back a determined Tshabangu told a daily online publication that he is a bonafide leader of the CCC out to correct a situation gone out of hand.
“This is an internal issue in CCC. Those recalled have done something and I cannot divulge anything at the moment. I will be in a position to explain the reasons very soon. We are citizens and we just want to correct something that was not done properly.
“A product of an illegitimate process becomes illegitimate as well,’’ Tshabangu said.
Quizzed about his appointment as the interim SG in a party that has no existing structures, he responded: “Are you saying CCC has no structures? If so, where is Nelson Chamisa’s ‘presidential’ post coming from?”
Chamisa dissolved political posts after forming the CCC movement and everyone became a ‘Change Champion’ of the party.
Added Tshabangu, “Negotiations had not failed but the internal politics in CCC had to be resolved either way.”
“If I do not belong to CCC, as they say, l do not care. I am going to the initial principles of our party. If they think I am an infiltrator, they should go to court and see whether they are going to win this case. This time, we are going to play a hardball. My issue is that I only have different views so those leaders will engage me.”
He denied being involved in the double candidates’ saga during the CCC primaries.
“I never caused any problems. In the structures, ‘Bereka Mwana’ strategy was not a narrative. We are just correcting that,” he added.
