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CCC interim secretary-general Mr Sengezo Tshabangu has vowed to bring the opposition party back to constitutionalism and towards a structured direction as it is, in its current status, heading towards “total breakdown and collapse”.
In a statement yesterday, Mr Tshabangu said it was now time for the opposition outfit to close “the chapter of divisions and individualism” as this was only taking it down the abyss.
He said it had become evident that fear-mongering and corruption activities were doing more harm than good to CCC. Of late the opposition outfit has been rocked by allegations of gross corruption, hooliganism and personalisation. Mr Tshabangu said the party’s state of affairs had now become a grave matter requiring urgent attention.
“To effectively deal with these challenges, the party must as a matter of urgency return to Constitutionalism and manage its affairs through constitutional and formal structures in the interest of collective responsibility to ensure efficiency and accountability to restore stability and certainty.
“It is clear that discordant and irreconcilable views on how to achieve the necessary democratic breakthrough in the country can easily lead to the total breakdown and collapse of the movement.”
“This risk is made worse by the current failure to rely on the party constitution, party values and party organs as the premises for collective decisions and actions, as well as shared and collective responsibility,” he said.
Mr Tshabangu charged the party’s leadership, which was elected at its 2019 congress when it was still the MDC, to “stand up and be counted” in a clear indication that he was calling for the CCC to revert to the 2019 resolutions.
“In the circumstances, going forward henceforth, we are committed and resolved to: Finalise the correction of processes and conduct that undermined the party’s internal democracy and collective decision making through ego-tripping, self-aggrandisement, fear mongering and corruption.
“Also, our party’s membership and supporters were profoundly perturbed and watched helplessly when the party’s National Leadership elected at the Gweru Congress in 2019 was quietly but effectively and unceremoniously purged unconstitutionally and displaced through opaque processes under dark circumstances that left a gaping vacuum that was illegally filled by a handful of scheming individuals with a nefarious agenda- some of them with no history in the democratic movement -who had neither a mandate nor the requisite experience to implement the people’s agenda and programme of action for the change that the citizens expect and deserve.
“In the circumstances, we call on these leaders who were elected at the Gweru Congress to now stand up and be counted by coalescing and uniting as per their collective mandate to restore the party back to its constitutional foundation and to reset it towards its historic and traditional constitutional pathway, as per the historic decisions of the party’s National Council meeting that founded CCC on 22nd January 2022,” he said.
Notable CCC leaders who were elected at the CCC convention in Gweru were Messrs Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube, who were Mr Nelson Chamisa’s deputies but have since been ejected by the latter and are in political limbo.
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