adminMarvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent
TALKS to merge the Professor Welshman Ncube-led MDC and the Renewal Team led by Tendai Biti are now at an advanced stage.
This was revealed by Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, the Renewal Team’s interim chairman at a party meeting in Gwanda last Sunday. Nkomo said there is no single party in Zimbabwe that can defeat Zanu-PF on its own.
“I’m the current leader but at my age I cannot be the party’s president. However, there is no single opposition party that can defeat (President) Mugabe thus we’re having talks with other opposition parties. We’re currently discussing with MDC led by Welshman to merge with the Renewal Team and I can say the talks are going very well. If that happens, we will actually have a formidable organisation,” said Nkomo.
He said MDC-T lost in last year’s elections mainly because of the imposition of candidates.
“This party is God-appointed and we’ll not do anything against the will of God,” added Nkomo, who was accompanied by the Renewal Team’s secretary for social welfare Lucia Matibenga and secretary for defence and security and also Luveve MP Reggie Moyo.
MDC spokesperson Nhlanhla Dube said they were having “informal talks” with the Renewal Team on a possible merger.
Online Reporter