Mujuru’s long rope to hang self

Mukachana Hanyani
THE move by Vice President Joyce Mujuru to bite the hand that was feeding her shows that politics is a dirty game which if not played well can bring a very promising person from grace into disgrace, like what the VP is now facing. She has failed to acknowledge that patience pays and that there is no short cut to success.

Prior to her ordeal, VP Mujuru was well placed to take over from President Mugabe in the event that the President called it a day in his office. Unfortunately she failed to wait until that day. She blindly rushed into trying to illegally fast track her entrance into the highest office, thereby destroying the best chances of her life.

Those who misled her into planning that move were never good friends, but the schemers of those plans misled her into submerging herself into political doldrums. As the VP of this country, she had all the opportunities to discuss everything she wanted with the President, but she thought otherwise.

It boggles the mind to imagine why the VP failed to report such meetings which were allegedly held by those coup plotters. As the VP, she could have reported the meetings which she allegedly held with those assassin plotters as well as that of the former USA ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray to her superior, the President, as a way of disassociating herself from coup plotters. The Julius Assange initiated Wikileaks splashed that the VP had a secret meeting with the former USA ambassador in a dark room, at a house situated in the posh northern suburbs of Harare, where she did not want anyone to know about such a meeting.

Charles Ray, in the Wikileaks reportedly said that they were discussing business ventures between her and American companies. Some results of such a meeting between her and Charles Ray were kept under the carpet, and people got to know about such a meeting when the Wikileaks publicised that. So, such a trend of conducting business with foreign diplomats behind closed doors by the VP when that was supposed to be done through the eyes of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shows that the VP was positioning herself for more challenging things to come. She was in actual fact acting as the final decision-maker on her own right without regard for her principal, the President.

Vice President Mujuru decided to keep such a meeting between her and Charles Ray secret from her superior cementing the belief that she was placing herself in a good move to take over the leadership of the country.

If the VP was not harbouring such intentions, she could have openly told President Mugabe that she had such a meeting. Her silence showed she had no respect for the President, and that she saw herself as now ripe to be the next President of Zimbabwe.

The VP should have also reported to the President, those who came up with some plans to topple President Mugabe from power. Her silence on what was planned also gives credence to the effect that the VP had plans to topple the President through illegal means. It is now an open secret that the VP has sold out her credibility as a revolutionary par excellence to become a traitor. It is unfortunate that other people are failing to appreciate, and understand that what the VP did was wrong, but only rush to sympathize with her. Some people are failing to see the danger that was associated with the assassination of the Head of State and Government, but tend to sympathize with those bent on doing evil things against the President of Zimbabwe.

People who are sympathizing with her, feeling that she is being tormented by those claiming that she was planning to assassinate President Mugabe, should realise that there is no smoke without fire. Her supporters should now accept what the President has revealed about her moves to assassinate him.

It is now incumbent upon her supporters to realise that they were supporting a wrong candidate who was bent on causing alarm and despondency through the assassination of the Head of State and government.

While some people may want to doubt the truth surrounding such allegations levelled against her, they should also question why she has decided not to defend her allegations in public.

If she is quite aware that all those allegations levelled against her are not true, the VP could have attended the 6th ZANU PF Congress which was held from the 2nd – 7th of December 2014, so that she could have managed to explain herself in the public so as to make sure that her sympathizers and supporters got to know the truth surrounding such serious allegations revelled against her.

Her absence from the congress reflects that she was afraid of facing the reality of her evil and satanic plans.

As the Vice President of the party and government, she could have gone to the congress and defended herself.

The fact that the ZANU PF Harare Provincial Chairman Goodwill Masimirembwa told the delegates at the congress that everyone was welcome at the congress, including the VP, showed that her snub of the congress was on her personal volition without someone to blame.

VP Mujuru joined a number of those people who failed to contain their insatiable leadership motives when it comes to how succession issues in ZANU PF could be handled. As a senior politician in the party, she should have seen the writing on the wall that the route she was contemplating to take was dark.

The VP could have taken some lessons from what happened to some people who thought that they could make it without President Mugabe. In the 1990s, Edgar Tekere tried his luck with the so called Zimbabwe Unity Movement (ZUM), but he failed dismally.

In the turn of the 21st century, Dr Simba Makoni and Dr Dumiso Dabengwa thought that they were good enough to challenge the leadership of President Mugabe, leading them to add on to the list of non-entities that retired into the political dust bins.

So the VP has now joined such lists of those who did not realise that there is no short cut to political success. VP Mujuru is now cursing the day on which she woke up with the foiled plans and strategies to illegally take over the leadership of ZANU PF and government.

VP Mujuru`s alleged plans to take the throne after assassination of President Mugabe turned her into more of a political idiot than a sound revolutionary worth emulating. Her miscalculated maneuvers soiled her once glorified image in the country. All her trust vanished over night like morning dew. Shame on her!

 

Mukachana Hanyani is a Harare based political analyst.