Daggers out for Tendai Biti

**ACRIMONY: Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti**

… as CCC political powerplay creates uncertainty

Zim Now Writer

As the drama in the Citizens Coalition for Change continues to unfold, sources in the opposition party is set to expel the former Harare East Constituency National Assembly member, Tendai Biti.

This follows the announcement of the firing of party president Nelson Chamisa by self-proclaimed interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu. Tshabangu had also written to Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda, recalling 15 CCC legislators together with 17 councillors arguing they had ceased to be members of the opposition party.

After receiving Tshabangu’s letter, Mudenda proceeded to notify the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission of vacancies in the 15 mainly Matebeleland constituencies.

It also comes as Biti refuted claims made in Tshabangu’s statement that he had been made interim president, together with Welshman Ncube, mandated with taking the party to an extraordinary congress.

https://zimbabwenow.co.zw/articles/6598/turmoil-in-opposition-ccc-tshabangu-fires-chamisa

Wrote Biti in an X message: “I am not the President of any political party. I refuse to be drawn in this mess. May my privacy and dignity be respected. # Asifuni ubumbulu.”

Sources Media tried to reach Biti to find out whether he was now CCC president but found him in a conversation with a party supporter on his other phone, where he is reported to have told the supporter that Tshabangu had made the announcement prematurely.

Biti said in the leaked audio: “Find me on this phone (number) we need to talk. I think that he (Tshabangu) has been premature. Munhu (Chamisa) anga achapera ega. Kupera ega munhu uyu (it was only just a matter of time before this (Chamisa) person was finished. He was almost finished.”

Sources within CCC seem to be aware of Tshabangu’s partners in the plot with Chamisa saying in a curt X post yesterday: “A Leopard Never Changes Its Spots!”, before posting ye again this morning.

“OUR BIGGEST STRENGTH IS OUR BIGGEST WEAKNESS… Our opposition and opponents underestimate us. We forgive. We tolerate. We involve. We accomodate (sic). We are loving and kind. We invest in peace. We’re nation builders. And that magnanimity, benevolence and providence is often abused! #Godisinit.”

Relations between Biti and Chamisa have never been rosy of late, especially in the run-up to the August 23 Harmonised Elections when the latter was accused of siding with Allan Norman Markham in the candidate selection process.

The former Finance Minister in the 2009-13 inclusive government eventually lost the right to represent Harare East to Markham in the National Assembly election.