MKD Leader could do without party spokesman like Denford Magora in his team

Self annointed MKD leader Dr Simba Makoni could well do without loose canons like party spokesman Denfrod Magora stirring murky waters from his checkered Zanu PF links through linking him to unfounded immoral behaviour by his in-laws

If unofficial coalition opposition Mavambo Kusile Dawn (MKD) spokesman Denford Magora has any credibility or for that matter the party he represents has any political credibility he must concede that for once he got it wrong about outstanding GPA issues bedevilling the union of convenience between Zanu PF and the MDC’s in government.

On 15 May2009 under the leader Outstanding Issues To Remain Outstanding” the MKD through its spokesman concluded that:

“Instead of hunting down people like myself who are pointing out the futility of this MDC-PF regime, MDC-T supporters would be well advised to tell their PM and their leadership to forget about the struggle for posts and instead concentrate on delivering services for the people, on formulating policies that actually work and are different to the failed ZANU PF policies.

The fight that they have set up for themselves is untenable and the more they issue deadlines and play up "outstanding issues", the more egg they wake up with on their faces every morning.

But, of course, the MDC-T are ordained by God, and Tsvangirai is a Black Jesus. They know it all. They listen to nobody.”

And judging by developments thereafter, maybe the MDC-T zealots are justified in banking their trust in Tsvangirai’s leadership than any other.

The old adage that “you can’t put a good man down,” seems to echo whenever it has been attempted to obliterate Tsvangirai’s name from the political leadership in Zimbabwe by whosoever and for whatsoever reason.
And the attempts are numerous from many who have learnt the hard way that the MDC-T leader is not in his position by accident but by deliberate political acumen on his part and his ability to rise up to occasions when the chips are down for his party.
The MKD spokesman appears to be the latest victim of the MDC-T leader’s political intuition for him to be forced to disclose- “Tsvangirai Appoints "Girlfriend" As Ambassador” on his blog that also doubles as the MKD official Website barely two months after declaring such a proposition to be, “untenable and that the more they (Tsvangirai and his MDC Party) issue deadlines and play up "outstanding issues", the more egg they wake up with on their faces every morning.”

The temptation to believe that the MKD and its spokesman have been publicly choked by an unproven political superiority complex over Tsvangirai and his MDC party is very high here and I must admit very plausible too.

Denford Magora made it clear that “Mugabe responded to Biti's ‘ultimatum’ by saying, ‘No one threatens me,’ and was ‘now determined that no resolution of the outstanding issues is reached before the threatened May 17 MDC-T National Council meeting” which had come to pass as he had predicted.
Magora explained that the outstanding issues he had predicted would remain outstanding regardless of whatever threats the MDC-T party made publicly or silently were;
“Still, the situation in Zimbabwe today is that outstanding issues have not been resolved. Governor Fagan, Gideon Gono, and Prosecutor Shylock Tomana, remain at their posts.

Nelson Chamisa remains Minister of Nothing-in-Particular (at least he has a cosseted Mercedes Benz ML into which he can retreat and sulk).

Permanent Secretaries (null and void) remain very much valid.

Ambassadors, First Secretaries, Provincial Governors and all the other issues that are sticking in the MDC-T's throat remain firmly lodged there tonight.”

This he declared had proven how poor the MDC-T was at agenda setting and by extension governing our country.

But as he makes the startling revelation that the MDC-T leader and Prime Minister has appointed his girlfriend called as an Ambassador hoping to disguise the humble pie he woken up covering all over his face and certainly not the Premier’s, he is forced to disclose some well guarded secrets between his party leader and the Premier.

The first point to note is that Magora has conceded that the MDC-T ultimatum on outstanding issues has been taken seriously in so far as the appointment of Ambassadors is concern notwithstanding the hostile spin that the Premier is abusing his powers by appointing his girlfriends to fill one of the posts.

No shred of evidence is provided for this libellous accusation of the Premier. The intention is to provoke the Premier into reacting to the libel with a lawsuit or an arrest of the parrot of intentional falsehoods so that he can now justify why the MDC is bereft of ideas to turnaround the economy and reliant on Zanu PF strategies to silence opponents.

But Magora should know that he will get no such reaction from the Premier and has an obligation to accuse him of anything as long as he does so factually and not with the falsehoods he has printed on his blog.

Next it is important to hear that the MKD leader has been holding secret discussions with this alleged Premier’s girlfriend now destined to become our country’s Ambassador and Dr Simba Makoni lost a golden opportunity to become our Premier through this Premier’s girlfriend having been offered the post on condition he dropped his Presidential aspirations.

Finally these disclosures are timely made on the eve that the premier is due to meet the SADC chairman over outstanding issues nagging the coalition government. One wonders why if not to embarrass the Premier that he is pushing for positions in the coalition government to parcel out to his relatives and friends Zanu PF style.

Whatever the aspersions Magora intends to cast on the PM’s morality, it does not change the admission that the Premier now has powers to determine who will be the country’s Ambassador to which country as a principal in this coalition government a position MKD and Magora has laboured to deny in all his previous submissions.

No wonder why many more people would rather be associated with the MDC-T than the MKD. The party appears better focussed on real issues bothering the people that the childish trivia coming from MKD and other political formations that sponsor it.

The only outstanding issue is how the Premier always manages to turn tables against his detractors with such ease. Not the GPA issues MKD would like us to believe will remain outstanding until it assumes power which is unlikely during the generation of any of us within the age of majority at present.