Hell hath no fury like ‘political elders’ scorned

03 Mar, 2017 - 00:03 0 Views
Hell hath no fury like ‘political elders’ scorned

The ManicaPost

Doctorate holder Mujuru’s  sympathy and campaign gimmick a fortnight ago when she tagged ZimPF ‘elders’ as sex scavengers targeting her, is soon to turn into a nightmare following Messrs Mutasa and Gumbo teaming up to retaliate by blasting the widow with a US$5 million defamation lawsuit.

BATTLE lines were drawn when Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF)’s interim president, Dr Joice Mujuru expelled the founding members.

The recent ‘Queen Bee’ drama which started off as mere political talk, has taken a new twist with Messrs Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo foraging in all directions hoping to stumble on something to nail Dr Mujuru down.

Doctorate holder Mujuru’s  sympathy and campaign gimmick a fortnight ago when she tagged ZimPF ‘elders’ as sex scavengers targeting her, is soon to turn into a nightmare following Messrs Mutasa and Gumbo teaming up to retaliate by blasting the widow with a US$5 million defamation lawsuit.

Dr Mujuru’s utterances perceived to have been precipitated by a desperate attempt to lure sympathy from the female constituency (who are more susceptible to a similar ordeal), has resulted in this dog eat dog scenario, which has seen weary Mr Gumbo being dragged into the mud by Mr Mutasa who is already rotting in a web of debts owing to unwarranted lawsuits.

Mr Didymus Mutasa

Mr Mutasa, who seems obsessed with the habit of shaming and embarrassing his former leaders, lives a lot to be desired. The wheel of fate took a complete circle earlier this month, when Mr Mutasa’s Umwinsdale home was ravished by police and the Sherriff department seizing his property for failure to pay up a US$26 000 lawyer’s debt.

This US$26 000 debt culminated after Mr Mutasa lost a court case against unfair dismissal from Zanu-PF, again a similar scenario likely to surface today as he seeks to redress his ego issues by suing Dr Mujuru over defamation of character.

Despite Dr Mujuru’s failure to explicitly spit names of the former stalwarts, Messrs Gumbo and Mutasa have come out guns blazing accusing Dr Mujuru of working with the Central Intelligence Organisation in an effort to discredit her potential supporters; questioning her political and social standing by labelling her as politically ignorant and dull, and now slapping her with a defamation lawsuit; what else remains in the bag? One wonders.

Surely hell hath no fury than a woman scorned, the bruised elders seem determined to leave no stone unturned in their retribution quest.

To quote Dr Mujuru verbatim: “I want you to Google then advise each other. They said Mai Mujuru, we want you to be our queen bee. I was supposed to mate with all the men in the party. I was supposed to be their wife,” she said.

Dr Mujuru merely accused the whole group of party ‘elders’ whom she had expelled for seeking to turn her into a sex slave, after proposing that she becomes the opposition party’s “queen bee”, without citation of specific names, alas this defamation lawsuit.

‘‘I am sure they know each other better!

Mr Rugare Gumbo

Since the disintegration of the party, Messrs Mutasa and Gumbo seem be at pain to discredit Dr Mujuru at any given opportunity, choosing to embarrass her for discordant decoding of the queen bee concept, and shallow understanding of political dichotomy and processes, a case Dr Mujuru is yet to prove otherwise.

Problems confronting ZimPF have become significantly worse since the implosion of the ZimPF, to borrow from Chinua Achebe, ‘things are falling apart, the centre cannot hold.’

However, Dr Mujuru promised to retaliate by warning Messrs Gumbo and Mutasa that more is coming their way.

“We want the world to know who they are in reality…. They are just small old boys in bigger people’s robes,” said Dr Mujuru’s spokesperson.

Pitiably ZimPF has become fragmented in its infancy, becoming Dr Mujuru’s pastime bedroom office and the elders’ war zone. One typical characteristic of opposition political parties in Zimbabwe, they always end up fragmented.

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