Front for Economic Emancipation in Zimbabwe (FEEZ) leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has lost confidence in Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa’s capabilities of dislodging ZanuPF out of power in 2023.
Earlier in the year, the FEEZ leader announced that his party would work with CCC and attended one of its rallies.
Additionally, Tsenengamu cited Chamisa and Former Cabinet Minister Saviour Kasuwere as the two leaders with the potential to rescue the country from the current quagmire.
However, the position has since changed.
During a press conference, last Tuesday Tsenegamu said Chamisa was not the right man for the task at hand.
“Yes, we admit that they (CCC) are a strong movement that is a fact.
“Advocate Nelson Chamisa is very likable, popular, and a good public speaker but we think he is weak somehow and ineffective.
“The situation that Zimbabwe finds itself in doesn’t require leadership that thinks ZanuPF is going to be removed through prayers and tweeting.
Despite being a lawyer, Chamisa is also a pastor and has on numerous occasions used his social media accounts to communicate biblical texts.
Tsenengamu joins a list of other political commentators who have suggested that Chamisa’s approach does not inspire hope of victory against ZanuPF.
Chamisa Fails To Use Numbers In His Favour.
The FEEZ leader added that, despite the number of votes Nelson Chamisa garnered in 2018, he has failed to use the numbers to unsettle ZanuPF.
“Look at how CCC members are rotting in jail when we have a very popular opposition which had more than 500 000 people voting in the 2018 elections in Harare alone but they fail to mount a formidable challenge to ZanuPF.
“Look at how people are being tossed around and evicted from their rural lands and the alternative has done nothing, ” said Tsenengamu.
Intra-Party Conflict.
Although Chamisa came neck and neck with ZanPF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2018, Tsenengamu maintains that the U-turn on working with Chamisa stems from the internal conflict within his party.
“How can you ask him to unite people when he has failed to unite his own party?
“When there are divisions in his own movement.
“We don’t think he has to want it takes to deliver the Zimbabwe that we want,” Tsenengamu said.
Upon losing hope in Chamisa, Tsenengamu’s party has established a movement known as the Third Way, which seeks to bring small political parties and other stakeholders who will together select candidates to represent the movement at national, constituency, senate, and council levels during the upcoming elections.
The movement is currently holding nationwide consultations and will reveal its membership in the near future.
