Media reports that Robert Mugabe had offered a vice presidency
position and cabinet posts to Morgan Tsvangirai have been dispelled by
the MDC-T, who on Thursday repeated their resolution not to participate
in government.
The 89 year old Mugabe has delayed announcing his new cabinet after
claiming a 61% landslide victory over Tsvagirai in the July 31st
elections, and his ZANU PF party claiming a two thirds majority win in
parliament.
The delay has led to speculation that Mugabe may be considering
Tsvangirai for the vice presidency. The independent NewsDay newspaper
contacted presidential spokesperson George Charamba about this issue and
he said: “I don’t know. We will come back to you when ready. Don’t
force us.”
NewsDay also published statements allegedly made Monday by the MDC-T
National Youth leader, Solomon Madzore, claiming such an offer had been
made.
“Our President Morgan Tsvangirai has been approached by ZANU PF
offering him the post of First Vice-President” and “some of our
think-tanks have been approached with a view to offering them
ministerial posts,” Newsday quoted Madzore as saying.
But the MDC-T spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora told SW Radio Africa on
Thursday that no such offer had been made by Mugabe. He said “some
overtures” had been made by “people purporting to represent ZANU PF” but
nothing official had been received from Mugabe.
“We certainly know nothing about that and I doubt whether it is true.
I don’t think Mugabe is that benevolent at all, but we have not
received anything formal from ZANU PF at all,” Mwonzora explained.
Regarding the NewsDay report quoting Solomon Madzore, the MDC-T
spokesman said he had contacted the youth leader who denied ever making
such a claim, only saying that he “was quoted out of context”.
Mwonzora went further to confirm that their National Council had
resolved on August 3rd that they would not be part of government at the
cabinet level, and would not accept such “benevolence” from ZANU PF.
Mwonzora also confirmed that the MDC-T would participate in
parliament and local councils, because he said those party officials had
won the positions under difficult conditions and deserved to be there.
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