By Staff Reporter
MDC-T Secretary General Tendai Biti says President Robert Mugabe must sack his advisors after their poor advice subjected the 89 year old Zanu PF leader to “embarrassment and humiliation” at the SADC summit in Mozambique.
Regional leaders forced Mugabe to postpone presidential and parliamentary elections by 14 to 30 days, at a dramatic summit in Maputo on Saturday. Mugabe had unilaterally proclaimed the election date as July 31 last week.
Biti believes Mugabe’s advisory team should be fired for allowing him to make an illegal proclamation. This he said had created “a disaster for President Mugabe who was embarrassed before an entire SADC summit.”
Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, secretary-general of Ncube’s MDC commented from Maputo, saying it was sad that Mugabe had been wrongly advised by a faction within Zanu PF.
“I am sitting in this summit and so conflicted, I have listened to President Mugabe, heard Prime Minister Tsvangirai, listened to professor Ncube give a plain and simple explanation on the unconstitutionality of the proclamation.
“I am glad we can put our case, but do we have to get to where a group of people drag their leader (Mugabe) here, advise him wrongly therefore embarrassing him in front of his colleagues?
“How do people set their leader up like this? I can’t even look at him, but more so I am angry with this group who want President Mugabe to end his career this way.”