HARARE – Just as we reported on Monday, MDC-99 leader Job Sikhala has rejoined the MDC led by founding president Morgan Tsvangirai and confirmed this decision at a press conference in Harare today.
And just as we reported on Monday, Sikhala will be unveiled to party supporters at a rally in Bulawayo this coming Saturday. Also announcing his return to the MDC was Joubert Mudzumwe who was the national chairman of the smaller MDC under Arthur Mutambara.
When the MDC split in 2005, Sikhala went with the faction of the party led by then Secretary General Welshman Ncube. A few years later he broke away from Ncube’s party citing what he called dictatorial tendencies. He then formed his MDC-99, naming it after the year in which the once united MDC was formed.
Tsvangirai appeared to be courting Sikhala during two weekend rallies. On Saturday at Huruyadzo Shopping Centre, St Mary’s, Chitungwiza, he declared that he would be passing through Sikhala’s home. The former St Mary’s legislator however wrote on Facebook that it was unfortunate he was not at home.
Addressing another rally at the Hunters Garden Park in Mabvuku on Sunday, Tsvangirai claimed “Sikhala contacted me this morning (Sunday) saying he wants to come back; I asked him why he left the party in first place and he said mistakes are made ‘I want to re-join others and complete the struggle’.”
Although Sikhala fired back saying “That is lies; I think he was just overexcited at seeing some supporters considering his party is collapsing. I don’t have his number, in the first place, and I am not thinking about going (back) there,” Nehanda Radio reported how Sikhala spent Monday at Tsvangirai’s house.
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