By Moses Matenga
Former MDC-T vice-president Obert Gutu, who defected to Zanu PF last week, says he crossed the floor after realising that the main opposition party had long been buried together with its late founder Morgan Tsvangirai in 2018.
He told NewsDay that he decided to join Zanu PF for its ideological clarity, adding that it took him two years to make the decision.
Gutu and former MDC Alliance senator James Makore joined the ruling party last week and were welcomed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior party officials during a ceremony held at State House.
“I took a decision to join Zanu PF after a lengthy process. I have been in the MDC for over 20 years after starting from a low position as organising secretary for Harare North district. I think the party just lost direction. In 2002, there was unity and the vibe and solidarity, but I don’t know what happened over time. There was backbiting, camps, money exchanging hands and that happened around 2004,” he
said.
“There was now a direct attack on Tsvangirai, being labelled a dictator, and it would appear he had his own intelligence, hence did what he did. Morgan would not openly show anger. Even if insulted, he would take it in and I think that was his strength and he would manage people. If Tsvangirai’s succession had been well-handled, the party would have been stronger.”
Gutu claimed that those that now assert to have liked Tsvangirai were the loudest in fighting him.
“Makore and a group of some elderly people stood with Tsvangirai at that time and they include Morgan Femai, the late Cephas Makuyana and others. (Elias) Mudzuri had a rural mobilising strategy that was vibrant. There was no Twitter that time and they really went on the ground just like what Zanu PF is doing now. ”
He claimed that the old guard in the MDC were now bitter as they worked for the party but remain as unsung heroes.
“The MDC has not healed since 2005. People say I hate (MDC Alliance leader Nelson) Chamisa), I don’t. Why should I? He is one of the few who know my village home, having been there with Tsvangirai and a few others and was here when my daughter graduated and even came with his wife,” Gutu said.
“I can tell you the MDC went with Tsvangirai. It was buried with Tsvangirai in Humanikwa village.”
Tsvangirai succumbed to colon cancer on February 14, 2018 and was buried at his rural home in Buhera. News Day
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Kumeso kwambuya vake…
Sentiy Sandaka Dube …ndiwe type yemazivanhu sorry vanhu vatizwa na Gutu.Apa unezera naye here kana kuziva Politics dololo basa kutuka,kuvhota auvhoti futi.
Jeremy Vanjeramz Munemo kkkkk tambai mushe
Jeremy Vanjeramz MunemoJeremy Vanjeramz Munemo handina kutizwa na gutu but ngasanyepere vanhu achiti mdc yakafa na tsvangirayi ngangoenda kunoba akanyarara simple
Iwewe chokwadi unotochiziva..
Urikutomamawo nenzara
Sentiy Sandaka Dube …Saka unoti chero ndirini Gutu ndinomira here nemutukiro waunoita? Politics tikadzibatira mudenga dzichatinetsa kuti isu vanhu tidzigadzirise dzinake dzive politics dzinovaka nyika.Saka iwe ausikuona zvirikuitika here? Chirikuita chichiora chinhu ichi kana pakasagadziriswa.Ukaona Vakuru vakaita saGutu vachigeza maoko chiripo chavaona chausingagoni kuona iwe,chaunogona kutuka Mbuya vake Chete.Asi kutuka Mbuya vake kunounza chingwa kauri here kana kwandiri? Chinounza chingwa kwauri nekwandiri ipolitics dzakanaka.Gutu atiza politics dzakadhakwa kusanganisira nemazisapota sorry masapota asina zvaanoziva akaita sewe wangu.kkkkk
Jeremy Vanjeramz MunemoJeremy Vanjeramz Munemo thank u vakuru vekuziva politics..
Sentiy Sandaka Dube …Ko ndaramba here? Ndirikutokanga waya otherwise iwe unotorinani.Ndirikunyika yevatorwa, it’s survival of the fittest Wangu.
Sentiy Sandaka Dube …Anoziva Politics ndivo vaurikutukira Mbuya avo,ini changu kutarisa ndirikuma terrace pagonekwa ndojamba ndopembera pakonewewa ndozunza maoko asi kwete pakuzosvika kutuka ndichiti Mbuya chakuti chakuti.kkkkkk
Mumwe akafa kozvagwa imwe shasha
The greatest advantage of telling the truth…. ls that, nobody believes it….🙏🏻
Fortune Zihura aaaa don’t think we are fools baba
Fortune Zihura bvaaapa
Fortune Zihura uri dako
Fortune Zihura dako rineshena
If nobody believes is it an advantage
Wamama pfungwa ukasiya dhodhi
Saka advantage ndeip manje?
Saka vanozvinetserei nechinhu chakafa zvacho . 2.4 million 2018 Presidential Elections votes cannot be buried easily.
muregerereyi. arikutsvaga kuraramisa mhuri
https://t.co/zkgysEbLNu
And you will go to hell with pf
Political prostitute practicing politics of the stomach
Figures do not lie. Chamisa gunnered about more than two million votes in 2018,which is double the nu… https://t.co/EI6tYYMJKO
Let him sing for his super
What do you expect from this sell out,down with you sell out down,meno amire
Josphat Verenga his father was killed by the comrades during the war for being a sell out…. so a fruit never falls far from the tree
Haaa apa pataurw chnonz chokwad chemahar kkk. Kan iyo zanu yakaend nemagamb akaf kar ana tongogar nan… https://t.co/4vwhyp8FEU
And he wasn’t buried with it himself….?
https://t.co/7mSYUiuE2E
ln Gutu’s myopic mind and eyes it died with Tsvangirai, but with us the general public we say it took… https://t.co/qNltOh47uv
God will punish u,mark my words
Mdc yaivako kare uku kutungana kwembudzi
Saka ku Zanu pf mavechii Mukoma Gutu
rikuti chiiko mbiti iyo
Murwere uyo😂musamutora https://t.co/xLtburAeZp seems urwere hwake hwaakupinda mupfungwa.akutoda rubatsiro!
2.6 million Tsvangirai wakamboisvitsa
Tswangirai was a selfish and a clueless leader who chose to destroy the people party and turn it into his personal project!
Ericado Trolip who wasn’t selfish??
Ericado Trolip zanoid and idiotic
Playing games
Only fool think like that nxaaa
I remember seeing you addressing a rally of less than 20 people
Fool
So he doesn’t know that ZPF died with Mugabe.
Taonezvi Mombeshora kkkkkkk
Taonezvi Mombeshora kkkkk ZANU haina kufa inongotonga ichongotonga hanzi ukarota Zanu pf yabva pachigaro muka unobika doro nokuti mudzimu unenge wakurasha kwavo kkkkkkkk hameno hameno
Zanu is still there
Chakafa ndiTsvangirai kwete support ende Chamisa anodiwa nevanhu kupfuura nyangwe Mugabe pamazuva ake ekutanga Mdc inongodiwa chero ikanzi yasara isina kana munhu dai maigona kutora support yeMdc zvaive nani
Makaita garira neko maona kuti mupfana oyenda nenyika ndokuti isai lockdown asataura anything matyiro amoita Chamisa anondi shamisa
Someone says I left mdc because it’s a violent part and he then joins zanu pf kkkkkk don’t u think he needs to go for psychiatric evaluation before its to late
Chicha dzingwazve ikoko nekungorasa muromo
Vana Gutu zvePolitics zvaramba mutokurumidzai mapihwa mapurazi munonorima,hapana zvozikanwa apo.
Haarevi nhema coz MDC yake naKhupe yakabva yafawo
This guy is bipolar
Great thinkers will find a way of carrying on with the struggle, cowards run away from challenges & responsibilities. Kufa kwemujoni kamba haivharwi!
Itai maelections musingabiriri tione chokwadi.
CHAMISA akapenga is too powerful than MRT
After Tsvangirai’s death this duck went to 2018 elections naKhuphe. Why do that since it was Dead? Anorwara uyu.
Aah mellah!!!
Ko kwawakange waenda naThokozanu kwaita sei
He is a blood liar
Mari Mari inodiwa apa vakomana
And noone believes you
Obert Gutu has been seeking relevance by crossing floors. This led to the ill-fated MDC Thoko Vice Presidency. Now it has led to the mouth of the crocodile.