By Lorraine Muromo | NewsDay |
Former MDC-T vice-president Obert Gutu, who has since defected to the ruling Zanu PF party, on Tuesday claimed that none of the opposition parties stood a chance against Zanu PF in the 2023 elections.
Gutu, who was recently paraded by President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he crossed the floor to Zanu PF together with former MDC Alliance senator James Makore, made the utterances during an interview with Alpha Media Holdings’ Heart and Soul TV (HStv).
“I put my money on Zanu PF. There is no political party in this country that can beat Zanu PF in any free and fair election. I have done my studies, I have done my analysis and I have looked at the numbers,” Gutu said.
On human rights abuses, Gutu said they should not be tolerated in Zimbabwe, adding that people should rally behind Mnangagwa’s new dispensation.
“We should learn to be tolerant to divergent views and even opposing views, but the problem that we have in this country is if I say I am anti-sanctions, I am not necessarily saying all the people that are responsible for human rights violations are good people. No! What I am saying is let’s open a new chapter,” he said.
“Things change in politics, I think the second republic is one of the governments which have been unfairly treated both internally and externally because if we take a look at President Mnangagwa, he has gone out of his way to say we are doing things differently.”
However, Mnangagwa’s government was this week adjudged by the United States as one of the worst human rights abusers in the world.
“I believe that this direction, he (Mnangagwa) is taking to fight corruption even if people are saying he is not doing enough, catching and releasing (corrupt people), but that effort I can call it an incremental gain.”
On his defection to Zanu PF, Gutu said: “I want to associate myself with a party that is nationalistic and does not play to the whims of imperialism, a party that wants to push the agenda of the African people.”
He took a dig at the fights in the opposition MDC camp and its various factions.
“The insults that the two factions exchange on social media, you might fear that if they see each other on the streets they will kill each other. It’s bad politics,” he said.
Did Gutu defect from any political party? He came from home to join ZANU. He resigned from post and membership of MDC. He stayed at home. He then rejoined politics. That is when he joined ZANU.
By the time he joined ZANU gutu was not known to any political party
Ernest Mushiyi dako
True
Joel Chitakure waudzwa chokwadi and all u can say is dako. Ndiyani dako pakadai?
Which normal person can vote zanu
Atanga kurotomoka semunhu akapihwa mudzepete weZnpf .
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Whatelse can you say its because you are ED’s puppet
No words for this clown.
April fools day 😀😀
When MDC A got a historic vote in the last election GUTU was not part of it,so he is just talking nonsense
Sing for your supper… 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ok free and fair or free nd fear ?
He is hallucinating
What does he mean by free and fair ? What is he trying to tell the people?
Evening when I was proposing to a girl,I never stooped so low to a stage of telling her that I would swap her for my mom
benzi redhara
Tsek
Kkk kkk kumhata
Freee and fair anoziva here ? Imbwa iyi inozvambaradzwa
Let them do the reforms if none beat them
Wadiii watii no party cn develop Zimbabwe thn Zimbabwe nhai iwe sataan
Satan
Hatichaziva kuti ari kupenga ndiwe here kana kuti iZanu
Mbiti inotaurei iyi
Ko zvaaimboti Zanu of inobira wani zvachinja nhasi manje
Grade reganja ramunoputiswa naDambudzo rakaoma.
Zanu yakakwapaidzwa 2008 ikapedza Mwedzi mitatu kuti iburitse ma results