MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has described his erstwhile colleague, Douglas Mwonzora as a loose cannon misinterpreting a recent Supreme Court ruling through abuse of authority he did not have.
Mwonzora was recently reinstated as MDC-T secretary-general after the Supreme Court ruled Chamisa was not the legitimate leader of the MDC-T.
The judges went on to appoint Thokozani Khupe interim president before ordering her to organise an extraordinary congress in three months to replace late founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai who died in 2018.
Mwonzora has confirmed the party will hold the congress on 31 July.
However, addressing journalists outside the Harare Magistrates’ Courts Saturday, Chamisa accused Mwonzora of misrepresenting the Supreme Court ruling as it only gave limited powers to Khupe to use the party’s 2014 structures and organise the congress.
“He (Mwonzora) is not reinstated. He is abusing the authority that he does not have,” Chamisa said.
“The Supreme Court reinstated Thokozani Khupe only with a limited mandate to organise our past not even the future,” Chamisa said before advising Mwonzora, and MDC-T national chairperson, Morgen Komichi to go for a mental health examination.
“Examine them medically. Even if you go to Ngomahuru, how many people will claim they are normal?”
Ngomahuru is a government-run mental health institution in Masvingo.
Soon after his reinstatement, Mwonzora has been purging MPs close to Chamisa, a move that has claimed the scalps of four legislators who were last month expelled from Parliament after he wrote a letter recalling them.
Last Thursday, Mwonzora sought the assistance of the police and army to evict the MDC Alliance from the Harvest House now known as Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, the traditional home of MDC politics.
