Mutambara rewards another loser
The Mutambara faction is set to appoint Losing Speaker of Parliament candidate Paul Themba Nyathi as the governor for Matabeleland South province once President Mugabe and Prime Minister Tsvangirai agree on when the new provincial leaders should be sworn in.
Nyathi last year lost the Speaker of Parliament position despite his faction having struck a deal with ZANU PF,howver its MPs defied the party leadership and backed MDC chair Lovemore Moyo. Nyathi lost a re-election bid in his Gwanda South constituency in 2005 and last year contested the ‘supposedly safe’ Nketa constituency where he even lost by a wider margin to MDC-T Agriculture Secretary Seiso Moyo.
All MDC-M ‘s cabinet members including the Deputy Prime Minsiter Arthur Mutambra and save for Education Minister Sen.David Coltart lost in last year parliamentary elections.
In another development Tsvangirai is set to appoint Nketa MP Seiso Moyo or Bulawayo South MP Eddie Cross as Bulawayo governor while former Victoria falls mayor and Hwange East MP, Tose Sansole and Hwange Central MP Morgan Komichi are said to be jostling to take over as Matabeleland North governor.
Lucia Matibenga former women’s league chairperson and Kuwadzana East MP might land the governor ship of Masvingo.
The issue of governors is still one of the outstanding issues from the Global Political Agreement (GPA) that the three principals have to agree on.
Under the proposals put forward when the three political parties were negotiating the MDC-T was expected to take control of five provinces namely Matabeleland North, Bulawayo, Harare, Manicaland and Masvingo while Zanu PF was expected to take control of the three Mashonaland provinces, East, West and Central and the Midlands province.
The MDC-M was going to take control of Matabeleland South.
Posted by Philip Mangena
on February 23, 2009. Filed under Local News.
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