EMBATTLED MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai unilaterally appointed two new vice presidents to the presidium in exchange for money to fork hospital bills for his cancer treatment, it has emerged.
A top brass official in the MDC-T who refused to be named revealed that some party members believed that the two appointments were motivated by financial need by Tsvangirai, as he needed money to pay for his hospital bills.
“Morgan Tsvangirai is totally broke and he desperately needs lots of money for his cancer treatment. He has virtually been held hostage by the people who are footing his medical bills,” said the official.
He named those footing Mr Tsvangirai’s hospitals bills as Chalton Hwende, Murisi Zvizvai and MDC-T Masvingo provincial chair James Gumbi and one Takanai Mureyi.
“Morgan Tsvangirai is broke and so he is now being manipulated by sharks that are paying his medical bills,” added the official.
He claimed Mudzuri’s elevation was a smokescreen. “Mudzuri has been elevated in order to placate him and to keep him in check. Otherwise, Morgan does not really like Mudzuri,” claimed the top MDC-T official.
Chamisa lost to Mr Douglas Mwonzora in his bid to land the secretary-general’s post.
He remained influential and his appointment together with that of Mudzuri has also been interpreted as a way of containing growing factionalism by Tsvangirai.
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