HARARE – The MDC threatened on Sunday that it would torpedo President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule before the next elections in 2023.
The opposition party’s deputy chairman Job Sikhala said the Zanu PF leader would be “overthrown”, blaming him for causing widespread suffering and waging violence against opponents.
“When it comes to freeing this country, we are a committed leadership that will give Zanu PF headaches,” Sikhala told an MDC rally in Bikita, Masvingo, last Saturday.
“(Amos) Chibaya (MDC organising secretary) was not lying or joking. The war and the fight, we’re going to take to the doorsteps of Emmerson Mnangagwa (sic). We’re going to overthrow him before 2023. That’s not a joke.
“We can’t have a government that keeps intimidating citizens in their homes.”
The MDC’s national executive meets next week to map out strategies of how channel growing public anger into its plan to end Mnangagwa’s rule, which the party maintains is illegitimate following disputed elections last year.
Mnangagwa came to power on the back of a military coup in 2017.
