Source: MDC, Majome in talks – DailyNews Live
Blessings Mashaya 22 May 2018
HARARE – The MDC leadership has scrambled to save its relations with one
of its long-serving MPs, Jessie Majome, who last week announced she would
stand as an independent candidate in the forthcoming elections after
citing manipulated party guidelines in choosing candidates for its primary
elections.
Yesterday, Majome who insisted her decision to run as an independent
candidate for Harare West constituency did not mean she was quitting the
MDC, met the party’s president Nelson Chamisa to try and resolve the
problem.
Majome told the Daily News that she had been told that MDC national
chairperson Morgen Komichi had been tasked to handle the issue.
“I had a meeting with him (Chamisa); he agreed that the party will address
the gross irregularities that caused me to withdraw. I am encouraged that
the party leadership engaged me,” Majome said.
She, however, expressed shock that Chamisa had not received a letter of
complaint she had penned to the MDC leadership highlighting the
irregularities.
“He said he did not see my letter which I wrote complaining about
irregularities even …Komichi said he did not receive the letter but I
delivered the letter to the secretary-general, this issue disappointed me
and I was surprised by this.
“I am willing to listen to the party. I really care about this party. The
president told me that my issue is now being handled by… Komichi,” said
Majome.
Komichi, who is in charge of the MDC internal elections, yesterday said he
was scheduled to meet Majome today.
“We are engaging her (Majome). We are making progress on the issue; we are
making effort to try and mend a relationship that has gone sour. I am
going to meet her on behalf of the party,” said Komichi.
However, Majome complained that the MDC is taking time to address
irregularities in its selection of candidates.
“There was chaos in Harare West over the weekend. There was violence and
it’s so sad, the party must address this issue before it is too late,”
Majome warned.
Majome recently announced that she was withdrawing from the MDC primary
race where she was set to lock horns with microbiologist and former
student leader Joana Mamombe.
The veteran lawyer and former Women’s Affairs deputy minister in the
short-lived inclusive government, had served Harare West for 10 years on
an MDC ticket, and is widely respected for the decent work and engagement
with residents in the constituency.
Her sudden withdrawal from the party primaries triggered outrage from the
Harare Westerners, as the residents call themselves, who suspect their
adored MP was being set up for defeat by the leadership’s preferred
candidate, Mamombe.
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