Chamisa Allegedly Organizes Fake Congress – Prof Jonathan Moyo

Self-exiled former Zanu PF politburo member, Professor Jonathan Moyo, has alleged that CCC leader Mr. Nelson Chamisa is attempting to convene a fake national congress before the end of November.

Posting on his X handle this Monday afternoon, the academic and politician stated, “STUNG BY THE RECALLS of MPs and Councillors who’ve ceased to be members of the original CCC formed on 22 January 2022 and unveiled on 24 January 2022 – and after he publicly declared that his CCC is not a political party in the traditional or formal legal sense; but is an opaque structureless, positionless, and memberless CCC-‘wapusa wapusa’ movement with no constitution and no officeholders except himself, who gives ‘tasks’ and ‘assignments’ to persons he works with, Nelson Chamisa is now secretly preparing to hold an ‘ambush’ or ‘crush’ [emergency] and essentially fake Congress by the end of November 2023 and he has given Amos Chibaya the ‘task’ and ‘assignment’ to organize it.”

Moyo claimed that the proposed “Convention” would be a fake “elective” Congress as it would lack any meaningful elections.

The concept of the crush “Convention” is allegedly the brainchild of Amos Chibaya, whom Chamisa has previously entrusted with the organization of public meetings like rallies and related interfaces.

“Over the past 10 days or so since the recalls of MPs and Councillors, which the recalled MPs are challenging in the Harare High Court in a case set down to be heard this week on Thursday 2 November, Chibaya has been brainstorming the idea of holding a crush Congress with a few handpicked individuals, like Sesel Zvidzayi, to test its traction and fine-tune it,” Moyo further claimed.

Furthermore, Moyo alleged that in a desperate attempt to establish some semblance of a “structure,” Chibaya informed his selected brainstorming colleagues that the constitution being drafted would only allow for the election of Chamisa as the President or Change Champion in Chief or Leader.

Moyo’s tweet stated, “The constitution being drafted will empower Chamisa – the only leader earmarked for ‘election’ at the planned so-called elective Congress – to unilaterally appoint a seven-member ‘Management Committee,’ which will include what is being branded as a ‘Bureau of Chiefs’ – or something like that – responsible for administration and organizing work, etc.”

In essence, these seven members will function as a Standing Committee under which lower organs will be “empowered” to “elect” lower-level “leaders.”

This aspect is supposedly designed to give the currently constitutionless, structureless, positionless, and memberless CCC Chamisa the appearance, but not the reality, of a “structure” based on a constitution that is currently being drafted for adoption by the planned “Convention” or “elective Congress.”

Chamisa and Chibaya hope that the constitution being drafted, the crush “elective” Congress, and the election of Chamisa as the sole officeholder of CCC Chamisa will serve as a counter to the recalls and the growing calls for a real and legal Congress coming from the traditional MDC-A base, whose National Executive Committee and National Council actually formed CCC in January 2022, triggered by the sitting of the nomination court on 24 January 2024 for the by-elections held on 26 March 2022, which many saw as a “mini general election”.
 
Apparently, a popular petition is now circulating for a properly convened Congress, in terms of the original CCC constitution – recently submitted to Parliament and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission with Sengezo Tshabangu’s initial recall letter as CCC Interim SG – under which CCC was formed in January 2022.
 
Chamisa and Chibaya are working overdrive, and flat out in the hope that they can use their mooted “elective” Congress to thwart the petition in what appears to be a futile exercise against the wind!