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Cde Goche

Harare Bureau
UNDER-fire Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Nicholas Goche has been accused of pushing for regime                              change by working with MDC-T in the  run up to last year’s harmonised elections that were convincingly won by President Mugabe and Zanu-PF.

In an interview on the sidelines of the crunch provincial elections directorate meeting in Bindura on Monday, Mashonaland Central provincial youth chairman, Cde Godfrey Tsenengamu said Cde Goche worked tirelessly with the MDC-T to convince people to abandon Zanu-PF.

“Goche wanted to prolong the government of national unity,” said Cde Tsenengamu. “He worked with MDC-T in a bid to ensure that the opposition wins the elections.

“He was misleading people here telling them that MDC-T and Zanu-PF had merged to form a single party and pleaded with them to treat Tsvangirai as one of their leaders.”

Cde Tsenengamu said Cde Goche and his team were plotting to unseat President Mugabe as the first secretary of the party and replace him with Vice-President Joice Mujuru.

He said the youths were exposing Cde Goche’s machinations in the province to protect the President and his family against the rogue elements in party.

“President Mugabe is the face and symbol of the revolution,” said Cde Tsenengamu. “All these people serving as ministers, Politburo members, MPs are doing so at his pleasure, unfortunately these guys seem to have forgotten who is the principal by making nefarious manoeuvres to defy the President.

“They’re usurping his powers and undermining his authority as they plot to unseat him at the party’s congress and replace him with VP Mujuru.

“So, we thought before they carry out the threat we should remind them that we’re totally behind the President for he has done his best to make us a progressive people through policies, among them education for all, land reform, indigenisation and economic empowerment.

“We aren’t going to give room for elections at congress. We want the President to be allowed to use his powers to appoint his team.”

Cde Tsenengamu said VP Mujuru displayed a propensity of defiance when she refused to pay heed to growing calls that she resigns.

“She must resign. She has worked with President Mugabe for many years and he knows her. If the President has faith in her, he can still  appoint her. No one can stop him from doing so,” he said.