1/24 While I'm sad I cannot continue to respond to each and all of them, I'm heartened by the deluge of DMs asking for the reason for the crude slurs I get from @nelsonchamisa supporters; which reflect deep-seated hatred as they have also targeted my sister and my late daughter!
2/24 The reason for the slurs I am getting is @nelsonchamisa himself. While he feigns ignorance and appears to be silent amid the slurs, Nelson has in fact used his seeming silence as a cover to fan and fuel the slurs. He has rebuffed all efforts to get him to address the slurs!
3/24 In the circumstances, the only rational option left is for me to transparently and objectively address the reason for the crude #CCC slurs, one way or another; away from @Twitter at an appropriate time, as soon as practically possible. This I shall do, without prejudice!
4/24 Meanwhile, it's a fallacy to assume that the slurs I'm getting from @nelsonchamisa's supporters, which smack of hatred as they also have targeted my friends and my relatives, are because of my criticism of @CCCZimbabwe's structureless setup.
Two reasons expose this fallacy!
5/24 My structures argument is not new.
I argued on 8 April 2018 that "a rally is not a structure".
This was to warn against the misinterpretation of huge crowds at @nelsonchamisa's campain rallies in the July 2018 presidential poll.
I made a similar point on 12 Nov 2021!
6/24 While @nelsonchamisa's supporters have singled me out for their vile slurs, with @EdmundKudzayi and my relatives as collateral damage, others like @DrStephenChan, @Chofamba and in @NewsDayZimbabwe, @Zimindependent & @thestandardzim have also made the structures critique!
7/24 What's telling and reveals hatred is that, while many others have made the argument for the indispensability of structures in #CCC, @nelsonchamisa's base has targeted only me, @EdmundKudzayi and my relatives for its most vile slurs.
The reason for this targeting is Nelson!
8/24 Interestingly, @nelsonchamisa and @EdmundKudzayi are tight Brothers in Christ. They used to hold prayers – just the two of them – at Nelson's Advocates Chambers office. Vakomana vema all-night prayers kuzvikomo muDomboshava.
Given this, are Nelson and Edmund gay partners?
9/24 Given the very close relationship he has with @EdmundKudzayi, it must be said strongly that @nelsonchamisa's silence over the vile gay slurs from his supporters, is proof of his profound moral and leadership bankruptcy.
If Edmund is gay as per the #CCC slurs, so is Nelson!
10/24 I criticise #CCC's lack of structures – as did others – they respond by dragging in and demonising my sister, and my late daughter. More egregious, the @CCCZimbabwe's spokesperson claims it was cowardice of me to run away from soldiers who attacked my home in the 2017 coup!
11/24 While the lie by @nelsonchamisa's cultic @Twitter influencers is that the vile slurs started after my structures critique, the truth is they started well before @CCCZimbabwe's formation. Below is an instructive example, which had Nelson's favour!👇🏿
12/24 When I challenged @nelsonchamisa over the crude slurs in @S_Harudzibw's 3 Sept 2021 tweet, he went mum. I then raised it with @adv_fulcrum who admitted it was wrong; and tried in vain to get Nelson to act on it.
Nelson's stance showed that the slurs reflected his view!
13/24 The nub of @S_Harudzibwi's crude slurs, and @nelsonchamisa's coziness with them, was unmasked by @TomChallenge.
Clearly:
1. Nelson sees himself as the centre on which politics in Zim should pivot.
2. #CCC cultists have irreconcilable issues with Mugabe and some "G40s"!
14/24 On 9 Aug 2021 @glenmpani noted that Zimbabweans seeking change found @nelsonchamisa's MDC-A to be "disorganised, intolerant, immature & unstrategic".
And #CCC has the same MDC-A-like ills, identified by @glenmpani.
Sadly, @nelsonchamisa's MDC-A cult is now his #CCC cult!
15/24 When President Mugabe endorsed @nelsonchamisa in 2018, he did not say he was joining the MDC-A or that he loved Nelson.
He said it was because he could not vote for his tormentors, and there wasn't much to choose from.
It was that simple, as a statement of real politics!
16/24 On my part, I never sought to join MDC, given its treacherous ideology.
In Nov 2021, I told @nelsonchamisa both by phone and in writing, that he was nolonger supportable.
I thus could not seek to join Nelson's no ideology, no values, constitution & no structure #CCC!
17/24 While the intolerance & immaturity of the MDC-A identified by @glenmpani fingered supporters, the elephant in the room that he did not identify was, as it is in #CCC, @nelsonchamisa.
In Africa, the mob utterances of political parties reflect the positions of their leaders!
18/24 It's impossible that political supporters of a beloved political leader, would say or do things in public, including on social media platforms like these streets, that are contrary to the interests of their beloved leader. #CCC's vile slurs drive Nelson's political agenda!
19/24 On the back of vile slurs of his social media supporters, @nelsonchamisa hates ideology, values, a constitution and structures; and hopes to evade accountability to wad off rivals, as he pushes his "God Complex" in his #CCC base.
Now Nelson says he's been chosen by God!
20/24 At the much touted "#YellowSunday" rally on 20 Feb 2022, @nelsonchamisa boasted that he had "deliberately avoided" ideology and values.
That exposed his moral and leadership bankruptcy: one cannot lead a political party or a social movement with no ideology and no values!
21/24 I stopped supporting #CCC after its Zimbabwe Grounds #YellowSunday rally in Feb. I cannot support a political party or a social movement whose ideology & values I don't know or agree with. Political parties are ideologically based, and social movements are driven by values!
22/24 Instructive examples of leaders of social movements in history are Mahatma Gandhi (peace), Martin Luther King Jr (civil rights) and Nelson Mandela (democracy).
With his God Complex, nothing about @nelsonchamisa approximates even a tiny winy fraction of these examples!
23/24 Bereft of ideology, values, a constitution and structures - on the back of his God Complex backed by the pentecostal-like cult politics of his base - on 5/3/22 @nelsonchamisa said he will sign nomination papers for all #CCC's 2023 candidates, numbering some 2,428.
Absurd!
24/24 All told, it is hard to believe that seasoned #CCC constitutional lawyers - such as @BitiTendai, @Welshman_Ncube and @DavidColtart - support @nelsonchamisa's no ideology, no values, no constitution and no structures for #CCC, as a political party or a social movement!
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