Thread by @ProfJNMoyo

#KudosZimLive
1/17 It's outrageous & unfortunate that some quarters are alleging, with no proof, that @zimlive got the Mohadi audios from a #ZanuPF faction linked to the #CIO or #MID. The allegation is aimed at discrediting @zimlive. It's a bizarre case of shooting the messenger!

2/17 The bizarre claim is that, so as not to be duped by a ZanuPF faction as happened in the 2017 coup, the opposition shouldn't be excited about @zimlive's historic exposé of Mohadi's salacious phone-chats with women, one married, which led to his resignation as Vice President!

3/17 The claim is bizarre not only because its peddlers purport to know @zimlive's sources of the Mohadi audios, but also because they seek to appropriate and own @zimlive; as part of their political agenda, whatever that agenda is, in Zim's current toxic & treacherous politics!

4/17 For the record, the opposition shot itself in the foot in the Nov 2017 coup by taking to the streets to support a ZanuPF faction, and taking the military coup as "the coolest" in the world; when it should have stayed in the streets after Mugabe's ouster, to resist the coup!

5/17 Just because the opposition messed up in 2017; and just because those who messed up are still unable to openly & robustly denounce the coup, partly because they're still embedded to the coup factions, does not mean the media should not do its job to expose ANY coup faction!

6/17 With Mohadi's resignation, whether @zimlive's exposé advantages/disadvantages ANY ZanuPF faction is neither here nor there. Like the Watergate exposé by @realBobWoodward & @carlbernstein that led to Nixon's resignation; @Mathuthu & @zimlive have done their media job. Kudos!

7/17 But again, who gave @zimlive Mohadi's salacious phone-chats? It could be a jilted Mohadi-lover, a hacker, CIO, MID or whoever. Only @Mathuthu & @zimlive, who also exposed Draxgate, know & s61(2) of the Constitution protects the confidentiality of their sources. End of story!

#MadhukuStrategy
8/17 @NewZimbabweCom quotes @ProfMadhuku, of #ZanuPF's POLAD, falsely claiming that it was wrong for former VP Mohadi to cite s96(2) of the Constitution when he resigned & that instead, he should have cited the Sixth Schedule or nothing!

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9/17 On p.2 of his resignation statement former Vice President Mohadi, presumably on the advice of the Attorney General, wrote: "I am stepping down as Vice President of Zimbabwe in terms of Section 96(2) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe (No. 20) Act, 2013 with immediate effect"!

10/17 Madhuku claims that Mohadi should have resigned in terms of the Sixth Schedule (para14) of the Constitution. But nothing there is on resignations. The Sixth Schedule suspends only ss 92 & 101 of the Constitution; on running mates & succession but not s96(2) on resignations!

11/17 Provisions of the Constitution apply in every situation, unless they've been specifically suspended. On resignation in the Presidency, the relevant parts are s96(1) for the President & s96(2) for the Vice Presidents, as read with s341. Mugabe "resigned" in terms of s96(1)!

12/17 It is disappointing that @ProfMadhuku is now a POLAD lawyer, in place of the CONSTITUTIONAL lawyer, that he once was. His claim that s96(2) of the Constitution cited by Mohadi is wrong because it was suspended by the Sixth Schedule is false and opportunistically outrageous!

13/17 So @ProfMadhuku's claim that Mohadi was wrong to cite s96(2) of the Constitution is to save President Mnangagwa who, according to Deputy Chief Secretary Charamba, received Mohadi's resignation notice LAST WEEK but FAILED to notify the public as REQUIRED by the Constitution!

#MnangagwaAbandonsUnityAccord
14/17 In his resignation statement, Mohadi said, "I am stepping down as Vice President of the Republic of Zimbabwe". He didn't resign as ZanuPF's Second Secretary & Vice President. As the party's politburo meets today, he remains one of its two VPs!

15/17 Will Mohadi resign as ZanuPF's Second Secretary & Vice President today? Barring some last ditch pragmatism on Mnangagwa's part, he won't. Mnangagwa wants Mohadi to remain in his party position and thus to be the most senior party leader at ShakeShake Building on Rotten Row!

16/17 Mnangagwa's securocrats believe that Mohadi's salacious phone-chats were leaked by State House enemies whose real target is Mnangagwa himself & hence they want Mohadi to remain as ZanuPF's Second Secretary & Vice President at Party HQ; to weather the storm, and fight back!

17/17 For Mohadi to remain as Second Secretary & Vice President of #ZanuPF, it would mean that Zim would have one Vice President in govt. While this would not violate the country's Constitution, it would violate #ZanuPF's constitution in general & the Unity Accord in particular!