The MDC is likely to hold its elective Congress in October after a national standing committee meeting held on Wednesday could not find common ground on a date.
Newsday sources who attended the meeting claimed that MDC president Nelson Chamisa clashed with party secretary general Douglas Mwonzora after the latter refused to suggest a date for the much-awaited Congress. Said the sources:
It was a heated meeting. Chamisa asked everyone to give a date on which the Congress should be held, but Mwonzora refused probably feeling he had been waylaid. Chamisa probably wanted to gauge his adversaries’ preparedness and was angered by Mwonzora’s response.
He (Chamisa) was not amused. He accused Mwonzora of ‘trying to be clever and half’. Chamisa’s supporters in the meeting preferred August while others want it in October. In the end, there was no consensus and Chamisa said he would have the final
say.