OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has assured his followers that he is still in charge of the main opposition political party in Zimbabwe, and dismissed what MDC-T leaders Thokozani Khupe, Morgen Komichi and Douglas Mwonzora are doing as sideshows whose purpose was to create chaos. BY BLESSED MHLANGA Chamisa said the MDC-T was the past that was ditched by its late founding president Morgan Tsvangirai when he decided to move on and join hands with former secretary-generals Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube. “Understand this thing, MDC Alliance is a separate political party from the MDC-T, you can go to court and go visit sangomas, then go to the dead, try and speak to the late president Tsvangirai, that will not change that the MDC Alliance is a party left by Tsvangirai when he made a decision to move from MDC-T to unite the party and go back to the 2000 status. Don’t come pretending as if you want to build the legacy of Tsvangirai when you are actually destroying it,” he said during a televised rally in Harare yesterday. Chamisa said regardless of the court battles that had left him locked out of party headquarters, without control of legislators, councillors and facing the possibility of being barred from using the MDC name, he remained in charge and in sync with the desires and aspirations of party supporters. “Tsvangirai left me in charge, and I am in control, there is nothing you are going to do to change it, you can try by all means, but you won’t succeed. All that is happening — that Mwonzora is running around claiming that he is the secretary-general — is child’s play. You can’t continue being the SG when your term of office expired in October 2019 without going back to the membership,” he said. The embattled political leader, who was flanked by his deputy Biti and deputy chairperson Job Sikhala, said Zimbabweans should be wary of how Mwonzora and Khupe had all of a sudden become darlings of Zanu PF in a fight against progressive and democratic forces. “If you are a political leader, when you go and seek an enemy so that you fight your family, that’s your end. Never go to the enemy to fight your family, once the enemy finishes with your family it will come after you,” he said. Khupe and Mwonzora have been accused of dalliance with Zanu PF and had military and police assistance to seize MRT House. Chamisa hinted that the MDC Alliance could soon be ditching the party name, saying what mattered most was not the name. “Some are afraid that we will lose the name MDC Alliance, the name has no significance, what is important is your agenda as Zimbabweans, and that is what we are going to be delivering, we have a strategy. We are already facing the future, we are already building livelihoods, we are gathering people and strengthening the party. Don’t be shaken, be comfortable the ship is under control. Thank God I am the captain. Thank God I am in good shape, thank God I am seeing clearly and the vision is very clear of where we are going,” he said. Turning to the current economic crisis, Chamisa said the tim