Staff Reporter| President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s special advisor, Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa maintains his claim that “President Mnangagwa wanted to pick some MDC-T members for ministerial posts, but held back after the party’s leader, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai threatened to expel from his party prospective appointees unless the opposition leader was himself given a post in the presidium.”

Yesterday Mr Tsvangirai vehemently denied there were any discussions between the two parties. “Well, the thing is that, the MDC was never approached..and that’s the truth, never approached of any discussion around that..if they decided to abandon whatever they had planned, it has nothing to do with us, okay.”

He said Mutsvangwa was playing at propaganda.

When asked on the possibility of even just mere rumours among his MPs, Mr Tsvangirai also denied saying there was nothing to the effect. “There was no contact, I have never received any contact in regards to the discussion around this issue, so how can he…atanga Mutsvangwa ne nyaya ye propaganda kani?

“There was not even a rumour, there was no rumour, there was no contact, okay?”

https://youtu.be/9C2gaTBMcaQ?t=11m8s

But Mr Mutsvangwa told ZimEye yesterday that there were discussions, a matter Mr Tsvangirai denies saying there were not even rumours to the effect.