Farai Dziva|The MDC-Alliance has described the defection of six Gwanda councillors to the Thokozani Khupe political formation as a non-event.

Sesil Zvidzai, the MDC Alliance secretary for local government and rural development, quoted by NewsDay, said the councillors were elected using the MDC Alliance card and by defecting to Khupe they had betrayed the electorate:

“We need a new Zimbabwe where people are free to speak, respect the rule of law and people’s free choices.

The MDC Alliance councillors were elected by MDC Alliance members and supporters.

The people of Gwanda are behind the MDC Alliance, and will continue to speak against the absurdities of rulings made by captured courts.

How on earth can MDC-T inherit councillors from the MDC Alliance?

The future will judge the courts, captured institutions and the captors very harshly.

The March to a new Zimbabwe, a Zimbabwe of opportunity and freedom is in the near horizon.”