By A Correspondent| Former Kwekwe legislator Blessing Chebundo says his decision to cross the floor to the ruling Zanu PF came after some soul searching and a realisation that opposition politics was retrogressive.

Chebundo was speaking at a Zanu-PF meeting in Kwekwe where another group of 500 former MDC members reportedly followed him to the ruling party.

“In February this year, I had what is called soul searching. This was after taking stock of what was happening in opposition politics.

“I met with my sister Timveous and we decided to look for solutions and joining Zanu-PF was part of the solution.”

“MDC as an opposition party is now 21 years old but we realised we were not going anywhere in the opposition.

“When we formed MDC, we were still in the first Republic. For the past 3 years in the second Republic, we asked ourselves with Timveous what the end game will be if we continued with confrontational politics.

“For the past 3 years since President Mnangagwa has been in power, there has been noticeable change. We have seen maturity and wisdom in the leadership of the country,” he said.

“I have moved from MDC to Zanu-PF in search for solutions. I want to be part of the solutions not the problem.

“We discovered that there is need to be part of the solution and not continue as part of the problem,” he said.

“Zimbabwe will continue to have problems; it will not have a good future if we continue to have confrontational politics.

“There is need for boldness in Zimbabwe, there is need to remove pride in our politics, there is need to remove a mentality of saying I sold out when you join progressive forces,” he said.

Chebundo was adamant he did not sell out.

“There is nothing to sell out. I did not sell out. We have to put Zimbabwe first. This is history being made. This is not a mean number to have 500 people willing to join Zanu-PF, to beef up Zimbabwe solutions,” he said.