National People`s Party (NPP) Press Statement- Harare, Zimbabwe.
We have learnt that a lot of people are concerned why some of our leaders did not attend the NERA demonstration today. I am sure Zimbabweans are aware that we have national elections to elect a substantive leadership for our party in two days time, a very important exercise in our democratic journey to ensure we effect the change of regime we envisage in 2018. Our people, however attended the demonstration in their numbers and we really appreciate the spirit of togetherness and the unity of purpose they showed.
Those that believe the absence of particular individuals among our leaders is a snub of NERA make a grave mistake of thinking a political party equals it`s leader and therefore should always be represented by it`s President. It holds sway in a dictatorship not in a party like ours. There are parties where nothing happens in the absence of the President and it is that culture, entrenched in the political psyche of many Zimbabweans, that we seek to deconstruct as NPP.
Our Vice Chairperson for Harare Province, Reverend George Chaparika, chaired the last preparatory meeting for the demonstration yesterday (March 21 2017) and if this isn’t participation at the highest level, then nothing can ever be.
Our people, the most important stakeholders in our organisation, took part in the demonstration and our own youth wing, through our able youth leader, Farayi Marvellous Kuvheya, mobilised our supporters to participate in the demonstration and issued out a statement distancing our party from disinformative statements insinuating that we were not participating in the demonstration. We were ably represented by party supporters while our leadership was busy preparing for our internal party elections on Saturday March 25, 2017.
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