Veteran politician Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who died on Monday and was declared a national hero has been described by his former colleagues in Zapu as a sell-out.
In a statement, Tuesday, the Dumiso Dabengwa-led party said:
After independence, Ndlovu remained in the party leadership structures until he was co-opted into the national chairmanship of ZAPU just before the signing of the infamous Unity Accord of 1987 following Zanu PF annihilation of ZAPU and its structures from 1982 to 1987.
ZAPU will always remember Naison Ndlovu as one of the few former ZAPU cadres who felt too comfortable in Zanu PF when ZAPU structures pulled out in 2008/9.
ZAPU is saddened by the fact that a senior member of the party failed to follow what the lower structures demanded, let alone see anything wrong with the so called Unity Accord that practically disadvantaged former ZAPU members who are predominant in Matabeleland.
It is saddening that he did not find time to introspect and interrogate his position at the face of blatant marginalization, under the unity accord, of the constituency that made him the man he is regarded today, that is ZAPU
Ndlovu was the first black mayor of Bulawayo, as well as a former Speaker of Parliament.
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