AILING MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has expressed his growing impatience at “a gruesome media” which he says has continued to cast him as a dying man.
The former prime minister was speaking through spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka on Monday.
Tsvangirai, who is battling cancer of the colon, was last Thursday flown to South Africa for treatment after his fragile condition had reportedly deteriorated.
His illness has rattled the opposition with his lieutenants reportedly firming up for his job.
Unconfirmed media reports said Monday that the MDC-T leader’s chronic illness has triggered fierce jostling for power within his party with some lobbying for him to step down on health grounds and hand over power to youthful deputy, Nelson Chamisa.
Tsvangirai’s ailment is also feared could destabilise an anti-Zanu PF coalition among the country’s mainstream parties that have thrown their support behind his presidential candidature.
But in attempts to wade off fears around his recovery prospects and in clear signs he was keen on keeping his job, a piqued Tsvangirai said through his spokesperson on Monday that his condition was stable.
“President Tsvangirai is responding well to routine medical procedure in South Africa and he has laughed off gruesome press reports about his condition,” said Tamborinyoka, who earlier had described the media reports around his boss’s poor health as ‘morbid