"I am the only one who can shut up Mugabe," says Mutambara

Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara told a visiting European Union delegation in September last year that he must not be excluded from any discussions because he was the only one who could shut up President Robert Mugabe. Everyone else is afraid of him.

Mutambara leads the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change which has only three cabinet ministers and 10 seats in the lower house.But he impressed one of the European Union delegates as "very sharp, young, engaging, and very, very dangerous".According to one of the cables released by WikiLeaks, Mutambara was very livid that the United States had met Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai but not him. One of the delegates said Mutambara's message to them was that: "You have to count me in. If you do not include me, I can wreck this."

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