Mr Trevor Ncube uses a parachute to escape from the Mnangagwa piloted plane

Alpha Media Holdings chairman Trevor Ncube has publicly admitted that he was naive and wrong to join the “give him a chance brigade” when President Emmerson Mnangagwa became the country’s leader on the back of the November 2017 military coup.

Ncube said he resigned from the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) after realising that the coup project won’t end well. He said:

I was one of those people who stood up and said give Emmerson Mnangagwa a chance and how wrong I was! But why did I say that?

I said that because this man has sat in the same room with Robert Mugabe, he has seen what Robert Mugabe did in the country.

Maybe, he is really interested in turning things around… This man played a role as far as Gukurahundi is concerned, the massacre of over 20 000 people in Matabeleland.

Maybe, it’s time for him to make amends for that. So I was generous in my spirit as a God-fearing man that this man was about to do a turnaround. Again was I disappointed!

I was actually approached and I agreed to serve in the presidential advisory council, so I sat at close range with the President advising him on a number of issues but I have since retired, stepped down because I can see this thing is not going to end well.

The lesson that we have gotten, all of us, is that anyone who embarks on a coup does not usually do so because they want to promote democracy, widen economic prosperity and so forth.

The people that launched the coup in Zimbabwe were interested in protecting their small personal interests, ethnic interests, business interests and economic interests.

MIXED REACTIONS TO TREVOR NUCBE’S EXIT:

[3/20, 5:06 PM] +263 77 369 3033: We don’t mind him he has been an enemy , ED tried to work with his critics but still they are showing their evil designs.

Most of ED’s advisors are the critics of ZANU PF , see how ED is trying to reach out to everyone but some people can never repent
[3/20, 5:07 PM] +27 73 453 3075: Exactly to jump the ship is not wise
[3/20, 5:15 PM] +263 78 300 5473: How could he be an advisor to anyone except Wamba since his papers are against anyone except that young man?
Was ED really serious?
I would not have trusted that man.
[3/20, 5:42 PM] +27 73 671 7883: It’s best to bring your enemies closer to you…so in a way he was smart in that way…i think so…
[3/20, 5:44 PM] +263 78 300 5473: But usually such enemies advise you to fall.
[3/20, 5:50 PM] +27 73 671 7883: They do yes…bt one has to be smart about it …