so perhaps you might be too divisive a figure to be a potential candidate to stand against robert mugabehat assessment were true, it will follow that when we agree on the candidate, it will not be a person whom the collective leadership regards as divisive. i do not accept that assessment but really, this is not about me, it is about us coming with a candidate that has the potential and the capacity to rally the people, to motivate the people to defeat the mugabe regime. i would rather we not personalise it and i would rather we do not pre—empt the conversations that are taking place. all i know is that we, in selecting a candidate to lead that coalition, we must choose a person, one, as you say, who will be able to unify all of us and two, a person who has sufficient support at the grassroots level to rally as many voters to our side as possible, a person that we will be able to work with post—victory to deliver change. you said you are working on a strategy and frankly, the problems besetting zimbabwe are huge. two—thirds of people in poverty, a quarter of the population currently need