THE MDC-T leadership was yesterday forced to cancel a scheduled Press briefing at the party headquarters after the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance challenged a court order granting interim secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora repossession of Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (MRT) House. BY BLESSED MHLANGA/MOSES MATENGA/DESMOND CHINGARANDE MDC-T youths on Sunday took possession of the building demanding dialogue from the warring factions to iron out their differences, which are threatening the country’s main opposition party. The building has since June been under the control of MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe, who was reinstated as party interim leader by a Supreme Court ruling in March in the party’s succession wars. Her faction took over the building with the assistance of heavily armed police and the army. But there have been allegations in the Khupe camp that Mwonzora had personalised the processes, shutting out senior members in his faction. Mwonzora on Monday said the MDC-T would repossess the building that same day from the youths led by Paul Gorekore, the MDC-T chief security officer and Harare provincial youth chairperson. He secured a spoliation order to have the youths evicted, citing MDC Alliance, Chamisa, Gorekore, Happymore Chidziva, Denford Ngadziore and Police Officer Commanding Harare province as respondents in his application. Mwonzora was yesterday supposed to address a Press conference at the MRT House in the company of acting party national chairman Morgen Komichi and interim spokesperson Khalipani Phugeni. But after Chamisa challenged the spoliation order, only Phugeni showed up and was advised against getting inside the building by his aides and called Mwonzora, who advised him against entry as he felt that would invalidate his claim to the court that he had been evicted from the building. It also emerged that Khupe was one of the leaders who were supposed to attend the Press conference, but was in no show. Phugeni decided against getting inside the MRT House despite being granted access and assured of his safety by Gorekore and the party organising secretary, Abedinigo Bhebhe. “I was ready to go into Harvest House, I had been assured of my safety and had spoken to Bhebhe and Gorekore, but the secretary-general told me he would address the Press and my security also said I should not get in,” he said. Insiders said had Phugeni addressed the Press conference from inside Harvest House, then the court application by Mwonzora would have fallen flat on its face. “We had prepared everything for our leaders to come in and they refused. Not that we were up to something or we were rude or anything,” Gorekore said. “We have our genuine issues as youths because we are seeing our leaders are now enjoying power and money over the people’s interests. He added: “We are not rude, but we have a clear position that our leaders should sit down. We don’t want people to suffer anymore. We are faced with by-elections and we can’t allow divisions that benefit Zanu PF. As Harare province, we suffered many recalls and now