Zanu PF has shut the door to anyone who wants to contest for the party presidency against its current leader Emmerson Mnangagwa by hinting that there will not be any elective meeting ahead of the 2023 harmonised general elections.
Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday during the weekend, acting Zanu PF spokesperson Mike Bimha said the matter of who leads the party going into 2023 had been settled at its recent annual conference in Bindura, where Mnangagwa was endorsed by all provinces.
“Again, as I said, at the moment the party is focusing on the restructuring exercise and once we are through, we go into the pending elections for the National Assembly and local government. The President has already indicated when these will be held. So, that is our focus.
“In any case, the biggest decision to be made at the congress is the choice of the party leader and there are no two ways for us now because at the conference we endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the sole candidate for the 2023 elections,” Bimha said.
“That is the most important decision that the congress has to come up with and it’s already made.”
Zanu PF is set to hold its congress in 2022. Bimha said the congress will not focus on the election of the top brass leaders but deal with other party issues.
“It cannot be true because there are also other decisions and activities that take place. Choosing leadership is only one of the activities at congress, but there are also others.
“But we are saying Zanu PF has endorsed the president as the party’s sole candidate and no one can say why you have decided to do that.
“It is what we want, an expression of our desire. So, let it be,” Bimha further said.
This comes at a time when reports of factionalism are rocking the ruling party. Last month, Zanu PF resolved to suspend its provincial elections amid reports they had threatened to further tear the party apart.
The provincial election campaigns were marred by factionalism, smear campaigns and were threatening to turn bloody while also exposing deep-rooted factionalism in the party.
The factional lines were allegedly drawn between Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga who is accused of working hard to succeed the Zanu PF leader. Nehanda Radio
That sounds good for another coup
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Bright Muzambwa 🤭😅🇿🇼
Moyitirana hutororo mega democracy part here
President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is a genuine leader not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus, Working hard in silence and let success make the noise, And when best leader’s work done ☑️ The People say, we did it ourselves #EDMnangagwaTheGameChanger
Fortune Zihura mabasa akanaka anotaura EGA plus competition hairambidzwe its health stop that bootlicking politics
Fortune Zihura kana muchiti game changer mukurevei apa,can you explain tinzwisise nekuti isu vanhu tisu tinofanirwa kutaura kuti ed arikugona,and nyika yese ingadai ichimupembedza sezvirikuitwa weku zambia,siyanai nechigandanga icho hazviunze chikafu munyika life yakaomera munhu wese now kunze kwenyu imi murikuona kugona kwa ed.
Game changer? Have he not been in that parliament and Zanu since 1980 what have he done besides killing innocent citizens
Fortune Zihura bootlicking🤣🤣🤣🙌
What is he afraid of
Fortune Zihura who voted for him to be where he is and did he follow the constitution???.. Hakuzi kudhara vanhu pavaive vakavharika meso you now exposing yourselves what kind of a party yamuri.. Uyu ED wenyu hapana chozikanwa plus iwee unotevera kwaenda mhepo nekuda mafufu that’s what you used to say pana Bob
Fortune Zihura Bootlicking yako inotyisa
Best leader what are you referring to if i may ask? maybe looting, killing, brutality and wasting taxpayer’s money . No legitimate leader is afraid of democracy and practising it but dictators are
You say nobody is above the law or constitution but you don’t follow
Fortune Zihura idiot that was raised in insanity speaks exactly like you
Fortune Zihura off topic . Enda unomama ugodzoka. Where Democracy is being practiced,It doesn’t matter you’re good or not . Your credit must be challenged by the number of votes you will gt after elections. Zimbabwe is being said to be a democratic country led by the constitution of Zimbabwe and by the constitution of the party ZANU PF . This constitution’s must not be breached to the favour of one. Kwete matuzvi amukutaura akoma . Endai munomama mozodzoka
I don’t have much to say mukuru but muri chisuri miri wese
Good. Hapana munhu pagedi. Bring it on,no rigging this time,we’ll meet at the ballot box.
Good 👍 . That gives us a chance to see another Coup sooner than we expected
The essence of democracy is to allow others to contest if they no longer like ED , so those who dont like him vokuvarira mukati , there is no democracy in your party
Ndomugariro no one would contest Mugabe until the coup d’etat that’s ZANU PF all followers are puppets
Dictatorship
Another Mugabe
History is now repeating itself chenjerai another coup vakuru will be watching tiri kumaterrace zvedu
Zanu pf ine utsinye. Iri kuda kuti harahwa iyi igodyiwa maelections muna2023. Igonyadziswa.🖐️🖐️🖐️
Chii chinonzi Zanu
Delicious news. Dzotungana dzemudanga
Mbimbindoga idzi wotonzwa mwana wa1980 achiti ED has my hope shame madzakutsaku akuda kukweshwa nhova akura kudai
Ndezve ikoko nemadununu vana Chiwenga vanongoitiswa
That’s good,let them fight while Nero pindaringi muoffice.
So the only person who had a right to contest him recently died? How convenient
Kkkkkkk kutonga kwaro
Then achabviswa nembama sa Thokozani Khupe 😂😂😂
Wanted to say something but thought of Napoleon – ” Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.”
Charles Tafadzwa Chananda Spot on
Charles Tafadzwa Chananda Bonapat
These thugs they will never learn from history – Mugabe ERA
Johnson Zivuku What they did to Mugabe that’s what’s happening to them now
Kuzanu kunezvindomundomu
Bob once closed the doors to his competitors and the next thing push came to shove
Banana 🍌 republic
Good pill for them Zanuians