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Opposition parties in Nigeria have called for the presidential election to be scrapped, describing it as a sham. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party said results had been manipulated, and they wanted a new election to be organised.
Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume said he was recalled as Ward 17 councillor for trying to stop looting at the Harare City Council amid recent “corrupt” deals implicating Local Government Minister July Moyo and President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s family ally Delish Nguwaya.
The decision by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to withdraw the notice of by-election vacancies for six National Assembly constituencies that were held by People’s Democratic Party (PDP) members, including the party’s former president Tendai Biti are meant to weaken the newly launched opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), UK based law expert Alex Magaisa has argued.
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has bounced back in Parliament after the High Court ruled that Benjamin Rukanda, the man who recalled the former finance minister, was not a member of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) led by Lucia Matibenga on Wednesday claimed it had recalled Harare East legislator Tendai Biti among four other MPs. Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda confirmed receiving the letter.
Self-proclaimed People’s Democratic Party (PDP) official Benjamin Rukanda has resurfaced with a new demand for the High Court to revisit its decision of barring his attempt to recall Harare mayor Jacob Mafume and two other councillors.
The High Court has blocked the Minister of Local Government, July Moyo from recalling Harare Mayor Councillor Jacob Mafume and ordered the reinstatement of two councillors.
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa faces a delicate balancing act of making critical appointments to serve in his top party decision-making body, the national standing committee, amid jostling and lobbying by mainly those who lost at the elective congress held in Gweru last month.
An opposition candidate in Nigeria’s upcoming elections has accused the government of freezing his bank account, claims that anti-corruption bodies deny.
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has reprimanded its councillor who attended the swearing in ceremony of Bulawayo councillors in a suspected drunken stupor and engaged in a brawl with Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists.