Terrence Mawawa, Masvingo | President Mugabe’s woes have worsened as more war veterans in the ruling Zanu PF party sympathetic to the ousted Chris Mutsvangwa -led executive met at a secluded venue in Masvingo Province, where they endorsed Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the legitimate Zanu PF leader, to replace President Robert Mugabe, ZimEye can exclusively reveal.
The war veterans caused a storm in Zanu PF weeks ago when they published a communique which demanded Mugabe to step down. They told him in writing that they would not campaign for him in future elections and went further to boldly declare Mnangagwa as their preferred heir to the throne.
Although Mutsvangwa was expelled from the party, he still commands support among the former freedom fighters. War veterans led by Mutsvangwa, Douglas Mahiya and Victor Matemadanda have been pushing for Mnangagwa’s ascendancy at the expense of his long time boss President Robert Mugabe.
The war veterans have been sharply divided over Mutsvangwa’s dismissal and the faction aligned to the former war veterans minister met near Roy Business centre, 40 km from the city of Masvingo last week and endorsed Mnangagwa as their presidential candidate for 2018. They also concurred President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace must vacate the State House.
A war veteran who attended the meeting told ZimEye.com Mugabe would not win the elections without the former liberation fighters’ assistance. “Mugabe desperately needs the war veterans but we no longer have confidence in him. So we have resolved to back Mnangagwa,” said the war veteran. However, Masvingo provincial war veterans chairman Tendeukai Chinooneka described the meeting as a non-event. “The provincial leadership was not notified and I do not even know who was there so we are not even worried about the so called meeting,” said Chinooneka.
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Stupidity you Shona Hater to hell idoit.SHONAS are going to rule you till Jesus comes nonsense
That is typical Guky party double talk. They said the same about the targeted sanctions yet today, that’s all we hear, “illegal sanctions” have destroyed the economy.
This is what the typical Shona does and tomorrow they will be once again crying for national unity to help them dispose of their self created dictators; their self created rubbish. These people have no brains nor morals. Voting for a clear thug, a dictator, a tribalist – surely what do you say about such people? They have done it with Mugabe; they have done it with Tswangirayi. Never expect anything better!!
Disillusioned, how can something that happened be a non event.