By Langton Ncube| Musician and inventor, Daniel Chingoma has indicated that that he will challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the 2018 elections.

Chingoma has already started campaigning in Harare where he is calling himself Zimbabwe’s economic “messiah”.

Chingoma will run under the Zimbabwe Industrial and Technological Revolutionary (ZITER) Party which he formed in 2010.

His political campaign posters since the formation of his party had been exclusively put up in public toilets “because everyone uses the toilet”.

He is the founding director of Taisek Engineering (PVT) Ltd and is known for making a helicopter named the Zimcopter which was barred from flying by the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe.

Chingoma told The Sunday Mail that he was not serious when he formed his political party.

“ I formed that party for fun. I was merely testing the waters. I was not serious and by the way, I never registered the party with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission,” he said.

Chingoma said his wife, Edna, was the only other member of his party and it remains to be seen if Chingoma will seriously run for President.

In 2010, Chingoma and his wife Edna were convicted and sentenced to 18 months in jail for fraud after they failed to drill a borehole for a client who had paid them to do so.