By Paul Nyathi|Highly pompous Minister of Provincial Affairs for Matabeleland South, Abednico Ncube joins the gang of ZANU PF heavyweights that lost in the weekend ZANU PF primary elections.

Sources with the party in Gwanda indicate that still to be proclaimed results are that Ncube lost the election to represent the ruling party in the Gwanda South constituency.

He was kicked out by popular radio personality Omphile Marupi who will now contest against the MDC Alliance coalition candidate in the elections set for July or August.

Ncube has generally been unpopular with the people of Gwanda since he was appointed Minister on allegations that he turned too pompous.

There was wild jubilation in Gwanda in October last year when Ncube lost his ministerial post in a cabinet reshuffle by former President Robert Mugabe before he was brought back by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in November.