By Paul Nyathi| It has finally somewhat emerged at the just ended ZANU PF Primary Elections why the party was recording serial numbers of voter registration slips from members at cell level.

Only those who submitted their voter registration slips were captured in the party voters roll for the primary elections.

Thousands of potential voters were turned away from voting at the primary elections as their names were not on the voters roll because they did not submit their voter registration slips to cell leaders.

Party supporters in Bulawayo who spoke to ZimEye.com said that they were turned away in numbers because they had not submitted their voter registration slips to the party authorities.

The members who spoke to ZimEye said that they feel robbed by named party officials who discouraged them from submitting the registration slips when they knew that they were benefiting their candidates.

“We did not cast our votes because we adhered to calls by some clever people within the party who accelerated the call not to submit the slips when they knew very well that it was in favour of their candidates,” said Clifford Moyo from Luveve Constituency.

“People who coordinated Garikai Zonde’s (winning castigate in Luveve) campaign spent sleepless nights collecting and recording the registration slips well knowing that they were rigging the voters roll and didn’t give us that information,” said the angry ZANU PF member.

Moyo further indicated that the entire elections were the worst the party ever held.

“Mugabe (Former President Robert) was far much better than what we saw in this election,” he said. “Even if he was rigging elections, his rigging was smart we would realise it years later unlike this one which was very obvious that a grade 1 child could also see. The whole election process was a big joke, these candidates will lose to the position dismally because they are not the people’s choice,” he added.

Complaints on the chaotic election are being raised by the ZANU PF members throughout the country where, however, seemingly rival G40 members emerged victorious over President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Lacoste faction members.

Mnangagwa praised the election process and declared it free and fair claiming that the hiccups experienced in the process were mere teething problems in the introduction of a “new voting system.”

The party’s election commission is yet to announce the final authenticated results from the elections forty eight hours after the scheduled election period.