By Paul Nyathi|In a shock revelation, the opposition National Patriotic Front has revealed that it will provide the Deputy President in a Nelson Chamisa led government after the July 30 elections if the Chamisa led MDC Alliance wins the elections.
In an interview with Voice of America’s Studio Seven on Friday, NPF women’s league chairperson Mrs Sarah Mahoka indicated that the former President Robert Mugabe backed political formation has decided to support Mr Chamisa in return for the Vice President’s post.
“Bato redu arikuritungamirira izvozvi iyezvino hatina president kuNPF. President wedu isusu ndi (Nelson) Chamisa. Chamisa ndiye achapinda pahupresident, isusu tinotora hudeputy,” said Mrs Mahoka.
“Isusu takatobatana neAlliance because tinoda kubvisa junta yakabvisa baba vaMugabe, vachiti baba vaMugabe vakura,” she added.
State owned Sunday Mail newspaper also reports that the party Spokesperson Jealous Mawarire confirmed the development in a seperate interview saying the senior party member was speaking from an “informed position”.
“Cde Sarah Mahoka is a senior member of the party and she was speaking from an informed position. She was very accurate in her statement because it is a fact that our party is supporting Mr Nelson Chamisa to be President. That is definite,” said Mr Mawarire.
“She was also talking about the negotiations that we are having with the MDC Alliance where we have submitted our request that one of our members should be the Vice President.”
He was, however, evasive on who was likely to assume the envisaged Vice President’s post.
“The party will choose the person. We have our own mechanisms as a party to choose the candidate. The Vice President will come from the people who support our party,” he is quoted by the weekly state publication.
Mawarire however dispelled the perception that the probable person was former first lady Grace Mugabe.
“I cannot pre-empt the name of that candidate. As it stands, the former First Lady is not an active member of NPF and she is not in the running. . .” he said.
ZimEye.com has not been able to get a comment from the MDC Alliance though The Sunday Mail quotes Chamisa’ spokesperson Dr Nkululeko Sibanda.
“We embrace anyone who wants to campaign for president Chamisa. The truth of the matter is that all those who are supporting Mr Chamisa are running with the winning horse because they know that he is going to win this election.
“President Nelson Chamisa does not announce appointments through anyone but his office, this information you are referring to is not from his office,” said Dr Sibanda.