MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to accept defeat in the just ended harmonised elections.

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Chamisa, who is challenging the Presidential election results in the Constitutional Court, claims the election was rigged in favour of Mnangagwa who was declared the winner by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).

Addressing the media Chamisa said he is ready to assume the Presidential office as soon as the matter is settled.

“People voted, they overwhelmingly voted for change, they voted for this candidate and this candidate is ready to assume office at the appropriate time.

“Mr Mnangagwa (Emmerson) was defeated and as I will indicate we urge him to accept that defeat and to be honourable enough, patriotic enough, humble enough, revolutionary enough, to accept the will of the people,” he said.

Chamisa added that they have overwhelming evidence to show that the election was rigged courtesy of their anti-rigging unit that was employed during the election.

“We had the safeguard that is why we want the court to declare, we have the evidence we did put in place the anti-rigging unit that is why we know the actual results and that’s why we know where they have cheated.

“And that is why Chigumba is in sixes and sevens on this issue, that is why they continue to revise Mr Mnangagwa’s figures downwards and we don’t know where they are going to stop.

“So we won this election, it’s not an easy thing for us to garner the millions of votes that we have garnered. And Mr Mnangagwa’s millions are actually fiction, some are engineered, some produced on his behalf, declared on his behalf, some are forced in terms of assisted voters, some are command votes where they had to commandeer people to vote for them and some they have multiplied,” he said.

The Constitutional Court is scheduled to sit this coming Wednesday (22 August) to hear the Chamisa’s petition in a case that is also going to put the independence of the judiciary system to test.

Chamisa’s legal team which he has branded the A-legal team is composed of both locals and regional legal minds, including those used by the late South African iconic President Nelson Mandela.

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