By Own Correspondent| National chairperson of Zanu Pf who doubles as the minister of Defence and War Veterans, Oppah Muchinguri Kashiri has said opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s election victory in urban areas gave him the impetus to be “stubborn and mad” adding that he had to be stopped.

She said this at a provincial inter-district conference at Masvingo Polytechnic on Monday (December 3).

Muchinguri Kashiri said while her party won resoundingly in rural areas, Zanu Pf suffered humiliating defeat in urban areas and party stalwarts should work hard to reverse this trend.

She said:

“We won resoundingly in rural areas but we suffered heavy losses in all urban areas. Harare boosted Chamisa’s votes because he got over 500 000 and we got about 200 000. The same trend was seen in Bulawayo, Mutare, Masvingo, Gweru and pretty much all the urban centres.

We have a lot of work to do in all urban set ups. This is what is giving Chamisa all this madness and he has to be stopped. Chamisa has been so stubborn.

He has refused to accept the election results even though all other countries have endorsed them. We had free and fair elections and President Mnangagwa was declared the winner.

Chamisa refused and made a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) challenge where our President was again declared winner. Despite all this, Chamisa still remains adamant and is doing demonstrations.”