By Own Correspondent| A Zanu Pf MP and deputy Information Minister Energy Mutodi has legitimised the removal of former president Robert Mugabe saying that the ascendancy of the current leader Emmerson Mnangagwa was above board.

Mutodi argued that Mnangagwa’s ascendancy to power cannot be likened to the ascendancy of opposition leader Nelson Chamisa since Mnangagwa was chosen by the central committee to fill a power vacuum that had been left after former president’s demise.

Mutodi said this in an interview with a local publication where he encouraged Chamisa to relinquish power since the High Court had ruled that he was an illegitimate leader.

He said:

For Zanu PF, I can assure you that this is not the same issue because there were intervening issues.

First of all, the President of the Republic, then Robert Mugabe was facing impeachment for allegations for having given his wife certain executive powers and Parliament taking measures to impeach him.

The military had intervened in the process of government on a very clear issue that the status quo had broken down so that is why the central committee had to sit in a formally-constituted meeting to determine who would be elected as the leader or interim leader of Zanu PF and then substantive leader.

That is how Mnangagwa’s name emerged. So this cannot be the same or some kind of replication or similarity of what is happening in the MDC.