Farai Dziva|Deputy Information Minister Energy Mutodi has legitimised Robert Mugabe’s removal from office , saying that the central committee chose Emmerson Mnangagwa to fill a power vacuum that had been left after former’s demise.

“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,” Mutodi told Newsday.