The exiled professor Jonathan Moyo has spoken concerning who the late president Robert Mugabe’s preferred successor was before the November 2017 coup.

Jonathan Moyo’s statement follows Emmerson Mnangagwa’s stripping of Sydney Sekeramayi’s senior government post following the 2017 coup.

Writing on Tuesday, Moyo said: “In November 2017, I did not believe that Mugabe was going to die in office.

“I did not expect him to run for office in 2018 and I therefore expected a successor; and my preference was Dr Sydney Sekeremayi! “