By Langton Ncube|A war of words has erupted between Businessman Energy Mutodi and Goromonzi west MP Beatrice Nyamupinga over the constituency ahead of the forth coming elections.

Mutodi wants to stand as Goromonzi west MP on a Zanu PF ticket in the next elections while Nyamupinga wants to retain her seat.

Mutodi at the weekend told Daily News that Nyamupinga was working with the opposition to denounce him.

He accused the MP of working with the former President Robert Mugabe linked National Patriotic Front, NPF party.

“My rivalry with her is not new. In 2013, I should have become the MP for Goromonzi West but I was blocked by Ray Kaukonde who was working under instruction of the then Vice President Joice Mujuru.

“Mujuru wanted Nyamupinga to win because they are related and they were working on a Gamatox project together. They came up with trumped up charges against me and I was arrested several times only to be acquitted by the courts.”

But Nyamupinga strongly hit back saying she had no time to campaign against “a certain loser”.

“We know that he has been moving around the constituency slaughtering cattle for feasts under the guise that he was holding celebratory parties for President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

“We all know he is misrepresenting the president. In terms of party and government hierarchy, I am the president’s representative here, who is he?” she exploded.

She also denied allegations that she was behind the distribution of the anti-Mutodi fliers in the constituency.

“To start with, I am not very good with computers and so there is no way I could have made those designs. I was never a part to his stands scandal for which people are demanding that he be accountable.

“I am not the only contestant here; there are many others who are eyeing the seat and these fliers could have come from any one of those, why then does he point the suspicion finger at me. I am the current MP for the area and I shall remain an MP,” she said.
“I am a very peaceful person. He should just wait for the primary elections to come so that he loses resoundingly,” said Nyamupinga.