By Talent Gondo| Zanu Pf Spokesperson,Simon Khaya Moyo has dismissed allegations by self exiled former cabinet minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga are not actively campaigning because they have a rigging plan.
Writing on his Twitter account, Professor Moyo questioned why President Mnangagwa and Vice President Chiwenga are not on the ground campaigning a few months before the forthcoming harmonised elections.
Wrote Moyo, “Why are Mnangagwa and Chiwenga not on the ground campaigning with polls only 4 months away?”
Moyo gave three scenarios which he alleged the ruling party will implement suggesting that they will likely rig or do another coup.
“They have a rigging plan or the army will do another coup. Maybe they have given up the MID (Military Intelligence Directoraate ), CIO (Central Intelligence Organisation) and Rugeje’s Commissariat surveys give ED 15% of the presidential vote and #JuntaPe 60 out of 210 constituencies,” alleged Professor Moyo.
Khaya-Moyo however refuted Moyo’s allegations and said that Mnangagwa was not yet campaigning because Zanu-PF had not yet launched its election manifesto.
“Campaigns begin when we launch our manifesto. None of us are campaigning because we do not start campaigning before the launch of our manifesto,” he said.
The Zanu Pf Spokesperson however refused to be dragged into talking about what the party did in previous elections.
“I cannot talk about 2013, we are talking about 2018,” he said.
Zanu Pf has in the past been accused of rigging elections using a Russian Firm, Nikuv, an allegation which the party has vehemently refuted.
National People’s Party (NPP), Joice Mujuru who spent over 34 years as a Cabinet minister in former President, Robert Mugabe’s government, 10 of them as Vice-President confirmed that Zanu PF might have rigged previous polls including the contentious 2013 general election although she did not have the knowledge of how this was done.
The opposition parties including tbe Movement for Democratic Change (MDC- T) claimed that previous elections were fraught with irregularities.