By Own Correspondent| Elders of the Johane Marange Apostolic sect have predicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory as the country heads for the watershed polls advising him to stop campaigning since his victory was already guaranteed.

Speaking during Mnangagwa’s visit at their shrine in Mafararikwa, Marange today, Apostle Abel Chimbadzo, one of the church elders assured the Zanu PF Presidential candidate of victory in the forthcoming polls saying he had already been anointed to lead Zimbabwe.

Said Chimbadzo:

“Mr President, you can even go back and stop campaigning because you have begged the trophy already.

There is nothing that this man (Noah Taguta, leader of the church) says and does not come to pass. My appeal to you is that please keep his word in good faith.”

Addressing thousands of church members gathered at the shrine, Mnangagwa thanked the church for welcoming him and allowing him to address the multitudes of worshippers whom he said had come to the shrine voluntarily unlike those that attend party rallies.

“When we call for rallies, we visit people’s homes inviting them and we tell them that we will give them t-shirts. Some just come for the t-shirts…..but i have never seen such a big crowd come voluntarily. It is God’s hand,” he said.

He thanked the church for endorsing him as the chosen leader,  adding that his government valued the church and would ensure that all their needs were met as long as he was in power.

“When God says or writes anything prophetic, he does not erase it. So I can safely say I am in,” said Mnangagwa who was donning the church’s robe called “gemenzi” in Shona.