By Paul Nyathi|The ruling ZANU PF says that it has learnt a lesson from the recent Constitutional Court on the outcome of the Presidential election appeal by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.

The party Deputy Secretary for Legal Affairs Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana told weekend media that the party learnt a lesson that it must never leave elections to chance.

Mangwana said that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is the one that has got to be worried on issues raised by the court not themselves as a party.

“For Zanu PF, the whole test was useless because it had no basis. The lessons learnt are not for Zanu PF, but probably to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec),” he said.

“The only lesson we should draw from that is that we should campaign harder and win resoundingly next time because the MDC Alliance was taking advantage of the slender margin we had to think that they should have been victorious.”

Mangwana expressed concerns at the ZANU PF “bhora musango” tactic which saw members of parliament get far much more votes than their presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa.

“We now need to sell our presidential candidate in a stronger way and ensure that in the future he wins by the same margin like in the parliamentary elections.”

Mangwana disputed on-going speculations that ZANU PF are involved in any talks for a unity governmemt with the MDC or Chamisa indicating that the opposition party could “go and hang.”

“We do not need to talk to them because we have the mandate to rule from the people of Zimbabwe. They can go to hang.

People elected Mnangagwa as president. He is the father of the nation, and he wants his children to live in peace.

The president did not offer the MDC Alliance a coalition government,” he added.