By A Correspondent| The outgoing deputy to the NPP’s leader, Joice Mujuru, Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo has revealed he did not at all endorse ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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The state broadcaster, ZBC, yesterday claimed that Dr Nkomo has backed Mnangagwa, in a dry news piece with neither quotations of what they allege he uttered.
But in a full interview Thursday afternoon, the man himself told ZimEye.com, he did not at all endorse Mnangagwa.
He told ZimEye’s Simba Chikanza, “well, I, my brother I don’t know, I have worked in the newspaper industry myself, sometimes what appears on the headline, is not necessarily what appears in the main story.
“As you know I worked for the Daily News, if I can tell you whatever I said, there is nothing in it that says I said I have endorsed Mnangagwa, because that question never arose. That question never arose. All I did say that I was personally happy that he appointed Mthulu Ncube. Eh, the appointing of Ncube as Minister Of Finance and following his advice, following Mthuli’s advice, its a different thing; but if he follows Mthuli Ncube’s advice, then we can take a step forward. But if he doesn’t follow his advice to do that thing, we will be back to square one.
“I don’t know whether that means endorsement,” added Sipepa-Nkomo.
Dr Nkomo also told ZimEye, contrary to attacks on Nelson Chamisa by the state media, he is joining the opposition as an elder.
“Well I have been an official elder for the MDC because they have got a council of elders I have been the secretary(sic) for the elders; but this time around, I am simply an elder, I will be an elder in the opposition politics, and for me I was also asked, if they asked for my advice: I said I would advise all the opposition political parties because I want to be absolutely neutral, and but my first advice to all political parties (opposition progressive ones), is to unite and have one umbrella, rather than have 22 Presidential candidates against ZANU PF one; and I said that is a disaster. I said we need to begin talking now as opposition parties and have one presidential candidate; and not tomorrow, now in preparation for 2023.”