By Talent Gondo| Zanu Pf Secretary for Administration, Dr Obert Mpofu has revealed that senior members of other political parties are eager to join Zanu Pf as the party embarks on a membership drive aimed at reorganising the party.
Mpofu, who was “retired” from cabinet and from his senatorial post and who is now working full time together with other Politburo members in Zanu Pf said his party was allowing members from other political parties to join Zanu Pf.
Said Mpofu:
“We are allowing members from other parties to join us and we have received overwhelming response from very senior members of other parties, very senior members who had left the party for one reason or the other, they are all eager to join the party.
We are now in a position to reorganise the party, hence the decision by His Excellency, the President, to have full-time members of the Politburo stationed at the party’s headquarters.
Having full-time Politburo members will ensure that the party is in top gear and also ensures it is conforming to constitutional requirements in terms of its operations.
We are coming up with a think-tank of technical personnel, people with expertise, that is relevant to our requirements.
That research and development department will be under my office, which is the Secretary for Administration’s Office.
President Mnangagwa has directed that this department be established post-haste and ensure that we attract the necessary calibre of people to deal with that.
We are looking at political scientists, we are looking at ICT experts and administrators who understand the modern ways of advancing an institution like Zanu-PF, an institution that has been given the mandate to lead the people of Zimbabwe.
If we are to achieve the expectations of our principal and leadership of having Zimbabwe as a middle-income country within a few years, we need to have such experts, to do the researches and develop those concepts for us to share them with the implementation agents; in this case, which is the Government of Zimbabwe.
Our President has opened doors for all those who want to associate themselves with the party; these are people who left the party for various reasons and also those who want to join Zanu-PF for the first time.”