Violence In Mujuru’s NPP Ahead Of Elections
24 March 2017
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Shyleen Mtandwa | Mass intimidation and violence are the order of the day in the Joyce Mujuru led National People’s Party.

There is a bloody run up to the inaugural internal party elections to chose the national executive council of the party tomorrow.

The elections will be held simultaneously in all the ten provinces of the party on Saturday to elect the top six members of the national executive council and another 110 members of the council, eleven from each province.

It is the election of the top six positions of the party that has attracted the most controversy dividing the party into two fierce factions which have seen some violent clashes take place.

The party is torn between two factions divided by allegiance to Interim commissar Dzikamai Mavhaire and current Matabeleland South Provincial Chairman Bekezela Fuzwayo Maduma.

Mavhaire leads a team of Elders Team with John Mvundura and Samuel Sipepa Nkomo as the two Vice President candidates while troubled Gift Nyandoro is standing for Secretary General and Bulawayo based Bukhosi Ntuta as Treasurer General.

The team alligned to Maduma has the younger pair of Cuthbert Ncube and Elliot Kasu for Vice Presidents and Petronella Musarurwa as Secretary General while Wilbert Mbaiwa is standing for Treasurer General.

Information reaching ZimEye.com from within the party indicates that as the campaigning intensifies, the under pressure Mavhaire faction has declared Harare and Masvingo Provinces as no go areas for the other faction. Threats of violence against party members who will welcome the young leader’s faction in the two provinces have been sent out to party members completely blocking the faction from campaigning in the two provinces.

In Bulawayo, reports of fierce rivalry over the two Vice President contestants in the region between Ncube and Sipepa Nkomo ended with chairlady Esnath Bulayani being assaulted by the youth members of the party.

In a statement, the party elections directorate warned party members against violence and intimidation or risk having their candidates disqualified.