Former first lady, Grace Mugabe is said to be pushing for the ouster of the leader of National Patriotic Front, Rtd brigadier general, Amb...
Former first lady, Grace Mugabe is said to be pushing for
the ouster of the leader of National Patriotic Front, Rtd brigadier general, Ambrose Mutinhiri
describing him as incompetent.
“There is war inside the party, with Grace and her close
former G40 kingpins now pushing for Mutinhiri’s ouster, claiming that he is
incompetent and that she (Grace) is better qualified and placed to lead the
party into this year’s elections.
“I really sympathise with Mutinhiri, as looking at the
issue in retrospect it’s now clear that he was set up to fail, as NPF only
exists on paper with neither a structure nor followers.
“It is also clear now that he was used, just like what
Grace and the G40 kingpins did to poor (former Cabinet minister Sydney)
Sekeramayi whose name they expediently threw into the Zanu PF succession mix
last year when they in fact wanted Grace to succeed Mugabe,” one of the
insiders told the Daily News.
However, NPF spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire accused
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government of peddling falsehoods against the
party.“I have not heard any complaints about ... Mutinhiri’s leadership and
therefore cannot comment on falsehoods planted by the junta to elicit
information about our party.
“We have all our feet on the ground and our hands on the
wheel. We will shake the regime in a big way and will certainly save our people
from the shackles put on them on November 15, 2017.
“We will send Mnangagwa and his fellow coup organisers out
of government through the harmonised elections this year,” Mawarire said.
The NPF spokesperson also said they had deferred releasing
their list of the party’s leadership after learning of the intelligence
community’s “machinations” — which he claimed had been foiled by their delay.
“We know the junta has been desperate for that list, and
has tried to come up with its own list of our leadership and we are enjoying
the desperation and panic shown by this illegal regime.
“We are strategic in our planning and the execution of our
strategy. We are a party formed in the midst of a coup and operating in a
country under a military junta, hence it will be both unprofessional and
unstrategic for me, or any organ of the party for that matter to lay bare our
strategy to our opponents.
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