Christopher Mutsvangwa has slammed Zanu PF commissar, Engelbert Rugeje as a political novice who presided over shambolic elections. “The n...
Christopher Mutsvangwa has slammed Zanu PF commissar, Engelbert Rugeje as a political novice who presided over shambolic elections.“The new national commissar, while he is a comrade, lacks the party’s institutional memory and failed to handle this issue well, leading to the disenfranchisement of thousands of party members countrywide.
“The political commissar relinquished his position as chief returning officer of the primary election to the police, who are supposed to be there to maintain law and order.” said Mutsvangwa, who is Mnangagwa’s adviser,.
Mutsvangwa was quoted by Newsday as saying that many Zanu PF members had been disenfranchised in the party’s internal polls.
“It is inconceivable that the President will win given that the party’s members have been largely disenfranchised,” he said.
“We realised that instead of being in the primary elections to provide peace and a stable environment in which Zanu PF members freely express themselves and choose their leaders, the national commissar, being a political novice, sought advice from a rehabilitated ex-Gamatox commissar in the form of Webster Shamu to turn police into returning-officers.”
Mutsvangwa lost in Norton to Langton Mutendereki. “Zanu PF’s problem has always been the abuse of the office of the political commissar and we are seeing this again,” he said.
“So, as war veterans, just as we did during the Mugabe era, give choice between a party that has lost through acts of omission or commission its fiduciary role, then we will be left with no choice but to go with the people.”
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