Christopher Mutsvangwa’s rival in the Zanu PF Norton race has pulled out amid revelations of behind the scenes manoeuvring to ensure the f...
Christopher Mutsvangwa’s rival in the Zanu PF Norton race
has pulled out amid revelations of behind the scenes manoeuvring to ensure the
former War Veterans minister had a clean passage.
Mudereki had trounced Mutsvangwa in the primary elections
and Mnangagwa’s special advisor threw a tantrum.
Sources have told the Standard that the Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial
coordinating committee (PCC) meeting that met yesterday was given an
instruction to ensure Mutsvangwa was not contested.
“We are going into this meeting with a clear instruction,
comrade, we have to ensure that the special advisor is uncontested in the
re-run. This is because he had no time to campaign and he is very busy
travelling with the president while other candidates had time to do so,” said a
member of the PCC before the meeting in Chinhoyi yesterday.
“So the instruction is that he has to go uncontested,”
added the source, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Mutsvangwa emerged all smiles from the PCC meeting and declared
that the province had done “the correct thing.”
“I feel happy because this is what the Mashonaland West
leadership and the people of Norton wanted,” he said.
“It was investigated and the technical team saw that the
initial elections were not done according to the laid-down rules and
regulations. I never forced anyone to quit, he [Mutendereki] withdrew
voluntarily and he is part of my campaign team.”
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