MDC Vice President, Elias Mudzri is raging after he was told he would have to go for primary elections in Warren Park. “As a vice presiden...
MDC Vice President, Elias Mudzri is raging after he was told he would have to go for primary elections in Warren Park.“As a vice president I cannot be seen being challenged by junior people unless the idea is to reduce me into a political midget. Besides some of these people do not fit into the election template that we have set as a party. You cannot have a whole vice president going into a ward and subjected to primaries with junior members. I am in the presidium and have been acting president.
“Nowhere in the world do you see that happening. It is a joke. I hope someone is not playing political games meant to reduce me into a midget,” Eng Mudzuri told The Herald.
Meanwhile, sitting legislators such as Messrs Gift Chimanikire, (Southerton), Webster Maondera (Glen Norah) Fani Munengami (Glen View North) James Maridadi (Tafara/Mabvuku) and Simon Chidhakwa (Zengeza West) lost the primary polls.
Other bigwigs who lost include Mr Jameson Timba (Mount Pleasant) and women assembly chairperson, Ms Lynette Karenyi (Dangamvura-Chikanga).
Chimanikire, who lost to councillor Peter Moyo, described the primary elections as chaotic.
He said he would soon launch an appeal.
“There were several misdemeanors. People who had voted would mingle with those that had not voted and they would swap party cards and ended up voting more than once. Besides there was no register because presiding officer refused to use it saying it was shambolic. As a result people who were not party members were allowed to vote because they swapped cards,” said Chimanikire.
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