ZIMBABAWE’s Information Minister, Jenfan Muswere used to be this Wednesday assigned an unenviable activity of issuing an expert rebuttal of ongoing internecine strife pitting President Emmerson Mnangagwa against his deputy, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga over succession.
As Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF henchmen put his inform for a third presidential term, Chiwenga is reportedly scheming, alongside his trusted navy allies, to thwart the unconstitutional switch, which has widened the rift between the country’s strongest figures.
Chiwenga, ahead of second VP Kembo Mohadi, reportedly fancies himself Mnangagwa’s successor whose second and final term expires in 2028, nonetheless the President’s faction wants him to cease till 2030 ostensibly to fulfil programmes spelt out in the Imaginative and prescient 2030 blueprint.
Addressing the media in Harare, Muswere stated there used to be no vacancy in the most realistic likely discipline of job, hence the derive together used to be going ahead with the Twenty first National Folks’s Convention in Bulawayo as planned.
“The ruling derive together, Zanu PF, will seemingly be conducting the National Folks’s Convention under the theme: ‘Mechanise, Modernise And Develop The Financial system In opposition to Imaginative and prescient 2030’, the convention is no longer an optionally obtainable convention or an optionally obtainable congress.
“The national chairman and Defence minister (Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri) has clearly spelt out the agenda, theme and focus,” stated Muswere.
He added that Mnangagwa used to be democratically voted into the Inform Condominium in 2023 polls whereas his discipline in the derive together as first secretary used to be also gotten through constitutional approach.
“So, effectively there is no vacancy in the Office of The President, in that the government and party leadership is properly constituted in terms of the respective constitutions,” the minister stated.
He additional claimed there are seemingly to be no longer any fights in the presidium, in spite of the evidently worrying atmosphere that prevailed during Tuesday’s Politburo meeting in Harare, the put Mnangagwa and Chiwenga sat side-by-side nonetheless with out exhibiting the usual cordiality.
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“There is singleness in cohesion, admire, comradeship and cohesion in the presidium and authorities.
“Thus, there is no discord in the cockpit and that at the present moment, the Government of Zimbabwe is seized with ensuring that poverty is alleviated and that there is a better future for the people of Zimbabwe.”
All stakeholders had been entreated to rally behind Mnangagwa “as he spearheads and shepherds the nation towards an upper middle-income society by the year 2030.”
The information minister warned these peddling ‘fiction’ on the Zanu PF leadership tussles to face ready to face the wrath of the law.
“We remain unfazed by overzealous misdirected energies of half-wits on social media, who wish to sow seeds of divisions. There is no room for theatrics and manufacturing of fiction through imaginary mandates, and those bent on misinforming the people shall be dealt with in terms of the law,” stated Muswere.
