Bootlicker: Didymus Mutasa seen here with President Mugabe |
Presidential Affairs Minister Didymus Mutasa has said that
President Robert Mugabe is constitutionally free to represent Zanu-PF at
the 2018 national elections because he has only started serving his
first term under the new Constitution.
This is despite the 89 year old having been in power for 33 years. At the end of his term, Mugabe will be 94 years old.
Mutasa, the Zanu PF Secretary for Administration was desperate to
play down the fierce infighting that has seen a faction of the party led
by Vice President Joice Mujuru engage in mortal combat with the one led
by Justice Minister Emmerson Mnanggagwa.
Mutasa described by the Herald newspaper as a “dwarf in huge
robes” claimed the weekend provincial polls which saw the Mujuru faction
winning 9 out of 10 provinces were not about who will succeed Mugabe.
Any talk of succession he claimed was premature.
“The thing to note is that Baba (President Mugabe) was elected for
his first term under the new Constitution at the July 31 harmonised
elections and the Constitution allows him to go for the second term,”
Mutasa said.
“How can you succeed someone who has just started serving his first
term? We conduct provincial elections after every four years and then in
the fifth year, we have Congress to elect the national leadership.
“The provincial elections are a constitutional requirement and not
about succession as claimed by those papers. Tell those people who say
the elections were about succession that Cde Mutasa says; ‘let not your
imaginations be so wild’.
“The other problem is the public Press is not speaking about
succession, yet Baba (President Mugabe) said it himself that speak about
it. But it becomes a problem when you start saying he must be succeeded
now when he has just started, ” he said.
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