ZANU PF supporters who snubbed President Emmerson Mnangagwa
and First Lady Auxillia separate rallies in Bindura recently said they could
not go to rallies on empty stomachs.
Mnangagwa was supposed to address a rally in Bindura before
officiating at a graduation ceremony at Bindura University of Science Education
while the First Lady was hosting a family fun day at Chipadze Stadium, which
residents snubbed.
“Things are very difficult these days so we will be busy
hustling to have food on the table, we cannot go to rallies on empty bellies,”
a party supporter who preferred anonymity said.
According to provincial social welfare offices, 70 080
people in all the Mashonaland Central’s eight districts are in need of food aid
following last season’s poor harvests.
The opposition MDC claimed that the snub was a sign people in
the Zanu PF stronghold were fed up with the ruling party, which has presided
over a failing economy.
Zanu PF scooped all the 18 parliamentary seats in the
province in the 2018 polls.
MDC provincial chairperson George Gwarada said the snub on
Mnangagwa and First Lady was telling.
“People in the province are tired of the Mnangagwa regime.
This is clearly shown by poor attendance at their functions, despite trying to
bus people from all the districts. In short, Mash Central is just fed up with
Zanu PF,” he said.
Gwarada implored Mnangagwa to save himself further
humiliation by accepting dialogue with MDC leader Nelson Chamisa.
“There is only one way to save Mnangagwa from further
humiliation, that is dialogue with Chamisa, but he (Mnangagwa) has to be sincere
in saving the people of Zimbabwe, not selfish gains.”
The First Family’s programmes allegedly flopped because of
factionalism rocking the Zanu PF provincial leadership ahead of the district
co-ordinating committee elections.
Zanu PF politburo member and Bindura North legislator
Kenneth Musanhi, who had organised the flopped rally, said Zanu PF was still
solid and people were just trying to portray a picture of a divided provincial
leadership, but on the ground, the leadership was
united.
“The province is solidly behind President Mnangagwa and the
reports of factionalism are just being spread to tarnish the provincial
leadership,” Musanhi said. Newsday
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