ZANU-PF yesterday warned party members in Bulawayo against
abusing their proximity to President Mnangagwa to violate party procedures.
The party’s politburo member and Chitepo School of Ideology
principal Cde Munyaradzi Machacha, who is part of the team superintending over
Zanu-PF Bulawayo District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections set for today,
said no one should claim to love the President more than other party members.
He was addressing war veterans during a meeting held at
Stanley Hall in Makokoba suburb.
“He (President Mnangagwa) is the President for all of us. I
therefore as Machacha cannot claim to love Cde Mnangagwa more than everyone
else. I cannot with my clique claim to be Mnangagwa’s loyalists in Bulawayo
sidelining everyone else in the party. When they (party members) are the ones
who vote for President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF. We have this group that claims to
be closer to Cde Mnangagwa than everyone else. We say down with that,” he said.
Cde Machacha said some of the party members were not
learning from the past events which led to the military intervention in 2017.
He said Operation Restore Legacy was prompted by the
conduct of some party members who were abusing their proximity to the late
former President Cde Robert Mugabe.
The military intervention saw former Cabinet ministers who
include Mr Saviour Kasukuwere, Mr Walter Mzembi and Professor Jonathan Moyo
going into self- imposed exile.
“As war veterans if you remember we became famous when we
held meetings with the late former President Mugabe on two occasions and
complained that there was clique of people that had surrounded him behaving as
if they were the ones who were more Zanu-PF than others.
“They did not have the party ideology and we told Cde
Mugabe this. There was nothing we could be taught by Kasukuwere because there
was nothing he knew. Now we are seeing a situation where some people want to
repeat the same thing,” said Cde Machacha.
He said Operation Restore Legacy was meant to remove
thieves that had surrounded former President Mugabe.
Cde Machacha said some people wanted to label others G40
loyalists ahead of today’s DCC elections so that they get disqualified.
“We expect to see a change in the quality of leadership
after the DCC elections. People elected to office must come from the people and
not individuals imposed,” he said.
Addressing the same meeting, Zimbabwe National Liberation
War Veterans Association Bulawayo provincial chairman Cde Cephas Ncube
expressed concern over alleged vote buying ahead of the elections. Chronicle
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