President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s close ally and
Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena has vouched for
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, saying the former army general, who
toppled former President Robert Mugabe in a coup in November 2017, had no plans
to stage another military takeover.
Addressing members of his constituency at the weekend,
Wadyajena dismissed speculative reports that a coup was looming following
Chiwenga’s return from a four-month long medical trip in China.
The speculation was further fuelled by the absence of
senior government officials to welcome Chiwenga at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe
International Airport on November 23 and at his home-coming prayer meeting in
Wedza at the weekend.
“There were celebrations in the opposition that VP Chiwenga
is back and ED is going. They said there is going to be a coup. Nothing like
that will ever happen. The President and his deputy are brothers and it is
President Mnangagwa who spoke to his Chinese counterpart (Xi Jinping) to have
his deputy flown to China for treatment because they say he was poisoned,”
Wadyajena said.
Chiwenga’s detractors claimed the ex-army general was angry
over recent purges on his loyalists in the party and military.
Wadyajena said the narrative was being peddled by remnants
of the G40 cabal to fan factionalism in the party.
“We hear you got calls from some ministers saying you must
not bring the presidential inputs here. Whoever is calling you is working
against the President. That’s why youths say they are people targeting ED and
Nicodemously, saying he must go and leave for a younger person. Leave to go
where? The Constitution says he must serve for two terms,” he said.
“Let us support the President and not work against him and
sabotage him. Elections are in 2023, (so) let us not be in campaign mode.”
Cotton Producers and Marketers Association chairperson
Steward Mubonderi said Mnangagwa had taken the Cuban and Rwandan strategy to
bust sanctions through boosting local crop production.
“Today, Iraq and Libya are crying, they lacked vision and
supported the killing of Sadam Hussein and Libyan leader Muammar Gadafi. They
are now feeling the heat. It is disastrous to think of removing a leader now
when we are under sanctions,” he said.
“What is killing us is lack of production. We don’t remove
sanctions by marching, we need production. We do not forsake our father because
of hunger,” Mubonderi said. Newsday
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