ZANU PF used its just-ended conference to activate its 2023
election campaign, despite the polls being at least three-and-half years away.
“We have to grow our party support in 2023 from 2,5 million
supporters to five million and winning the presidential election by not less
than 65%. As leadership, we want you to convert all people into Zanu PF
supporters, so that they work whole heartedly for the party,” party commissar
Victor Matemadanda said.
Former Senate President Edna Madzongwe called on the Zanu
PF-led government to pour more resources and government programmes in the rural
areas because that is where most voters live.
“We have to ensure that we cater more for the rural folk
and roll out empowerment programmes because that is where our people are and
the party gets more votes from,” she said while delivering part of the
conference resolutions.
Madzongwe, now a full-time party employee with ministerial
perks, said it was also strategic for the party to take advantage of the MDC’s
failure to turnaround cities which they control to ensure that they win the
urban vote.
This is despite the MDC putting all its energies in
demonstrations against the ruling party and plotting to oust Mnangagwa from
power before 2023 through popular uprisings.
Mnangagwa, however, said he won’t be bothered by the
irritating noises coming from Nelson Chamisa’s party, but instead will continue
to govern.
“Besides being the party of liberation, we are the party of
our future, the legacy of our heroic forefathers is safe in the hands of Zanu
PF, you don’t ask who are the legitimate leaders of Zimbabwe, it is clear that
Zanu PF is governing,” he said.
Mnangagwa said his party was united and stronger. “Go back home and tell the people that the party is alive,
that the party is solid and united,” he said in closing the 2019 conference. Newsday
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