ZANU PF’s ward 8 Mziba district is pushing for a rerun of September 26 elections, which it says were fraught with rigging.
The district petitioned the provincial leadership on
October 3 seeking redress, but its concerns were ignored, disgruntled party
members told Southern Eye.
The petition was directed to the district co-ordinating
committee (DCC) office 1 and the Bulawayo province office chaired by one
Mutomba and provincial chairperson Obert Msindo.
“We, the undersigned Zanu PF members, dispute the elections
that took place on September 26, including the processes that were undertaken
thereafter without observing the directives from the commissariat circulars
guiding the conduct of district elections,” the disgruntled members said.
“Pursuant to our petition letter to you dated October 3, we
can truly confirm that to date, we have not received a reply from your office.
“In the same vein, may you also be informed that due to the
situation prevailing in the district, we will be left with no option, but to
approach the national commissariat department for redress of the same
contentious issues that threaten the existence of Zanu PF as a party?”
Msindo professed ignorance when contacted for comment over
the petition.
“I do not know anything about the petition. I will find out
and come back to you,” he said.
Politburo member and Bulawayo Provincial Affairs minister
Judith Ncube also professed ignorance.
However, this comes ahead of the pending provincial
elections,
Former war veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda submitted his
curriculum vitae to contest for the provincial chairperson’s post after a long
sabbatical.
Also eyeing the post is the current chair, former
Mpopoma-Pelandaba legislator Joseph Tshuma and Bulawayo war veterans’ leader
Cephas Ncube.
Sibanda, who was re-admitted to Zanu PF in 2018, was
credited for mobilising a “million men” march in 2007 through the streets of
Harare in support of the late Robert Mugabe’s candidature for the 2008 general
elections.
However, he was expelled from the Zimbabwe National
Liberation War Veterans Association in 2014 for allegedly being disrespectful
to the First Family. Newsday
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