Zanu-PF is united behind President Mnangagwa as the party’s
sole 2023 Presidential candidate and will not yield to external or internal
pressures imagined by its detractors now and in the future, Politburo member
Cde Munyaradzi Machacha has said.
He said President Mnangagwa and his deputies, Dr
Constantino Chiwenga and Cde Kembo Mohadi are working in unison to see
socio-economic development in the country.
Addressing party members gathered at Mpesi business centre
in Mberengwa West for the Midlands Provincial launch of the campaign to vote
for President Mnangagwa in 2023 elections, Cde Machacha said false social media
reports of disunity in the party must be dismissed with the contempt they
deserve.
He said rumours of a coup and animosity in the Presidium
were the works of the party’s detractors including self-exiled Mr Saviour
Kasukuwere and Professor Jonathan Moyo.
Cde Machacha who is also the principal director of the
Chitepo School of Ideology called on unity of purpose in the ruling party.
“Disunity is not well for the party, for the country and
economy at large. We need to work together, we need unity of purpose and if
that is there, even America won’t do anything to us. We in Zanu-PF should be a
united front,” he said.
“We have a lot of fake news on social media aimed at destabilising
our people and our leadership. It’s also aimed at making our youths denounce
their leaders, we need to have confidence in Zanu-PF leadership and the people.
“Coup rumours on social media are just lies so that
opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere get an
opportunity to be in power. There is a surge in fake news on some Twitter
accounts like for example a fake Twitter account for Cde Simon Khaya Moyo who
doesn’t own a Twitter account. It’s being done by Kasukuwere and Jonathan Moyo.
They want to portray the party as disunited, as if there is factionalism. But
it’s a fact that Zanu-PF is united and is fully behind the leadership of
President Mnangagwa. He is our sole leader and he is working well with his
deputies,” said Cde Machacha.
He said by 2023, the party needs a verifiable number of
supporters to win resoundingly.
“We need five million people. For that to happen let’s
start working on it today so that we have five million votes. Let’s work on the
cells and branches. Even President Mnangagwa is a cell member at his farm in
Kwekwe. So, every party member must be registered. Our cell is made up of 50
people and so it’s in compliance of Covid 19 regulations. We just need to
sanitise and maintain social distance. So, it must not disrupt the programme of
registering more members,” said Cde Machacha.
He called on the party members to concentrate on all areas
including towns, mining settlements, growth points.
Cde Machacha said Chitepo School of Ideology is not there just
to educate members punished by the party but is there to teach everyone the
Zanu-PF ideology.
“So, everyone to be in a leadership position must first
pass through the school of ideology. We are doing courses for everyone and
those in leadership and those we will deploy across the country. To stand as
MP, as councillor, one must pass through the school of ideology. Midlands
province, send your children and leadership to be trained at Dadaya training
centre in Zvishavane,” he said.
In attendance was Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo, Zanu-PF Midlands Provincial chairperson Engineer
Daniel Mackenzie Ncube, members of the provincial leadership members and
others. Chronicle
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