THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party has accused Zanu PF of causing confusion in the nomination process in which it ended up fielding double and in some cases triple nominations across the country.
Addressing a Press conference in Harare late yesterday, CCC
spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said Zanu PF forged signatures on nomination papers
to cause chaos after it failed to penetrate the party’s systems.
“Zanu PF failed to penetrate our systems and what did they
do, they went and forged our signatures and created 20 odd double candidates
that you see across the country for National Assembly and a number of them in
wards across the country,” she said.
Mahere said they discovered double nominations in 20
provinces and the matter had since been reported to the police, and an appeal
with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) had also been filed.
“We have filed objections in terms of the Electoral Act to
people whose names appear as our candidates and were not signed for by us. The
second issue is (that) criminal reports have been made to the police in
Masvingo and other constituencies because this is a fraud, it’s criminal,”
Mahere said.
“In some cases, we have a candidate who says well my money
was paid and papers filed but not by me, I don’t know who filed these, there is
someone clearly behind that,” she said.
Mahere said they would be going to court since they had sufficient
evidence to prove there was fraud because the forms of those involved in double
nomination had dubious logos and wrong signatures.
Meanwhile, Zanu PF has distanced itself from the chaos in
the CCC saying it was satisfied with its own nomination process and was
expecting victory in the August 23 polls. Newsday
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