Kasukuwere’s election agent, Jacqueline Sande in a tweet
confirmed the court’s position adding that her client, who has registered to
run for President as an independent in the forthcoming polls, is upbeat that
the application will be dismissed.
Lawyer Lovedale Mangwana who also cites the Zimbabwe
Electoral Commission and Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi
Ziyambi as defendants, has challenged Kasukuwere’s candidacy in the courts
on grounds that the politician has been
living outside Zimbabwe for more than 18 months, and therefore is ineligible to
take part.
He argues that the nomination court erred in accepting
Kasukuwere’s papers to contest in the elections as an independent Presidential
candidate because his 18-month long absence from the country and constituency
meant that he had ceased to be a registered voter.
Therefore, Mangwana states, the nomination court’s decision
to register Kasukuwere as candidate was in violation of the Constitution.
“The 1st respondent has not been resident in any
constituency in the Republic of Zimbabwe for a period in excess of 18
consecutive months and his name cannot, by that circumstance, be retained on
the voter’s roll,” he said.
However, Sande, who successfully filed Kasukuwere’s
nomination papers at the High Court in Harare on June 21, says the case was too
shallow and frivolous, and is going to collapse.
She said Kasukuwere who is represented by Harrison Nkomo in
his argument contends that Mangwana had approached the wrong forum and without
sufficient evidence to sustain his case. — New Ziana
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