ZANU PF is targeting 80 percent of the vote during the August 23 harmonised elections to deal the country’s detractors and their regime change puppets a lethal blow, the party’s Second Vice President, Cde Kembo Mohadi said yesterday.
Cde Mohadi was addressing a ZANU PF rally at Mutsago
Primary School in Mutare West Constituency when he said the party will win by a
huge margin that will leave the opposition without even the option of
approaching the courts.
The opposition lost the 2018 elections and approached the
courts, alleging vote rigging, but lost for lack of evidence.
The Mutare West rally was also attended by supporters from
the nearby Mutare North and Mutare South constituencies.
ZANU PF will be represented by Cde Nyasha Marange (Mutare
West), Cde Admire Mahachi (Mutare North) and Cde Dunmore Dumbarimwe (Mutare
South).
The rally was the fourth by the presidency following two
visits by President Mnangagwa and one by Vice-President, Dr Constantino
Chiwenga, last week.
Cde Mohadi implored party members to go out in their
numbers to overwhelmingly vote for ZANU PF, and give it a landslide victory to
silence its foreign detractors and their local puppets.
Cde Mohadi said Manicaland has a rich revolutionary history
dating back to the days of the liberation struggle when the province was the
main transit corridor for gallant sons and daughters who skipped the country
for military training in Mozambique.
“I am a member of the Presidency, and I have come to ask
for you to vote for ZANU PF. We know your expectations, our campaign for this
year is anchored on the achievements by the infrastructure developments done by
the Second Republic.
“President Mnangagwa wants a resounding victory. We need an
overwhelming victory. We need to silence our detractors and their puppets so
that they won’t even go to the courts.
“We don’t want to repeat what happened in 2018 when our
President won by 50.8 percent and was challenged in court. This year, we want
80 percent of the votes. You have seen the developments we are doing and we
need a second mandate from you to finish what we have started,” said Cde
Mohadi.
“The first thing we did when he got into office in 2018 was
to analyse the national threat. We realised that it was food security and
climate change because the unreliable rains were ruining harvests.
“We took the first step to ensure food self-sufficiency,
and to achieve this, we constructed dams in each province, and established
irrigation for local communities.
“In Manicaland, you have Muchekeranwa and Marowanyati dams,
in Masvingo, they have Tugwi-Mukosi, Matabeleland North we are building one of
the biggest dams, Gwayi-Shangani.
“Over the last three years, Zimbabwe has not imported food.
We are the third country in Africa to be wheat self-sufficient,” he said.
Roads across the country were being rehabilitated under the
Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP).
“Without roads there is no development. We are also
expanding the airports, we are doing it step by step. We are requesting you to
give us another five-year mandate to finish what we have started. We need a
second mandate from you,” he said.
Government is drilling 35 000 solarised boreholes to ensure
each villages has a borehole for clean water and village business units
horticulture, fisheries, poultry, small livestock farming and dip tanks.
He said corrective measures were being taken against
economic saboteurs manipulating the exchange rate and prices of basic
commodities.
He said Zimbabwe was the only county that has taken its
land from whites and gave it to the indigenous people.
He warned ZANU PF candidates to be humble when soliciting
for votes and when elected to office.
“Let me warn you that the electorate are your masters. Do
not boss yourself around these voters because they are the ones that vote you
in or out. You must always visit
constituencies listening to their issues and expectations.
“Do not be cellphone politicians. Be among the people and
learn from them. They know a lot of things which you don’t know. You cannot
lead people you don’t love. These are the four virtues of leadership, love,
live with the people, listen and learn from the people. Cascade development to
the grassroots,” said Cde Mohadi. Herald
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