Calls for Mnangagwa to hang on to power are likely to
dominate the conference with talk in some Zanu PF circles indicating that one
way to isolate the former army commander and eliminate him from the succession
race would be for the women’s league to push for a female vice president.
The Standard established that some of Chiwenga’s allies
were now forced to feign public support for Mnangagwa’s term extension fearing
the unknown, but burning the midnight oil against the moves.
According to a politiburo member, senior Zanu PF officials
are feeling the heat to publicly declare their allegiance to Mnangagwa as they
feared that he may get back at them.
“The top war veterans' leadership has not yet communicated
a position to support the president’s continued stay in office, but then,
loyalty is about individuals and not an association. So it is up to the
provincial chairpersons to declare their positions.
“In Masvingo, war veterans tried to object to the
president’s 2030 rule, but they have been discredited as a bogus association.”
🟣The legendary Christiane @amanpour did the Lord’s work in this foreboding 2018 @CNN interview. In it, she asked Mr Mnangagwa whether he believed Robert Mugabe had stayed in power too long.
— Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 (@advocatemahere) August 28, 2024
Almost prophetically, she further asked whether Mnangagwa would do the same. Mnangagwa… pic.twitter.com/MX5FPu9FJq
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