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Wait, Mugabe challengers told
[Daily Nation (Kenya)]  Zim-bob-we President Bob MuggsyMugabe's Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... Zanu PF party on Thursday told its members harbouring presidential ambitions to wait until 2014 to express their interest. The instruction came a week after a Zanu PF founding member told journalists the 88-year-old leader had told him he was tired and wanted to retire. Former Defence Minister Enos Nkala met President Mugabe in the second city of Bulawayo last Friday for close to an hour. He said the former guerilla leader who has led Zim-bob-we since independence in 1980, told him the only thing delaying his retirement was a fear that Zanu PF was in danger of splitting. But Mr Nkala is now backtracking saying his statements were taken out of context by journalists itching for a "big story." Zanu PF front man Mr Rugare Gumbo said President Mugabe's opponents from within the party must wait until the 2014 elective congress to throw their hats into the ring. "Let us focus on strengthening the party rather than destabilise it, which is the position of the politburo (Zanu PF secretariat)," he told the state owned Herald newspaper. "If there is anyone who is interested in the leadership of the party, they should wait for the party's congress in 2014, where they should express their interests." Posted by: Fred 2012-05-25 |
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