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Welshman Ncube scoffs at Mugabe 'insult'
10 Jun 2013 at 06:28hrs | Views
Movement for Democratic Change leader Welshman Ncube has scoffed at President Robert Mugabe's claims that he does not deserve to be in Cabinet because he lost the last election, saying it was "mind-boggling" for the 89-year-old to say he won an election himself.
"We were able to set up a Global Political Agreement (GPA) with some who had won elections and others who had lost," the veteran ruler said.
"Both professors for example, Welshman Ncube and Arthur Mutambara had lost.
But Ncube described Mugabe's outburst as "sad delusions by a man whose hands drip with the blood of Zimbabweans murdered by his henchmen in an attempt to reverse his defeat at the March 2008 elections".
"How someone who did what Mugabe did can possibly think he was elected is mind-boggling," the MDC leader wrote on his Facebook page.
"We won the 16 parliamentary seats. We won the hundreds of council seats without shedding the blood of a single Zimbabwean nor for that matter injuring or assaulting a single Zimbabwean.
"Those who murdered and maimed hundreds of our people have no moral authority to lecture us on the essence of democracy."
Mugabe lost the first round of the 2008 presidential elections to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
"We were able to set up a Global Political Agreement (GPA) with some who had won elections and others who had lost," the veteran ruler said.
"Both professors for example, Welshman Ncube and Arthur Mutambara had lost.
But Ncube described Mugabe's outburst as "sad delusions by a man whose hands drip with the blood of Zimbabweans murdered by his henchmen in an attempt to reverse his defeat at the March 2008 elections".
"How someone who did what Mugabe did can possibly think he was elected is mind-boggling," the MDC leader wrote on his Facebook page.
"We won the 16 parliamentary seats. We won the hundreds of council seats without shedding the blood of a single Zimbabwean nor for that matter injuring or assaulting a single Zimbabwean.
"Those who murdered and maimed hundreds of our people have no moral authority to lecture us on the essence of democracy."
Mugabe lost the first round of the 2008 presidential elections to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Source - Southern Eye
