Sikhanyiso Ndlovu accepts defeat in Pelandaba - Mpopoma

ZANU-PF Politburo member, Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu who lost in the just ended primary elections has accepted defeat and pledged to support the winner - a young Bulawayo businessman - Joseph Tshuma, state media reported Friday.

He said:
"I have been working in Mpopoma for a long time and I have developed the area for a long time.  My concern is development for the people, so the development projects that I have been supporting in the constituency will continue. We have youth projects, women's projects and so on.  I am a patron of many schools and also of the Better Schools Programme, Mpopoma Cluster.  Tomorrow (today) I will commission a bus at a school in Mpopoma. I am not doing that so that people can vote for me, but for the people.

"On the outcome of the election, I must say it's our National Election Directorate and Politburo which agreed on the script that the outcome of primaries must be accepted and that those who don't make it must support the winner. I pledge my support to Joe.  I telephoned him to congratulate him as soon as the result was announced. If you ask him, he will tell you that.  What is important is for the party to win the presidential election, to win the majority in parliament."

Dr Ndlovu said he has supported many projects in the constituency out of love and personal sacrifice.
"Someone asked me a stupid question that 'are you going to remain in politics or you are quitting?'" he said.

"I told him that I will always be in politics. Politics is in  my bone. I am politics myself. To me politics is an assignment to assist the people. They were not asking   these   stupid   questions   when I was in the bush during the war but now. So I congratulate Joe. He is coming up in the party and I am ready to support him."