'Deliver victory for Mnangagwa'

Manicaland Province should deliver victory for President Mnangagwa in the forthcoming harmonised elections, a senior Zanu-PF official has said.

Speaking at a provincial coordinating committee (PCC) meeting in Mutare on Monday, Zanu-PF national chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri said the province - which had many members who were implicated as G40 functionaries - should turn over a new leaf and overwhelmingly vote for the ruling party's leader.

"Manicaland played a significant part in the factional wars that rocked the party last year," she said. "And the province needs to deliver during this election. We need to make sure that President Mnangagwa wins.

"And the only way we can do that is if we are united. We need to approach the harmonised election speaking with one voice, with a common objective; so even as we do our primary elections, we must remember that we are still one people from one party."

Muchinguri-Kashiri said the province should be wary of people that were implicated in the G40 plot as their loyalty was questionable.

"Don't fool yourself that it is all in the past," she said. "Those people who were chased away from the party have joined hands with other political parties. We have people in the party who are working with those that left.
"Some of those traitors are here amongst us and we are watching them. They are receiving money to sell out yet they come and pretend to be part of us. We know it is happening.

"The tactics being employed by some candidates (to cheat during the primaries) will not help us. Please don't sell out our party."