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'Mutinhiri has no grassroots support'
29 May 2018 at 07:05hrs | Views
New Patriotic Front (NPF) interim leader Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri (Retired) commands no grassroots support in his former constituency and will not win in the forthcoming 2018 harmonised elections, Zanu-PF Marondera West candidate has said.
Brig-Gen Mutinhiri resigned from Zanu-PF and formed NPF with the backing of former President Mr Robert Mugabe. He was also the House of Assembly representative for Marondera West.
The leader of the embattled party has over the past weeks been plotting to use Marondera West Constituency as his springboard for political office.
Indications are that Brig-Gen Mutinhiri is grooming a candidate to battle it out with Spiwe Mukunyaidze.
In an interview with The Herald, Mukunyaidze blasted NPF leader for believing that Marondera West is his party's stronghold.
"He is a nonentity and a failure. If he failed to be with Zanu-PF, and today he stands thinking that Marondera West is his key to political office, then he is totally lost. Marondera West is not his constituency, Zanu-PF supporters do not waste time on failures.
"He thinks grooming an NPF candidate to contest for Marondera West will disturb us. Mutinhiri is daydreaming and his party should not participate in the harmonised elections," said Mukunyaidze.
NPF, in the past fortnight, has mooted joining the MDC Alliance headed by Mr Nelson Chamisa. Brig-Gen Mutinhiri is currently under fire from his party supporters who accuse him of abusing party funds.
Reports from Marondera West Constituency indicate that Mutinhiri is planning to bring a candidate in the seat to battle it out with Mukunyaidze.
Mukunyaidze said Zanu-PF party structures were solid and was ready to subdue any opposition party in the coming elections.
"He (Mutinhiri) should stop believing that he has following in this constituency and Zimbabwe. If he failed to develop one constituency and believes he is capable of being head of 210 constituencies, that is a pie in the sky," she said.
Brig-Gen Mutinhiri resigned from Zanu-PF and formed NPF with the backing of former President Mr Robert Mugabe. He was also the House of Assembly representative for Marondera West.
The leader of the embattled party has over the past weeks been plotting to use Marondera West Constituency as his springboard for political office.
Indications are that Brig-Gen Mutinhiri is grooming a candidate to battle it out with Spiwe Mukunyaidze.
In an interview with The Herald, Mukunyaidze blasted NPF leader for believing that Marondera West is his party's stronghold.
"He thinks grooming an NPF candidate to contest for Marondera West will disturb us. Mutinhiri is daydreaming and his party should not participate in the harmonised elections," said Mukunyaidze.
NPF, in the past fortnight, has mooted joining the MDC Alliance headed by Mr Nelson Chamisa. Brig-Gen Mutinhiri is currently under fire from his party supporters who accuse him of abusing party funds.
Reports from Marondera West Constituency indicate that Mutinhiri is planning to bring a candidate in the seat to battle it out with Mukunyaidze.
Mukunyaidze said Zanu-PF party structures were solid and was ready to subdue any opposition party in the coming elections.
"He (Mutinhiri) should stop believing that he has following in this constituency and Zimbabwe. If he failed to develop one constituency and believes he is capable of being head of 210 constituencies, that is a pie in the sky," she said.
Source - the herald
