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Zanu-PF begs rebels to withdraw
12 Jul 2013 at 07:00hrs | Views
A high-powered Zanu-PF delegation has begged party "rebels" to withdraw from contesting as independents in the general elections and support party-endorsed candidates who won primaries despite widespread complaints of rigging and voting irregularities, it has emerged.
The team led by the party's secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, director of the commissariat department Retired Air Vice- Marshal Henry Muchena and officials from the President's Office have since met Daniel Garwe (Murehwa North), Marian Chombo (Zvimba North) and prominent lawyer Jonathan Samkange (Mudzi South) to ask them to withdraw from parliamentary polls.
Sources said the candidates refused to bow to pressure and insisted that they will contest the polls as independents.
In Bikita West, businessman Munyaradzi Kereke, who was expelled from the party on Wednesday by the politburo, will run as an independent against the party's preferred Elias Musakwa.
The team led by the party's secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, director of the commissariat department Retired Air Vice- Marshal Henry Muchena and officials from the President's Office have since met Daniel Garwe (Murehwa North), Marian Chombo (Zvimba North) and prominent lawyer Jonathan Samkange (Mudzi South) to ask them to withdraw from parliamentary polls.
In Bikita West, businessman Munyaradzi Kereke, who was expelled from the party on Wednesday by the politburo, will run as an independent against the party's preferred Elias Musakwa.
Source - independent
