Goche accepts card-carrying member status

Zanu-PF Politburo member Nicholas Goche, recently implicated in the plot to assassinate President Mugabe, yesterday said he accepted his new status as an ordinary card-carrying member after he decided not to tender his application for a Central Committee position.

Goche said he had no intention of leaving the revolutionary party despite the nasty assassination reports that had ripped his image. He did not indicate if he was still interested in his Cabinet brief where he is serving as the Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister.

Goche said his decision not to seek re-election was voluntary and was aimed at keeping unity in the party ahead of its 6th National People's Congress that is starting next week.  

Goche said his political career was not more important than unity in the party's Mashonaland Central Province.