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'I cannot surrender power to Mujuru,' says Mugabe
04 Dec 2014 at 10:05hrs | Views
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday sensationally claimed that embattled Vice President Joice Mujuru expected him to surrender power to her immediately after winning last year's general elections but he could not do so because he had fought hard to storm into victory.
Mugabe was addressing the Zanu-PF central committee at the ongoing party's congress where Mujuru and her allies were reported to be absent after being implicated in a plot to assassinate him.
"We all thought we were united from top to bottom and that there were no machinations among us, but alas, we were deceived," he said.
"We did not know that as we went to elections in July, some of us from the top didn't want those elections at all."
Mugabe said the Mujuru camp thought that after winning the election, he would relinquish power for her to rule.
"I go to elections, fight an election and I am expected to bow to my deputy and say I won an election, you can take over?
"How can you do that when the promises we made to the people that made us win the July 31 election have not been fulfilled?" Mugabe said.
"That's when you realise that this country was fought for and you can't afford to sleep and dance with the enemy."
"Money, money, money, yes, money can give us joy, but it can create sorrow for us," he said.
Mugabe lambasted Mujuru for being power-hungry and said she should have waited to challenge him and not to plot against him.
"You start from the bottom, you were a nobody, you acquire a position in the central committee and then you are promoted to be in the inner core of the central committee, which we call the politburo, you are on the driving seat and it's pleasurable and you want to occupy that seat even if you don't qualify," he said.
"Wanting the position at the very top . . ."
Mugabe said that from the liberation struggle, people were chosen into positions and he was also chosen into the position of president after Ndabaningi Sithole left Zanu. Mugabe had been secretary-general.
Mugabe said that former Zanu-PF Mashonaland East chairman Ray Kaukonde sought for a sangoma and tadpoles, one representing Mugabe and the other representing Mujuru to perform rituals.
"One of the n'angas said look for two tadpoles of different colours one should be named Mugabe and the other should be called Mujuru and put them in water," he said.
"That's what happened.
"They were made to fight and if Mugabe's tadpole died then she would rule.
"Now if mine won against yours, it seems that is what happened then."
Mugabe said Mujuru wanted to force the apostolic sect led by one Mutumwa to bless her as ruler of the country, but the church refused, saying as long as Mugabe, who was appointed by God was alive, she would not be blessed to rule.
Mugabe said what he had shared on attempts by Mujuru to land the post was little compared to what he had heard.
He said the Mujuru camp had planned its structures, saying others were from the Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa camp and had already mapped a strategy.
Mugabe was addressing the Zanu-PF central committee at the ongoing party's congress where Mujuru and her allies were reported to be absent after being implicated in a plot to assassinate him.
"We all thought we were united from top to bottom and that there were no machinations among us, but alas, we were deceived," he said.
"We did not know that as we went to elections in July, some of us from the top didn't want those elections at all."
Mugabe said the Mujuru camp thought that after winning the election, he would relinquish power for her to rule.
"I go to elections, fight an election and I am expected to bow to my deputy and say I won an election, you can take over?
"How can you do that when the promises we made to the people that made us win the July 31 election have not been fulfilled?" Mugabe said.
"That's when you realise that this country was fought for and you can't afford to sleep and dance with the enemy."
"Money, money, money, yes, money can give us joy, but it can create sorrow for us," he said.
Mugabe lambasted Mujuru for being power-hungry and said she should have waited to challenge him and not to plot against him.
"You start from the bottom, you were a nobody, you acquire a position in the central committee and then you are promoted to be in the inner core of the central committee, which we call the politburo, you are on the driving seat and it's pleasurable and you want to occupy that seat even if you don't qualify," he said.
"Wanting the position at the very top . . ."
Mugabe said that from the liberation struggle, people were chosen into positions and he was also chosen into the position of president after Ndabaningi Sithole left Zanu. Mugabe had been secretary-general.
Mugabe said that former Zanu-PF Mashonaland East chairman Ray Kaukonde sought for a sangoma and tadpoles, one representing Mugabe and the other representing Mujuru to perform rituals.
"One of the n'angas said look for two tadpoles of different colours one should be named Mugabe and the other should be called Mujuru and put them in water," he said.
"That's what happened.
"They were made to fight and if Mugabe's tadpole died then she would rule.
"Now if mine won against yours, it seems that is what happened then."
Mugabe said Mujuru wanted to force the apostolic sect led by one Mutumwa to bless her as ruler of the country, but the church refused, saying as long as Mugabe, who was appointed by God was alive, she would not be blessed to rule.
Mugabe said what he had shared on attempts by Mujuru to land the post was little compared to what he had heard.
He said the Mujuru camp had planned its structures, saying others were from the Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa camp and had already mapped a strategy.
Source - Southern Eye
