'My wife has given me a note to say I'm talking too much...Down with Zanu-PF' says Mugabe

90-year-old President Mugabe reportedly suggested that he operated under the command of his wife.

"Mukadzi uyu arikundinyorera kuti ndataurisa. Ndozvandinoitwa kumba saka ndoteerera. Pasi ne Zanu PF (My wife has given me a note to say I'm talking too much. That's what she does to me even at home, so I must listen. Down with Zanu PF)," said Mugabe.

On Tuesday, Mugabe suffered another serious lapse of concentration damagingly blurting out that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai garnered 73 percent of the disputed 2008 presidential vote.

The spokesperson for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, Luke Tamborinyoka, vehemently asserted yesterday that Mugabe had not suffered a slip of the tongue, but had finally told the truth about the disputed 2008 ballot, as well as the equally controversial 2013 national elections.

Mugabe's embarrassing faux pas was made as he addressed security officials and war veterans at the Zanu PF headquarters, ahead of the party's politburo meeting on Tuesday.

Before he was corrected, Mugabe admitted that he and Zanu PF had not done well in the 2008 elections, going on to say Tsvangirai had garnered 73 percent of the presidential vote in the plebiscite.

"When we failed to, when Tsvangirai got 73 percent of the votes ..."