Mugabe envoy says Dabengwa fluffed VP appointment

Zapu President Dumiso Dabengwa fluffed his chances at being appointed Vice President when he left Zanu PF to form Mavambo/ Kusile Dwan and later Zapu, President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba has said.

In his recent column in the state run Herald newspaper under the pseudonym Nathaniel Manheru, Charamba said Dabengwa should not question recently appointed Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's credibility as he abandoned Zanu PF.

Dabengwa has been under attack for criticising Mphoko with Information minister Professor Jonathan Moyo recently telling the former Home Affiars minister to go to hell.

"And this is where I find Dabengwa despicable. All those years in the struggle, all that exposure yet he remains a rallying point for narrow nationalism. How sad! He simply fluffed his chances at landing the country's vice presidency that seemed inevitable, by moving out of Zanu PF for his Zapu," wrote Charamba in the column.

"Today he seeks to spoil chances for others who have stayed loyal to the cause, who have not opposed objectives of the struggle, principally the search for national unity. That's not leadership."