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'Gamatox' members invited to join People First
19 Apr 2015 at 09:59hrs | Views
FORMER Zanu-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo has urged Zanu-PF officials who are being vilified and harassed in the party over their perceived links to former Vice-President Joice Mujuru, to be bold enough to jump ship and openly join the People First party.
Gumbo, who is now spokesperson for the new grouping calling itself "genuine and original" Zanu-PF (1963), or simply People First, said party officials including Cabinet ministers and MPs who were being persecuted for their perceived loyalty to Mujuru should not continue to subject themselves to humiliation "at the hands of weevils".
Gumbo told The Standard that the current purges in Zanu-PF were pushing more officials and ordinary people to the Mujuru camp.
"What Zanu-PF is doing will certainly affect them, but we have said whatever they are doing they are pushing people to the side of Mujuru. It's up to the people affected to react. We hope they will be courageous enough to come out in the open," Gumbo said.
He said Zanu-PF purges had divided and caused disharmony in the country.
Gumbo, who is now spokesperson for the new grouping calling itself "genuine and original" Zanu-PF (1963), or simply People First, said party officials including Cabinet ministers and MPs who were being persecuted for their perceived loyalty to Mujuru should not continue to subject themselves to humiliation "at the hands of weevils".
Gumbo told The Standard that the current purges in Zanu-PF were pushing more officials and ordinary people to the Mujuru camp.
"What Zanu-PF is doing will certainly affect them, but we have said whatever they are doing they are pushing people to the side of Mujuru. It's up to the people affected to react. We hope they will be courageous enough to come out in the open," Gumbo said.
He said Zanu-PF purges had divided and caused disharmony in the country.
Source - The Standard
