Kasukuwere accused of imposing candidate

Zanu-PF factional fights spilled into the High Court yesterday when Harare East aspiring parliamentary candidate Mavis Gumbo and acting provincial chairman Godwills Masimirembwa accused national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere of imposing Terrence Mukupe as the party's sole candidate for the constituency.

In their joint heads of argument filed before Justice Chinembiri Bhunu, Gumbo and Masimirembwa also accused Kasukuwere of acting unilaterally without consulting other members of the party's national elections directorate.

It is a fallacy and complete misdirection on the facts for the appellant (Mukupe) to allege that his nomination was accepted and/or approved as compliant with the law by the 2nd respondent (nomination court presiding officer Fiona Kurima), Gumbo and Masimirembwa said.

These objections against appellant are that he (Mukupe) has not been in the district structures for a period of five years preceding the primaries.

At the primaries his name was imposed and he corruptly used money and vote buying and resorted to intimidation.