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It's Zanu-PF vs Zanu-PF in Harare East
07 May 2015 at 06:58hrs | Views
The High Court yesterday set the stage for a bruising electoral fight pitting two rival Zanu-PF parliamentary candidates when it allowed Terrence Mukupe and Mavis Gumbo to both contest the Harare East by-election on the ruling party ticket.
Justice Chinembiri Bhunu made the ruling after Mukupe had taken the matter to court challenging his disqualification by the nomination court and the recognition of Gumbo as the bona-fide Zanu-PF candidate.
Justice Bhunu said both Mukupe and Gumbo were proper candidates to represent the ruling party in the Harare East by-election to be held on June 10.
"Thus the nomination officer (Fiona Kurima) fell into the grave error when she attempted to resolve the party's own internal controversy by preferring one candidate over the other from the same party," Justice Bhunu said.
Since both candidates' papers were in order, the nomination officer had no option but to accept both candidates as duly nominated and leave the party to sort out its own mess and controversy according to its own legal instruments and devices.
Justice Chinembiri Bhunu made the ruling after Mukupe had taken the matter to court challenging his disqualification by the nomination court and the recognition of Gumbo as the bona-fide Zanu-PF candidate.
Justice Bhunu said both Mukupe and Gumbo were proper candidates to represent the ruling party in the Harare East by-election to be held on June 10.
"Thus the nomination officer (Fiona Kurima) fell into the grave error when she attempted to resolve the party's own internal controversy by preferring one candidate over the other from the same party," Justice Bhunu said.
Since both candidates' papers were in order, the nomination officer had no option but to accept both candidates as duly nominated and leave the party to sort out its own mess and controversy according to its own legal instruments and devices.
Source - newsday
