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One million man march not targeting VPMnangagwa - Zanu PF youth league
10 Apr 2016 at 04:14hrs | Views
The planned Zanu-PF Youth League planned one-million march is not targeted at humiliating Vice - President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the party has claimed.
Zanu-PF National Deputy Secretary for Youth Affairs Kudzai Chipanga on Saturday said the reports are misleading.
"Some sections of the media are misleading people by reporting that the march was organised to push for so and so to be booted out of the party.
"We can never gather one million people to boot out just one person. There has never been a person here in Zimbabwe who was voted for by one million people other than President Mugabe. We can't parade one million people for anyone else. President Mugabe is the only person we will gather one million people for, not anyone else.
"Let me set the record straight, the march is meant for youths to meet their President and for the people of Zimbabwe to show their support for President Mugabe. We want to show the international world and the private media that we support President Mugabe and we are fully behind him," he said.
Last week a local daily, quoting "well-placed sources" alleged that although the march has been organised under the guise of the party's women and youth leagues to show support for President Mugabe, its real target was VP Mnangagwa.
The paper claimed that the march was organised by "ambitious Young Turks, known as the Generation 40 group," and would culminate into a massive demonstration against the "embattled Midlands godfather".
Zanu-PF National Deputy Secretary for Youth Affairs Kudzai Chipanga on Saturday said the reports are misleading.
"Some sections of the media are misleading people by reporting that the march was organised to push for so and so to be booted out of the party.
"Let me set the record straight, the march is meant for youths to meet their President and for the people of Zimbabwe to show their support for President Mugabe. We want to show the international world and the private media that we support President Mugabe and we are fully behind him," he said.
Last week a local daily, quoting "well-placed sources" alleged that although the march has been organised under the guise of the party's women and youth leagues to show support for President Mugabe, its real target was VP Mnangagwa.
The paper claimed that the march was organised by "ambitious Young Turks, known as the Generation 40 group," and would culminate into a massive demonstration against the "embattled Midlands godfather".
Source - Sunday News
