Opinion / Columnist
Mugabe's power plan to leave another Mugabe as president
13 Apr 2017 at 12:32hrs | Views
Game plan for President Mugabe is to handover power to his wife hence his continued bustardising the war veterans in his speeches that has become a norm these days whenever he gets the opportunity to do so.
An extraordinary Congress is inevitable this year come December.
He is playing a hide and seek game here and his plan is to first of all make sure that his wife is nominated as the women's quarter VP at forthcoming Women's Assembly sometime between June and August this year.
Once that is done, Ignacious Chombo will be instructed to write to all the ten provinces informing them to nominate the presidential candidate who will represent ZANU PF in the 2018 national plebiscite. Don't mind the endorsements at conferences.
Obviously many of these provinces will nominate and reaffirm their support for Mugabe.
When all the extraordinary congress delegates converge in Harare for the endorsement of the their preferred leaders, it is as clear as crystal that president Mugabe will be overwhelmingly endorsed as the presidential candidate for ZANU PF .
Since the one centre of power concept is still functional, the president will either keep Phelekezela Mphoko as VP or appoint another person from the ZAPU side and VP Mnangagwa if he is luck will be appointed National Chairman.
Zimbabwe will have two Mugabe's in the presidium . When we are about to approach election, two scenarios will take place.
1. Either President Mugabe will continue as president and go ahead to contest in the election with his wife and a former ZAPU member as his deputies.
If he wins as expected president Mugabe will then say aaah " honai vanhuwoye iyo nyika ndipo paingatongwe nava Mugabe vaviri here , haiwaka chiregai ini ndimbozorora " . Another alternative to this is either he will immediately retire himself and nominate his wife to complete the remainder of his term .
This is where Kudzanai Chipanga's dream will come true that ZANU PF needs another Mugabe to continue ruling.
In all these Mugabe games, VP Mnangagwa will have been sidelined and systematically sent to the periphery of the corridors of power.
However between now and then, VP Mnangagwa will be sold a dummy by the eversharp nonagenarian and made to believe that once he calls it quits he will leave power to him .
This is because Mugabe knows that without the express support of his ever loyal ally Comrade Mnangagwa, it will be difficult for Grace to be nominated VP women's quarter because the party constitution needs Mnangagwa's support in order to institute the necessary ammendments to support her appointment.
VP Mnangagwa will have been made to dethrone himself from power.
Kudzanai Chipanga is very much into this power matrix as a pony hence his call for youths to meet the president directly.
The president will meet the youths while marketing his wife as the next president.
This is expressly my personal view on the current situation in ZANU PF.
Igwee Musona batsiraimusona@gmail.com
An extraordinary Congress is inevitable this year come December.
He is playing a hide and seek game here and his plan is to first of all make sure that his wife is nominated as the women's quarter VP at forthcoming Women's Assembly sometime between June and August this year.
Once that is done, Ignacious Chombo will be instructed to write to all the ten provinces informing them to nominate the presidential candidate who will represent ZANU PF in the 2018 national plebiscite. Don't mind the endorsements at conferences.
Obviously many of these provinces will nominate and reaffirm their support for Mugabe.
When all the extraordinary congress delegates converge in Harare for the endorsement of the their preferred leaders, it is as clear as crystal that president Mugabe will be overwhelmingly endorsed as the presidential candidate for ZANU PF .
Since the one centre of power concept is still functional, the president will either keep Phelekezela Mphoko as VP or appoint another person from the ZAPU side and VP Mnangagwa if he is luck will be appointed National Chairman.
Zimbabwe will have two Mugabe's in the presidium . When we are about to approach election, two scenarios will take place.
1. Either President Mugabe will continue as president and go ahead to contest in the election with his wife and a former ZAPU member as his deputies.
If he wins as expected president Mugabe will then say aaah " honai vanhuwoye iyo nyika ndipo paingatongwe nava Mugabe vaviri here , haiwaka chiregai ini ndimbozorora " . Another alternative to this is either he will immediately retire himself and nominate his wife to complete the remainder of his term .
This is where Kudzanai Chipanga's dream will come true that ZANU PF needs another Mugabe to continue ruling.
In all these Mugabe games, VP Mnangagwa will have been sidelined and systematically sent to the periphery of the corridors of power.
However between now and then, VP Mnangagwa will be sold a dummy by the eversharp nonagenarian and made to believe that once he calls it quits he will leave power to him .
This is because Mugabe knows that without the express support of his ever loyal ally Comrade Mnangagwa, it will be difficult for Grace to be nominated VP women's quarter because the party constitution needs Mnangagwa's support in order to institute the necessary ammendments to support her appointment.
VP Mnangagwa will have been made to dethrone himself from power.
Kudzanai Chipanga is very much into this power matrix as a pony hence his call for youths to meet the president directly.
The president will meet the youths while marketing his wife as the next president.
This is expressly my personal view on the current situation in ZANU PF.
Igwee Musona batsiraimusona@gmail.com
Source - Igwee Musona
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