Jonathan Moyo equates Nkosana Moyo to France's Macron
Macron, at the age of 39, became the youngest President in the history of France. Macron founded an independent political party, En Marche!, in Amiens on 6 April 2016 just a year before elections. He accumulated a wide array of supporters, securing endorsements from democratic movements the left, socialist, as well as numerous others - many of them from the Socialist Party, but also a significant number of centrist and centre-right politicians.
Moyo says Nkosana thinks he can win the Presidency as an independent candidate but unlike Macron he has no political base.
"Macron, not Macon & it's because he thinks he can win the presidency as an Independent candidate but unlike Macron he has no political base!"
Nkosana Moyo is considering challenging President Robert Mugabe in next year's elections, where he intends to contest as an independent candidate.
Speaking on the sidelines of a United States Embassy's Food For Thought discussion in Bulawayo recently, Moyo, who quit the government in a huff in 2001, said he would make a firm decision within the next few weeks.
"I am confirming that I'm seriously considering that (running as an independent candidate for the presidential post)," Moyo said while responding to questions from journalists.
"I am still considering it. I will inform the people in the next few weeks as to whether I will or not because if I do so, I want to see to it that this assists everyone. Our country can succeed if we elect people who can work for the people, not for individuals."
Revered prophet, Madzibaba Wimbo, who is acclaimed for having allegedly foretold in 1957 that Mugabe would rule Zimbabwe more than two decades before the nonagenarian came to power apparently prophesied recently that a new leader would emerge in Zimbabwe after next year's eagerly-anticipated national elections.
He said the new leader is not among the current favourites who are engaged in Zanu-PF's succession battles, but is an outsider, one of the sources at the secretive church told local journalists.
"The prophet said the person who will next lead Zimbabwe will have a 'foreign name' and that there will be great suffering in the country for some months. He also predicted that the army will intervene in politics," the source claimed.
Word on the streets is that if Madzibaba Wimbo is a shona and his prophecies are in shona then the name Nkosana is foreign to him and this might be a good indication that Nkosama Moyo is the one being referred in the prophecy.
Moyo said he had been approached by "some people to join one party or the other," but he refused.
Tell Macron--oops, I mean Nkosana & his backers that they cannot use the Zimbabwe Bird (a national symbol) as an election campaign symbol! pic.twitter.com/41FbS0wKMc
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) May 24, 2017
Jonathan Moyo received mixed reactions to his comment with a few agreeing with him while the majority who commented indicated that Macron won because of anti-establishment sentiment by voters.Macron, not Macon & it's because he thinks he can win the presidency as an Independent candidate but unlike Macron he has no political base! https://t.co/SMkjzzs2eZ
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) May 25, 2017
@ProfJNMoyo Got to agree with u there prof.For the time being no room for an independent. Zim and France politics totally different
— Kudha Chibwa (@wenyembe) May 25, 2017
@ProfJNMoyo The Solid like a Rock guy,perhaps speaking from experience,we might be underestimating the size of electorate disgruntled by both parties
— Logan Chasi (@ChasiLogan) May 25, 2017
@ProfJNMoyo Don't we all start from somewhere Mr Moyo? I don't believe Macron started with any political base. Ur logic is breathtakingly risible!
— Paul Z (@ZvomuyaPaul) May 25, 2017
@ProfJNMoyo Macron did not have any political base, he won because anti-establishment sentiment by voters.
— Charles Mutambo (@cmutembo) May 25, 2017
@ProfJNMoyo Tired of considering political bases now consider some rather than tt
— Lovemore Togara (@TogaraLovemore) May 25, 2017
