Opinion / Columnist
Muduvuri risking all to 'protect' Mugabe's throne - but at what price to the nation
06 Jun 2016 at 06:38hrs | Views
Former Zanu-PF central committee member, Jimaya Muduvuri, tells war veterans to stop campaigning for VP Mnangagwa to succeed Mugabe because that is divisive.
"If Mugabe is alive, then Zanu-PF is solid. I grew up in Zanu-PF and I won't be intimidated. If they think I will fear anything then they are wasting their time. I love my president and his wife. I am their child and I cannot be intimidated here in Zimbabwe as long as President Mugabe is there," he said.
"We will only start to fear when he is gone. I am trying to protect my father's throne and this is why I asked Vice-President Mnangagwa about those rumours that he wants to take over. I am glad he said he has no such plans."
If President Mugabe had not created this de facto one-party cum one-man dictatorship to gratify his insatiable greed for political power and looted wealth, which is the root cause of the economic meltdown and political chaos we are facing today; then the nation would have nothing to fear now or when he is gone! It is naïve and gullible people Muduvuri who love burying their head in the sand like an ostrich who have help tyrants like Mugabe land the nation in this mess!
If Muduvuri opened his eyes for once in his life then he would see that it is President Mugabe himself and his wife Grace who are the divisive forces in Zanu-PF.
Muduvuri should ask himself who falsely accused former VP Joice Mujuru of plotting to assassinate President Mugabe and then became hysterical about having her "baby dumped" out of Zanu-PF. It was none other than Grace Mugabe herself.
It is all very well Muduvuri asking VP Mnangagwa to confirm he had no plans to succeed President Mugabe; why has he not asked Grace the same question. And just to make sure she does not get away with some blatant lie; he must ask her to explain the real purpose of her "meet the people" rallies if it was not to de-campaign VP Mnangagwa.
Zanu-PF is imploding and, unfortunately, is dragging the whole nation into the abyss with it.
The economic meltdown and political chaos are causing untold human suffering and many lives are being lost unnecessarily; very survival of the nation is now at stake.
"I am trying to protect my father's throne," Muduvuri tells us! It is sickening that people like Muduvuri should continue to put the selfish interests of a murderous tyrant above the very survival of the nation as millions of ordinary Zimbabweans' very lives are now the price we are now paying for Mugabe's continued rule!
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because of naïve and incompetent leaders like Muduvuri who have put their own selfish interests and those of a murderous above the very survival of the nation. We want regime change and get rid of the tyrant Mugabe and all his cronies, apologists, the lot!
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Patrick Guramatunhu <patguramatunhu@gmail.com>
Source - zsdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk
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