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Herald Reporter
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emerson Mnangagwa is accused of leading a faction by his opponents in Zanu-PF because of his resolute defence of President Mugabe and the liberation ethos, a party legislator has said.
Vice President Joice Mujuru has for some years been accused of leading a faction with recent revelation that together with her backers they were planning to topple President Mugabe at the forthcoming elective party congress.
Her allies say Minister Mnangagwa, who is also secretary for Legal Affairs in Zanu-PF, leads a faction.
Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Cde Justice Mayor Wadyajena said Cde Mnangagwa was being persecuted by VP Mujuru’s team for standing strong in defending President Mugabe and the party’s founding values.
He made the remarks while giving feedback to his constituents at Tsungai business centre at the weekend on President Mugabe’s address to war veterans, women and youths who gathered at the Zanu-PF headquarters on Thursday demanding that VP Mujuru be booted out for several transgressions.
VP Mujuru’s alleged crimes include corruption and seeking to topple the party’s First Secretary from his post just over a year after his landslide victory over MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai at the July 31 2013 harmonised elections.
Cde Wadyajena said everyone who was against corruption and defending President Mugabe and First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe was being labelled as belonging to Cde Mnangagwa’s faction when nothing of that sort existed.
Amai Mugabe, during her recent “Meet the People” tours, revealed that VP Mujuru leads a faction that was planning to depose President Mugabe from his post at the December congress.
“Now in Zanu-PF whenever you express your allegiance to President Mugabe, you hear people saying no you don’t belong to President Mugabe, but Cde Mnangagwa,” said Cde Wadyajena.
“You hear people even saying you are lying that you belong to Dr Mugabe (First Lady), you belong to Mnangagwa.
“Should we be afraid to walk with our President?
“Should we be afraid to walk with Dr Mugabe? (for fear of being labelled Cde Mnangagwa’s followers).
“That will not happen.”
Cde Wadyajena said Mr Tsvangirai at his party’s congress last week confirmed that they were working with some people in Zanu-PF to unseat President Mugabe.
He said that confirmed what Amai Mugabe said when she alleged that MDC was formed in VP Mujuru’s house.
VP Mujuru’s camp, he said, wanted to portray themselves as moderates who would have no problems doing business with white people.
“And when people like Cde Mnangagwa speak out they are said to be hardliners who are not liked by white people,” said Cde Wadyajena.
“And these people who call themselves moderates and Tsvangirai’s people say they are in good books with white people so they would want to form a Government on their own and fire everyone who expresses allegiance to President Mugabe.”
Cde Wadyajena said everyone who wanted to overthrow President Mugabe would be axed as has happened to Mashonaland West and Masvingo chairpersons Cdes Themba Mliswa and Retired Brigadier-General Callisto Gwanetsa respectively, as well as war veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda.
It also emerged at the meeting that villagers in one of the wards were discouraged from taking potato seed that Cde Wadyajena donated, while those who had collected were told by his political adversaries in the Constituency to throw them away.
Outgoing deputy secretary for Youth Affairs, Cde Edison Chakanyuka implored party supporters in the constituency to rally behind Cde Wadyajena since he was their MP.
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