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Harare Bureau
UNDER fire Vice-President Joice Mujuru has all but confirmed her ambitions to topple President Mugabe by saying that she is ready to serve the country in any capacity and that she has the support of the people.VP Mujuru’s quest to unconstitutionally remove the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces was exposed recently, but she had not responded.
She finally made her response in a full page statement on Sunday that was exclusively published by the private Press yesterday.
To confirm her ambitions, VP Mujuru even had the audacity to start her statement in the manner of a sitting President when she addressed Zimbabweans as “my fellow citizens and countrymen”.
Said VP Mujuru: “Leaders are elected by the people to serve the people. I am an elected servant of people of Zimbabwe and as such, I can only serve this country in any capacity, when elected by the people.
“Unbridled ambition, misplaced self righteous adulation and hubris, offends the Lord and can only lead to the ruin of the person(s) and the party and therefore government.”
She signed off her statement by thanking “the people of Zimbabwe for your continued support”.
But Zanu-PF supporters in the provinces said yesterday that they did not support VP Mujuru’s “devious” plans to oust President Mugabe for her to assume the presidency.
“In Matabeleland North we’re behind President Mugabe and women in the province are behind the First Lady,” said provincial chairman Cde Richard Moyo.
“We don’t know where she thinks she is getting the support from because in Mat North we’ve nothing to do with her, which is why they did not even bother to advise us of their plans to assassinate the President.”
Midlands acting provincial chairperson Cde Kizito Chivamba said his province did not support corrupt and “dangerous” politicians.
“In Midlands, we don’t do that and we don’t know who she’s talking about when she says she has support unless if she means Rugare Gumbo and Cephas Msipa in this province,” he said.
“We don’t think she’s qualified to say she has support unless if she means from those two. We don’t support a corrupt person using money and other people to want to assassinate President Mugabe. We didn’t know that she’s such a cruel and evil woman.”
Masvingo acting chairperson Cde Paradzai Chakona weighed in saying: “We can’t support a person who wants to assassinate the President so that they get into power by force. We only support leaders who come through a democratic process.
“She has a number of charges against her, some of them of a treasonous nature as well corruption. She should first concentrate on clearing her name. In the absence of that, she has no moral ground to claim that she has support and that she wants to rule Zimbabwe.
“We don’t know who she’s referring to when she says she has support because in the case of Masvingo, we are the leadership, but we don’t know about the support that she’s talking about. It is just a political statement by a person who is desperate for power.”
Bulawayo acting chairperson Cde George Mlala said the province had booted out the executive that supported her in her quest to unconstitutionally remove President Mugabe.
“We’re not taking those people back and we’re not going to allow them to go to the congress because they have an agenda,” he said.
“We’re aware that they are sponsored and that they have a devious agenda when we go to the congress. We’re totally against unconstitutional means of removing the government. Our position is that the President was given a new five-year mandate to lead Zimbabwe, so why should he be removed.”
Mashonaland West acting chairperson Cde Ziyambi Ziyambi said: “We went to the elections and elected President Mugabe to lead the country. We’re barely half way so why should we be talking about another leader?
“Nobody in Mashonaland West supports her except rogue elements like Temba (Mliswa) whom they have planted. We don’t know where she’s getting those lies that she has support. We are 100 percent behind His Excellency, we elected him so why should we not allow him to rule?”
Acting chairpersons in Harare and Matabeleland South Cdes Christopher Chigumba and Rapelang Choene declined to comment, saying they had not read the VP’s statement.
Mashonaland East acting chairperson, Cde Phineas Chiota, who took over from Cde Ray Kaukonde yesterday, said he was yet to familiarise himself with the developments in the province.
Efforts to get comments from Mashonaland Central chairperson Cde Luke Mushore and Manicaland acting chairperson Cde Samuel Undenge were fruitless.
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