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Felex Share Harare Bureau
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday said attempts by Cde Didymus Mutasa, the party’s former secretary for administration, to reverse the outcome of the 6th National People’s Congress would come to naught.President Mugabe said this while addressing thousands of supporters who welcomed him at the Harare International Airport as he returned from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he assumed the chairmanship of the African Union.
Cde Mutasa, after failing to land a Central Committee position in Makoni Central district which automatically left him ineligible for a Politburo post, is leading a charge to sue Zanu-PF so that he and other loyalists of the former Vice President Joice Mujuru can be reinstated to their former positions in the party and government.
Mujuru’s loyalists, ousted for allegedly plotting to assassinate President Mugabe, claim the adoption of amendments made to the party’s constitution at the 6th National People’s Congress and their removal from office were unprocedural.
President Mugabe said Cde Mutasa was just finding it difficult to concede that he was no longer a leader in the party and government.
“In our party there emerged some lunatics who just shoot off their mouths but such people are found in society,” he said.
“The efforts will come to naught. How can such a senior party member, who spent years in leadership just jump up to say I want to sue the party leadership? Just because you lost, you think you’re superior to everyone else who won? In your own court?”
President Mugabe described as “rubbish” the move by Cde Mutasa to write to South African President Jacob Zuma, Sadc and the African Union making wild claims that the Congress was a nullity.
He said he had not come across the purported correspondence at either organisation.
He said instead Cde Mutasa should have been remorseful, conceded defeat and sought advice from other party cadres to rejuvenate his waning career.
“We never heard anything about his letters because it’s just rubbish,” President Mugabe said.
“He should have approached others and asked where he went wrong and sought ways of reviving himself. That’s how it is in the party, if you lose now you must work hard so tomorrow you can win. Don’t question why people have rejected you because you lose elections because of your deeds.”
Outsiders, the President said, had no role to play in internal party issues.
Turning to journalists, President Mugabe urged them to be developmental in their reportage and not to write false stories. He said the media had a role to play in nation building and economic development.
“Don’t be writers who always criticise. When they (journalists) fail to get something to write about they look for non-existing issues.
“We don’t want that. We want the truth, teaching our people the truth. I appeal to you journalists to be people with knowledge of policies happening in various countries. Reporting on the progress that we achieve and this must constitute new steps for us to make further progress until we achieve our objectives. That’s what we want.”
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