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Rutendo Nyeve, Sunday News Reporter
PREPARATIONS for the Cowdray Park star rally set for Wednesday are gathering pace with Zanu-PF incoming Parliamentarian for the constituency Professor Mthuli Ncube rallying Bulawayo residents to show appreciation of President Mnangagwa’s development efforts by attending the rally in huge numbers.
He said this while addressing hundreds of Zanu-PF party supporters in Cowdray Park yesterday. Prof Ncube who is unopposed in the constituency following the nullification of Citizens Coalition for Change candidate Mr Pashor Sibanda’s nomination said the rally comes at the backdrop of numerous developmental projects.
“The President’s rally in Bulawayo will be in Cowdray Park. I want to rally all the people of Cowdray Park and Bulawayo at large to show up in numbers and exceed the crowds that we saw in Masvingo going beyond 124 000 people.
“We should show that this is Bulawayo welcoming our President. Our President has shown us love in this region and look at all the projects that he has been doing. Look at Mpilo Hospital, Gwayi-Shangani Dam project which is going to bring water to Bulawayo, Nyamandlovu Aquifer rehabilitation and the Cowdray Park Clinic,” said Prof Ncube.
He said there were a number of developments that were happening in Cowdray Park that have been supported by the President.
“The President has ensured the road network is improved, free WiFi, boreholes and empowerment programmes which include training different groups of our society and residents here in Cowdray Park. He has shown us a lot of love and the same applies to the rest of Bulawayo.
“If you look at the developments at Nust where there is a whole complex done by the IDBZ working with private sector, it has shown us a lot of love by President Mnangagwa,” said Prof Ncube.
Contrary to the traditional way of conducting rallies in the city and countrywide, President Mnangagwa has identified areas that have a development gap in order to send a development message, something which Prof Ncube said had inspired his choice of Cowdray Park as the venue.
“The President is sending a message of development that this is one area in Bulawayo which was way behind in development and in the last few months we pushed harder to close the development gap. As such he is coming in to recognise what has been done because he sanctioned all these things and wants to see for himself as well what has happened.
“He also wants to assure people that what he has done in Cowdray Park, he can do more for the rest of Bulawayo. Cowdray Park is just the beginning and example and more will be done in the province going forward,” said Prof Ncube. — @nyeve14
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