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Bulawayo Bureau
ZANU-PF Politburo member Dr Obert Mpofu on Sunday urged the party leadership in Matabeleland North Province to shun divisions and unite like their counterparts in Matabeleland South in order to win all the seats in 2018. Addressing members of the provincial co-ordinating committee in Lupane, Dr Mpofu said although the party won the majority of seats in the province, there was room for improvement if party leaders worked as a team.
Zanu-PF won seven seats out of 13 while MDC-T got six.
“Where there is no discipline the party always performs badly. We had problems of discipline in Binga where we suffered the biggest defeat.
It was the same in Hwange East and Hwange Central. Greed and indiscipline cost us in Hwange where some of our councillors caucused with the enemy and sacrificed the party for expediency,” said Dr Mpofu who spearheaded massive campaigns for the party across the province.
“Matabeleland South won all the seats because they were disciplined. The national chairman, Cde Simon Khaya Moyo, instilled discipline there. The problem is that some people want to win elections as individuals and do not want the party to win.
“We are happy that we won Hwange West and we now have a mayor there. That was a difficult constituency but we made the breakthrough because the leadership in that area worked together. In all the places where we won, the leadership worked together.”
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