Zanu-PF warns against vote rigging

George Maponga Masvingo Bureau
The Zanu-PF national leadership has warned party members against rigging and using dirty tricks to land posts during the forthcoming elections to choose provincial executive committees vowing to take stern measures against those caught doing so. The revolutionary party is expected to hold elections on October 26 to choose new office bearers in the provincial executive committees for the main, women and youth wings ahead of the party’s national annual people’s conference to be held in Chinhoyi.

Zanu-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo last Sunday said provinces were expected to use correct registers for the voters’ roll of members who would cast their votes during the polls.

He said the revolutionary party would decisively deal with those who would try to rig the elections.
“I want to urge all party members to prepare for the elections to choose new provincial executive committees but at the same time I want to emphasise that we must use correct registers to come up with the voters’ roll.

“We do not want members who  use dirty tricks to land posts.
“I also want to make it clear that the party will take stern measures against those who try to rig the elections or seek to get posts using dirty tricks.

“This is Zanu-PF and we should never gamble with it,’’ he said.
Cde Moyo said as the party’s national chairman he would together with national commissar Cde Webster Shamu ensure that the provincial executive committee elections were done transparently and reflect the will of the people.

He said Zanu-PF wanted to hold a clean and transparent election to choose new provincial executive committees to run the provinces saying it was the only way the revolutionary party could be strengthened.

Zanu-PF’s commissariat department has already said district executive membership registers that were used in the June 2013 primary elections would be used as the voters’ roll for the coming provincial elections.

The provincial executive committee elections would precede the holding of Zanu-PF inter-district conferences in November before the 14th National Annual People’s Conference in December.