Military will accept Tsvangirai if he wins in 2018 because they accepted his win in 2008 says Didymus Mutasa

Speaking to Daily News, former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa revealed that security chiefs will accept MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai if he wins in 2018 because they accepted his win in 2018.

Said Mutasa:

When Tsvangirai won the elections in 2008, he left the country soon after, even though the military had accepted his win. I am sure that the military will accept his victory again this time. The military respect and will respect the will of the people. In 2008, people spoke and Tsvangirai disappeared. At that time, I was the head of the security establishment and I am quite sure that nothing would have happened to Tsvangirai had he stayed. We have rules and the security will not change our laws. Our Constitution is very clear on this.

Mutasa’s comments come after Defence Forces commander Constantino Chiwenga’s comments where he referred to Zanu-PF as our party. In the past the late General Vitalis Zvinavashe, who addressed a media conference just before the 2002 presidential elections insinuated that the military will not accept Tsvangirai as president.

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