Team Lacoste Manoeuvring To Have Oppah Muchinguri Nominated For Female Vice President

Team Lacoste, the Zanu-PF faction which is loyal to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reported to be plotting to have Minister of Water and Climate Change Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri nominated for the vice-presidency in the event that Mnangagwa is removed from his position. The Zanu-PF Extraordinary Congress is set to result in the Zanu-PF constitution being amended to have a woman as one of the vice presidents. This has resulted in speculation that First Lady Grace Mugabe is being prepared for this post.

The weekly publication, the Daily News on Sunday quoted a source as saying:

The idea is to swim with the tide but control the ship.

We are aware that our provinces cannot openly defy the president and so behind the scenes we are making moves to ensure that Muchinguri is nominated as the woman’s vice president. After all, there is no one who can claim to be more senior than her.

Maxwell Saungweme, a political analyst, said

Unless there is a clear show of defiance against the first family by a significant number of Zanu PF supporters, Oppah will not succeed.

She certainly has more substance and better political maturity than Grace, but winning the post would mean Zanu PF supporters openly revolting against Mugabe and his wife. Grace’s controversial PhD did not help her get a modicum of political maturity and she would not stand against a seasoned politician like Oppah if there was internal democracy in Zanu PF.

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