Mnangagwa Admits Zanu-PF Primary Elections Had Challenges

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has conceded that the just ended Zanu-PF Primary elections had teething problems. Party supporters, as well as critics, have also pointed to a number of irregularities in the primary elections which saw a number of candidates boycotting the elections alleging rigging.

Said Mnangagwa,

Whatever teething problems we have experienced so far – and we have noted them closely – we remain convinced that the democratic course we have started in the management of our party affairs is the correct one, indeed one befitting a party of our history, strength and our stature…. Whatever challenges we face in the interim must thus be in the direction of firmly rooting the democratic ethos which, after all, we planted in the land through our historical sacrifices as a party of national liberation. Far more poignant that the teething problems we have encountered in this internal selection project is the overwhelming turnout of our people who have registered their enthusiasm and keenness to participate in this process which, after all, they see as guaranteeing their successful election in the forthcoming plebiscite … Equally, our capacity to compete against one another in a non-antagonistic, comradely way has been demonstrated.

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