Some lawyers have claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s lead lawyers in the case against Nelson Chamisa gave him the wrong interpretation of how days are counted. This comes after Chamisa filed a challenge against the presidential results at the Constitutional Court on Friday. Zanu-PF has said that the challenge should be dismissed because it was filed after out of time and served at the wrong address. Zanu-PF has assembled a 12-man “dream team” which includes Zanu-PF’s secretary for legal affairs Paul Mangwana and Lewis Uriri.
Law lecturer Valentine Mutatu said,
If Mangwana and company are correct in their counting of days, if the application was served on Friday the 10th, then the last day of filing opposing papers was the 13th, but that cannot be because the courts, which don’t count the weekends and holidays, are closed. The court can, therefore, not count a day in which it is not possible for you to file papers.
Another lawyer who spoke to NewsDay but declined to be named said,
It’s clear that the President is being misled by his legal team. He needs to replace them, especially (his point persons). If you look at the history of some of them, besides the case where they are a litigant, you won’t find any case they argued and won that’s worth nothing. The one time they attempted to go to the ConCourt recently ended in a disaster. They misfired procedure.
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I believe ED is also a very competent lawyer who knows who is best for this job. ndiri kuona zvangu kuti Chamisa arikungoita procedure yekuzadzisa mashoko ake ekunyepa kuti ndiye anofanira kuhwina even asina a strong support base than ina ED saka its just a delayed match
Zanu Zanu. We had enough of your rigging hamunyari here?We need change how many years we are fade up of you.You destroyed our country. Hatichakudii hedu ndicho chokwadi don’t force people kukuda. Mnangagwa whats the different na Bob dai asiri Grace akakudzinga dai uri muhakwa maBob. Don’t think we are fool ,we are educated. We need to come back home. Enda unozorora iwe 75 yrs is for retirement .We don’t want you wakafanana naBob maidya mese.