Former Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has said endorsing presidential candidates four years before elections causes coups.
Speaking on Twitter, Moyo said during former President Robert Mugabe’s days presidential candidate endorsements would be made days before an election. Moyo was reacting to news the Zanu-PF Women’s league had also endorsed President Mnangagwa as the sole 2023 Zanu-PF presidential candidate. The party’s Youth League and the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) have also endorsed President Mnangagwa’s candidature for the 2023 presidential election as has almost every province. Said Moyo:
“ZANUPF WOMEN’S LEAGUE ENDORSE MNANGAGWA AS SOLE CANDIDATE” “SOLE 2023 candidate”? In the Mugabe days such ENDORSEMENTS would be seen a year, not more than four years, before a poll. A new dispensation, this? Don’t people learn? Such things beget coups!
Such is the rot in our country. How do you endorse someone who has not performed to expectations. He is barely a year in yet you say we want him in the future without any assessment. The sooner people realise that leadership should be based on merit the better. Blind following is dangerous and counter productive.
correct Observer wish you were Chairman of the War veterans and ZANU national youth Chairman
This is History repeating it self, what a dirty Zanu government.