A CCC member has accused independent candidate Shepherd Sithole of circulating a fake ZANU PF membership card to discredit his rival ahead of the Ward 1 by-election.
The row started after a purported ZANU PF card began circulating on social media, showing CCC candidate Mduduzi Sibanda as a member of the ruling party’s main wing. The card listed his membership number as 152049, under the Metro Peech branch and St Patrick’s polling station.
The image prompted questions online about how CCC could field a candidate who is allegedly a card-carrying ZANU PF member.
But Mbuso Siso, campaign manager for Sibanda and who also describes himself as the CCC’s National Interim Treasurer-General, has dismissed the card as fake.
He claims it was generated using AI and circulated by Sithole to tarnish the CCC candidate.
“It has been a shock for the CCC faction that calls itself the Blue Movement that we are fielding a local candidate, born and bred in Bulawayo, while the independent candidate was imported all the way from Kuwadzana in Harare,” Siso said.
“That AI-manufactured membership card does not even have a signature on it.”
He said the alleged fabrication shows how desperate their opponents are ahead of the 3 October by-election.
“It is unfortunate that the independent candidate is so desperate to manufacture a fake AI card,” he said.
“It tells you that the CCC party is a threat to the Blue Movement, while we all know the game of politics at this time is to smear other candidates, which is not mature politics practised by the desperate.”
By “Blue Movement”, Siso appeared to be referring to the yet-to-be-launched movement linked to former CCC leader Nelson Chamisa, who has adopted blue as his colour since leaving the party, suggesting Sithole is aligned with Chamisa’s camp.
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