Zanu-PF drums up support for candidates
ZANU-PF has embarked on a series of rallies across the province this week to drum up support for the party’s council and House of Assembly candidates ahead of the forthcoming harmonised elections pencilled for July this year.
Besides campaigning for ruling party candidates in local authorities, House of Assembly and Provincial Council elections, the campaigns are also aimed at ensuring that the Zanu-PF presidential candidate President Mnangagwa wins resoundingly.
This follows the successful holding of primary elections to choose ruling party candidates for councils, House of Assembly and Senate elections in Masvingo province.
Speaking after a Zanu-PF Provincial Co-ordinating Committee meeting held at Victoria Junior School, ruling party provincial chair Cde Ezra Chadzamira said the revolutionary party had hit the ground running and was campaigning across all the 26 constituencies in the province.
Cde Chadzamira said the campaigns were being headlined by Politburo members from the province.
“The PCC meeting was held primarily to introduce all the ruling party candidates who won in recent internal elections to choose the party’s representatives in the Senate, House of Assembly, Provincial Council and councils.”
“The meeting (PCC) also marked the official start of campaigning ahead of general elections that we are confident of winning by a landslide.
“Campaign teams led by Politburo and provincial executive members are already on the ground campaigning for our candidates and the presidential candidate of Zanu-PF, President Mnangagwa,” he said.
Cde Chadzamira said Zanu-PF was pulling all the stops to record an emphatic victory in Masvingo.
“We are very happy that the majority of the campaign teams comprise both winning and losing candidates in the party internal elections, which shows that our cadres appreciate that Zanu-PF is bigger than individuals,” he said.
“We have some few exceptions of bad losers who are still nursing their wounds, but we hope very soon they will be in the groove, campaigning with others.”
He reminded party members to campaign peacefully and heed President Mnangagwa’s clarion call for non-violence to deliver a free, fair and credible plebiscite.
He said the party was confident of retaining all the 26 House of Assembly seats that it bagged in the last election in 2013.
The PCC meeting also saw Zanu-PF handing over campaign vehicles to ruling party teams that would spearhead campaigning in the seven administrative districts across Masvingo.
Zanu-PF successfully held primary elections here that claimed the scalps of several bigwigs with some new faces getting the nod.
Some of the high profile party leaders who failed to pass through the primary elections hurdle include Politburo member Cde Paul Mangwana who lost in Chivi Central and Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development minister Professor Amon Murwira who lost in Gutu North.