IN THE PRESS

EVERYONE can feel 2018 fast approaching, the breeze is becoming warmer.

It’s all systems go. With 3 000 biometric voter registration kits in the country and about 40 000 people already registered to vote and waiting for Election Day, it’s becoming interesting on the political scene.

And Gwanda has become the most talked about place since VP Emmerson Mnangagwa took ill in that area. People just won’t let it go. So VP Mnangagwa says he wasn’t a victim of food poisoning. But that doesn’t rule out poisoning.

VP Mnangagwa, it seems, said what he said because of what his colleague, VP Phelekezela Mphoko had said.

VP Mphoko had issued his own statement earlier taking vicious digs at VP Mnangagwa, insisting no food poisoning had taken place.

But couldn’t all these exchanges have taken place far from the public glare? After all, we are talking about the nation’s Vice-Presidents here.

On several occasions, President Mugabe has reminded ZANU-PF leaders and ordinary members that the ruling party has got organs and procedures that deal with internal disagreements.

The media can never be a political party’s agony aunt. The media cannot resolve such disagreements for a ruling party.

And it can only get worse when frenzied tweeting kicks in and the itchy fingers of busy bodies and idle minds give the devil a workshop.

Meanwhile, many thanks to former MDC-T Kwekwe-Mbizo Member of Parliament Cde Settlement Chikwinya, who came in just in time to prove how foolproof the ongoing biometric voter registration process is.

Last week, Chikwinya tried to register twice.

He likely thought that if he succeeded in registering twice he would be able to steal an extra vote to “renew” a dying opposition. Or conversely that he would then scream to the high heavens that the system could be rigged.

Instead, Chikwinya proved that the system is water tight, and in so doing proved that he is indeed a real comrade who goes out of his way to show the high level of integrity obtaining at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.

Pamberi nemi Cde Chikwinya!