President Robert Mugabe has accused his sacked Vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa and his protege Joice Mujuru, who was the president’s deputy for 10 years until she was fired in 2014, of impatience to succeed him.
Mugabe who remarked that the route to leadership
was long and full of “pitfalls and death” while addressing supporters at the
headquarters of his ZANU-PF party in Harare also accused Mnangagwa of
consulting witch doctors and prophets as part of his efforts to succeed him.
“You should not try to say because the journey is long, then I should take a
short cut to arrive quickly. The road has lions. There are pitfalls. There is
death, beware,” Mugabe said. "There is no short cut to being the leader of
the people. Just as there was no short cut to our independence,” he added.
Mnangagwa who has fled Zimbabwe because of
death threats was removed from office by the government, opening the way to the
possible appointment of Grace Mugabe as the next VP. “My sudden departure was
caused by incessant threats on my person, life and family by those who have
attempted before through various forms of elimination including poisoning,” he
said in a statement on Wednesday.
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