Jabulani Sibanda warns errant Zanu PF officials

TENDAI BHEBE IN BULAWAYO

ZANU-PF chairman for Bulawayo Metropolitan Province and former War Veterans national chairman, Jabulani Sibanda, has warned errant party officials pretending to be working for the good of the movement while harboring other motives.

He said there is need for working together to mobilise for the party to wrestle seats from the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and the MDC-T that share seats in Bulawayo in both Parliament and council.

Addressing party affiliates in Bulawayo at the Zimbabwe International Exhibition Centre, Sibanda vowed to “liberate” all constituencies but warned those who claim to be Zanu PF but doing nothing to mobilise for the party.

“There are people who pretend to be party members when what they are doing is not party related,” Sibanda said.

“There are people who do not want to mobilise for the party yet they claim to be ZANU-PF. We must unite and win the next elections. So from today let us be serious and we must work very hard to win the elections,” he said.

In the 2018 elections, only Raj Modi won the Bulawayo South seat, becoming the second ZANU PF candidate to win a seat in the city in 18 years.

“In the cities especially in Bulawayo, there are no roads because you chose councillors without ideologies who take the residents’ hard earned resources.”

Sibanda is known for his massive campaign in previous elections where, as leader of war veterans, mobilised in rural areas though he was accused of using violence against opposition supporters.

“I am liberating all constituencies in the next general elections,” Sibanda said.

“For us, especially in Bulawayo it’s a must and we should be serious in whatever we are doing. I am from two mobilisation meetings in Pumula and EMakhandeni high density suburbs doing it for the party. We are mobilising the party to win elections. Every affiliate of the party must know that they are taking responsibility not only to defend the revolution but to mobilise the defence of the revolution,” he said.

“And this could only be done by winning an election. If our party cannot win an election there is no other force that can stand and defend our revolution.”

Sibanda said people in urban areas were suffering because of electing officials who lack ideology.