No rift in Presidium: Muswere
ANESU MASAMVU
Information Minister Dr. Jenfan Muswere has refuted claims that there is a rift in the Presidium, asserting that Zimbabwe’s leadership is united and focused on achieving set developmental targets.
Dr Muswere was responding to rumour swirling in the market in the run-up to the governing party, ZANU-PF’s conference in Bulawayo.
The conference which runs up to Sunday is not an elective conference.
“There is singleness in unity, love, comradeship, and harmony in the Presidium and in government. Thus there is no discord in the cockpit, and that at the present moment, the government of Zimbabwe is seized with ensuring that poverty is alleviated and that there is a better future for the people of Zimbabwe, all rallying behind His Excellency, the President, Dr. Emmerson Mnangagwa, as he spearhead and shepherd the nation towards an upper middle-income society by the year 2030,” Dr. Muswere said.
He added: “The ruling party, ZANU-PF, will be conducting the National People’s Conference under the theme, Mechanise, modernise, and grow the economy towards Vision 2030. The conference is not an elective conference or an elective congress; the national chairman and Minister of Defence (Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri) has clearly spelt out the agenda theme and focus.
“His Excellency, the President, Dr. ED Mnangagwa, was democratically elected in 2023. The same applies in terms of his democratic election as the President and First Secretary of ZANU-PF, so effectively, there is no vacancy in the Office of the President in that the government and the party leadership are properly constituted in terms of the respective constitutions.”
The government spokesperson, Dr. Muswere, issued a warning against disseminating information that makes such claims.
“We remain unfazed by overzealous, misdirected energies of halfwits on social media who wish to sow seeds of divisions. There is no room for theatrics and manufacturing of fiction through imaginary mandates, and those bent on misinforming the people shall be dealt with in terms of the law,” Dr. Muswere warned.
