Tagwirei speaks on Presidential ambitions

SIFISO MAPURANGA

Business tycoon, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, said he is not angling to takeover from President Emmerson Mnangagwa and endorsed the push to have the Zanu PF leader lead until 2030, two years beyond his mandated second term limit.

There have been growing suspicion within Zanu PF that Tagwirei’s secondment to the party’s highest decision-making body outside congress, the Central Committee, was a first step towards his presidential ambitions of taking over from Mnangagwa.

Tagwirei’s entry into the Zanu PF political arena seems to have agitated some party members who have vowed to crush his “ambitions” with accusations that the business mogul was using money to buy support for his alleged bid.

But speaking in Bulawayo yesterday during the 2nd Edition of the Land Tenure Implementation Committee Programme at NUST University in Bulawayo, Tagwirei described as foolish claims that he wants to be President taking over from Mnangagwa.

“I am a businessman and why would l be looking for something that doesn’t exist?” he asked.

“Its foolish for me to look for something that doesnt exist? Why waste my energy when there is no vacancy? There is no vacancy for the presidency and the President is there up to 2030 so anyone who says that, there are foolish in their own thinking because there is no vacancy for the presidency,” he said.

“I am a soldier, a soldier who has been sent by the very President who is going to be there until 2030 and anyone who thinks there is vacancy should go and sleep and wake up again because there are dreaming,” he added.