The ruling Zanu-PF’s Youth League has endorsed President Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace Mugabe, as the right candidate to occupy the Vice Presidency ahead of the party’s December Extra Ordinary Congress.
The State-owned Herald - which has literally become the party’s trusted mouthpiece- quoted youth league secretary, Kudzai Chipanga saying, ”For avoidance of doubt, the Zanu-PF Youth League is fully behind the Secretary for Women’s Affairs Amai Dr Grace Mugabe in calling for the urgent removal of Cde Mnangagwa from the position of the Vice President both in the party and Government.”
”It has to be one who is acceptable and with unquestionable loyalty to the party and its principal the President Cde R.G Mugabe and more importantly one without ambitions to work against the President. The only person possessing such qualities is the leader of the Women’s League none other than Her Excellency the First Lady of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Amai Dr Grace Mugabe.”
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Political commentators have long argued that Grace Mugabe’s earlier elevation to lead the Women’s League was well-calculated to eventually land her Vice Presidency.
Grace Mugabe has been on a nation-wide campaign denouncing Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa with President Mugabe himself threatening to fire his deputy at a Bulawayo rally.
The First Lady told thousands of apostolic sect members in Harare that she would personally push for disciplinary procedures against Mnangagwa whom she accused of plotting to topple Mugabe from office as early as 1980.
