{"id":37801,"date":"2021-04-02T18:39:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=37801"},"modified":"2021-04-02T17:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T15:28:48","slug":"mnangagwa-to-appoint-phillip-valerio-sibanda-as-vice-president-claims-luke-tamborinyoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mnangagwa-to-appoint-phillip-valerio-sibanda-as-vice-president-claims-luke-tamborinyoka","title":{"rendered":"Mnangagwa To Appoint Phillip Valerio Sibanda As Vice President Claims Luke Tamborinyoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Luke Tamborinyoka has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is lining up Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Phillip Valerio Sibanda as Vice President to replace Kembo Mohadi who resigned in the wake of a string of alleged affairs with married security personnel.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published by Nehanda Radio, Tamborinyoka claims that he has been told by impeccable sources that Sibanda will not be extending his one year term which ended on Wednesday 31 March 2021. Tamborinyoka goes on to state that Mnangagwa wants Valerio Sibanda to take a \u2018cooling off\u2019 period ahead of his appointment as Vice President as it would not be appropriate for the ZDF Commander to \u201d trade his military fatigue for the party slogan in the same week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sibanda, according to Tamborinyoka, will be appointed \u201d into the presidium as Kembo Mohadi\u2019s replacement sometime this year or early 2022.\u201d Part of Tamborinyoka\u2019s article reads:<\/p>\n<p>If his contract has not been renewed, P. V Sibanda could yet be in the cooling off period before his appointment into the presidium as Kembo Mohadi\u2019s replacement sometime this year or early 2022. Mnangagwa is said to be worried that it would be impolitic to have PV Sibanda trade his military fatigue for the party slogan in the same week and is reportedly considering pasturing out his relative for a \u201ccooling off\u201d period pending his political appointment sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p>PV Sibanda is Mnangagwa\u2019s cousin and if and when he gets appointed to the Presidium, the tribalisation and villagisation of the State and the party will have come full circle. If Mnangagwa\u2019s mission was to villagise and \u201cclanitise\u201d the party and the State, then the mission may well have been completed.<\/p>\n<p>More: Nehanda Radio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Luke Tamborinyoka has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is lining up Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Phillip Valerio Sibanda as Vice President to replace Kembo Mohadi who resigned in the wake of a string of alleged affairs with married security personnel. In an article published by Nehanda Radio, Tamborinyoka claims that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":37800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,3950,445,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-37801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-phillip-valerio-sibanda","14":"tag-vice-president","15":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mnangagwa To Appoint Phillip Valerio Sibanda As Vice President Claims Luke Tamborinyoka - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Luke Tamborinyoka has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is lining up Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Ph ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mnangagwa-to-appoint-phillip-valerio-sibanda-as-vice-president-claims-luke-tamborinyoka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mnangagwa To Appoint Phillip Valerio Sibanda As Vice President Claims Luke Tamborinyoka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Luke Tamborinyoka has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is lining up Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Ph ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mnangagwa-to-appoint-phillip-valerio-sibanda-as-vice-president-claims-luke-tamborinyoka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-02T16:39:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-02T15:28:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/04\/img-6067380870f76.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mnangagwa-to-appoint-phillip-valerio-sibanda-as-vice-president-claims-luke-tamborinyoka\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mnangagwa-to-appoint-phillip-valerio-sibanda-as-vice-president-claims-luke-tamborinyoka\",\"name\":\"Mnangagwa To Appoint Phillip Valerio Sibanda As Vice President Claims Luke Tamborinyoka - 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