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<\/p>\nZANU PF has challenged former President Robert Mugabe to respond to allegations that he was funding opposition leader Nelson Chamisa\u2019s campaign to outfox his rivals ahead of the MDC party\u2019s congress scheduled for May.<\/p>\n
Addressing journalists after the party\u2019s politburo meeting on Wednesday, Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo said the burden was on Mugabe to respond to the allegations.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have not heard any response from the former President about that, whether it is true or not true,\u201d Khaya Moyo said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt is just rumours going around. But I am saying, if I were the former President, I would have responded to the allegations by now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Further asked whether or not Zanu PF had sought clarification from Mugabe over the issue, Khaya Moyo said: \u201cIt has nothing to do with Zanu PF, it is something to do with the MDC as we have heard.\u201d<\/p>\n
There have been allegations by Chamisa\u2019s backers in the MDC that Zanu PF was bankrolling the opposition party\u2019s secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora\u2019s campaign so he can edge Chamisa, who poses a serious electoral threat to President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the 2023 general elections after having lost narrowly to the Zanu PF leader in the July 30, 2018 elections.<\/p>\n
One of Chamisa\u2019s deputies, Morgen Komichi has claimed that Mnangagwa has panned out between $4 and $6 million to support revolt against the youthful leader, who gunned over two million votes and has refused to recognise Mnangagwa\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n
But Khaya Moyo denied his party\u2019s involvement in MDC affairs, dismissing allegations that Zanu PF was favouring a certain candidate in MDC.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur congress is in 2023, that is when we have a candidate and we know the candidate. How can we have a candidate for a party that is not ours? We don\u2019t pick candidate for other parties.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThey are at each other\u2019s throats, so where do we come in? We hear that some say the constitution says only four positions shall be contested at the congress, and then others say, no, no, no, it is all positions.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven their vice-president Elias Mudzuri has said we don\u2019t think this congress will come out well, the party might split. So where do we come in? Where does Zanu PF come in? We are very busy with our problems of fulfilling vision 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ZANU PF has challenged former President Robert Mugabe to respond to allegations that he was funding opposition leader Nelson Chamisa\u2019s campaign to outfox his rivals ahead of the MDC party\u2019s congress scheduled for May. Addressing journalists after the party\u2019s politburo meeting on Wednesday, Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo said the burden was on Mugabe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12],"tags":[38,113,88,31,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-5211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-policy","11":"tag-zanu-pf","12":"tag-chamisa","13":"tag-mdc","14":"tag-mnangagwa","15":"tag-mugabe"},"yoast_head":"\n