{"id":61040,"date":"2022-06-16T16:26:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T14:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mutodi-im-still-goromonzi-west-mp"},"modified":"2022-06-16T18:42:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:42:33","slug":"mutodi-im-still-goromonzi-west-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mutodi-im-still-goromonzi-west-mp","title":{"rendered":"Mutodi: I\u2019m Still Goromonzi West MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Controversial rhumba musician and ZANU PF politician, Energy Mutodi, says he remains MP for Goromonzi West Constituency until the end of the current Parliament term.<\/p>\n<p>This follows reports suggesting Mutodi had quit the constituency which is in Mashonaland East Province for his home province, Masvingo.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on his Twitter page, Mutodi said he is the current MP for Goromonzi until the end of the term. He said:<\/p>\n<p>Some aspiring MPs for Goromonzi West are behind a news headline titled, \u201cMutodi quits Goromonzi West seat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is false, the true position is that l will remain MP for the Constituency until Parliament is dissolved on the eve of next year\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mutodi, however, did not indicate whether he will contest the seat in the 2023 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The musician-cum-politician, once considered President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s political ally, lost his deputy ministerial post a few years ago following a series of careless posts on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Mutodi won the seat in the 2018 general elections and was eventually appointed Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services before he was fired on Wednesday, 20 May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>During his time in office, Mutodi clashed with his superior, Monica Mutsvangwa, the permanent secretary in the ministry, Ndavaningi Mangwana, and also with the late Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Busi Moyo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Controversial rhumba musician and ZANU PF politician, Energy Mutodi, says he remains MP for Goromonzi West Constituency until the end of the current Parliament term. This follows reports suggesting Mutodi had quit the constituency which is in Mashonaland East Province for his home province, Masvingo. Writing on his Twitter page, Mutodi said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":61039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,3654,10172,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-61040","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":"category-twitter","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-energy-mutodi","15":"tag-goromonzi-west","16":"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>Mutodi: I\u2019m Still Goromonzi West MP - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Controversial rhumba musician and ZANU PF politician, Energy Mutodi, says he remains MP for Goromonzi West Constituency ...\" \/>\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\/mutodi-im-still-goromonzi-west-mp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mutodi: I\u2019m Still Goromonzi West MP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Controversial rhumba musician and ZANU PF politician, Energy Mutodi, says he remains MP for Goromonzi West Constituency ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mutodi-im-still-goromonzi-west-mp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-16T14:26:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-16T16:42:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_16-62ab5d4c81eb3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"728\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"421\" \/>\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\/mutodi-im-still-goromonzi-west-mp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mutodi-im-still-goromonzi-west-mp\",\"name\":\"Mutodi: I\u2019m Still Goromonzi West MP - 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