Zimbabwe’s former president,
Robert Mugabe, on Sunday, declared that he would not vote for his successor,
Emmerson Mnangagwa in the presidential election.
“For the first time ever we have
now a long list of aspirants to power,” Times quoted Mugabe as saying at his
Blue Roof private residence in Harare.
“I cannot vote for those who
tormented me… I will make my choice among the other 22 (candidates) but it is a
long list.”
Zimbabwe goes to the polls Monday
in its first election since Mugabe was forced to resign last November after 37
years in power.
President Mnangagwa, Mugabe’s
former ally in the ruling ZANU-PF party, faces opposition leader Nelson Chamisa
of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in a landmark vote for the southern
African nation.
In his only previous press
interview since his fall, Mugabe admitted in March that “some errors were done”
under his authoritarian rule, and said he thought his country was now “topsy
turvy”.
“I never thought (Mnangagwa)
would be the man who turned against me,” he added.
President Mnangawa, in June, blamed
an assassination attempt at a political rally on a faction led by Grace Mugabe,
wife of ousted president, Robert Mugabe.
The attack killed two people and
injured 49. Both vice-presidents were slightly injured in the blast, as were
several other top officials in the ruling Zanu-PF party.
Manangagwa said the attack had
been “calculated to achieve a bloodbath” and destabilise the ongoing electoral
programme.
“My hunch without evidence is
that the people who aggrieved by the new dispensation… are the G40 so that is
the logical conclusion,” Mnangagwa told the BBC.
“I think this is a political
action by some aggrieved persons by the current democratic dispensation in the
country,” he added.
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