ZANU PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa last Friday begged Mutare vendors and flea market operators to rally behind party presidential candidate President Robert Mugabe in the forthcoming harmonised elections, promising to create a special fund to bankroll their projects.
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“We are banking on you,” Mutasa told vendors as he toured different sites in Sakubva.
“President Mugabe was with the President of Benin recently where the visiting President told us he did not have a political party in his country, but he always wins elections. He said he draws his support from people on the market and he always tries to befriend them.
“Can President Mugabe safely say that about you? You should vote for him and the challenges you told me here will be sorted out.”
Mutasa promised to refurbish old hostels and complete construction of market stalls in Sakubva suburb.
Mutasa said funds would be made available through Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s ministry to bankroll their projects.
Of late, Zanu PF has been targeting women, youths and churches as hunting ground ahead of elections likely to be held later this year.
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On Saturday, Zanu PF sympathiser and founder of Destiny for Afrika Network, Obadiah Musindo, pledged to dole out 5 000 residential stands to Mutare residents on condition beneficiaries committed themselves to vote for Zanu PF candidates.
In the 2008 harmonised polls, Zanu PF won only six out of the 26 contested parliamentary seats in Manicaland province.
