ED challenger pleads with High Court

BY TAFADZWA KACHIKO
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s challenger, Sybeth Musengezi has filed an urgent chamber application requesting the High Court to dismiss a joinder application by the Federation of Non-Governmental Organisations Trust (Fongo) and Goodson Nguni in a case he is challenging Mnangagwa’s presidential legitimacy.

Musengezi said Fongo and Nguni’s January 25 application showing interest in the case he is challenging Mnangagwa’s ascendancy to the Zanu PF secretary post and national presidency, would open floodgates whereby every adult Zimbabwean citizen and Zanu PF member would be eligible to join in the matter.

In his founding affidavit, Musengezi said: “I have opted for this application because in as far as I am concerned, the respondents are busy bodies far-removed from the relief that I seek in the main case, who, therefore, have no sufficient legal interest in the proceedings under case HC 568/21.

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