The leader of the Build Zimbabwe Alliance and presidential candidate Dr Noah Manyika has criticised the just-ended Zanu-PF primary elections. The elections were marred with irregularities and there were allegations of vote rigging, intimidation and violence. Manyika questioned how Zanu-PF will be able to conduct free, fair and credible elections when it cannot do the same in its internal polls. Speaking to the Daily News, Manyika said,
As far as the primaries held last weekend are concerned, we are hearing from top Zanu PF officials themselves that they believe their own processes where shambolic. Chris Mutsvangwa, for example, went to the extent of saying that the primary in Norton should be nullified because of the unconstitutional use of police officers as returning officers. He even went further to say the police were part of the rigging.
That is not us in the opposition saying that. It’s coming from them. One wonders if Mutsvangwa would say that if he had won. If all this is going on in Zanu PF, you can’t expect that they will be fair to the opposition. They are trapping people in poverty for political power and that is modern day slavery.
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