Commenting on the high number of presidential candidates, MDC Alliance principal Tendai Biti said Emmerson Mnangagwa has lowered the standards such that everyone believes they can be president.
Speaking to NewZimbabwe.com, Biti gave an example of Elton Mangoma whom he said is not presidential material but would make a good MP. Biti also said he does not consider Mnangagwa to be Presidential material because of his involvement in Gukurahundi. Said Biti:
Part of the problem is that standards have been lowered and this person (Mnangagwa) has been so poor. Everybody knows they can do better. We need a PHD study on how dislocated and disjunctured our society is. That we can create so many candidates is a reflection of cognitive dissonance and also standards are so low; that a man can sit with his wife and she says ‘baba you are now President’. Look at my friend Elton Mangoma. He is not presidential material. He can make a good MP. You can’t just wake up; because your wife has given you a good massage and then you say ‘I want to be President’.
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