ZANU PF Bigwigs Fight Over Bulawayo Provincial Chairperson Position
ZANU PF party secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has castigated some ZANU PF officials who are already jostling for the post of Chairperson for Bulawayo province.
The post fell vacant after the death of Callistus Ndlovu last week who was buried at the National Heroes Acre.
While addressing Ndlovu’s funeral service at the City Hall in Bulawayo last Friday Mpofu berated those who were behind the surreptitious campaigns. He said:
In fact, there are a lot of issues that need to be resolved in this province and the national party leadership has assigned me to come here and look into these issues and I promise you we’ll fix the problems.
You find people buying party members, telling lies about others and creating confusion in the party just because they want a position. Let’s not concentrate on the wrong things.
A party insider who spoke to the Daily News said that they were aware of who Mpofu was referring to. Said the source:
For those who attended the annual party conference in Esigodini will testify that there are known members who were campaigning for the provincial chair post when Ndlovu was bedridden, so we know who Mpofu referred to when he recently warned some party members against jostling when the body was still to be buried.