The sacked Vice President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa has now fled the country as he announces intention to challenge his former boss and ally President Robert Mugabe.
The 75 year old former intelligence chief and was considered one of the potential successors to Mr. Mugabe who has been in power for decades.
The dismissed vice president recently clashed with the country’s first lady, Grace Mugabe over succession plan within the ruling Zanu-PF party
Mnangagwa was accused of disloyalty and plotting to topple President Mugabe. In a statement the former vice president told Mr. Mugabe that the ruling ZANU-PF party “is not personal property for you and your wife to do as you please,”
He has vowed to return to Zimbabwe to lead party members to challenge his former boss.
Mr. Mugabe on Wednesday told his supporters in Harare at a rally that “People were told that I will retire in March, but I did not.” He said Mnangagwa “Upon realizing that I wasn’t, he started to consult traditional healers on when I was going to die. At some point, he was told that he would die first before me.”
Mnangagwa who was also expelled from the Zanu PF party as a member said the party “is now a party controlled by undisciplined, egotistical and self-serving minnows who derive their power not from the people and party but from only two individuals in the form of the First Family,”
Mr. Mnangagwa, was one of Mugabe’s closest allies when he took power in 1980 after leading the fight against British rule.
Source: Africafeeds.com
