Source: ‘I’ll serve only one term if elected president,’ says Joice Mujuru | News24
Zimbabwean National People’s Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru has reportedly pledged to serve only one term if she is elected president in the upcoming elections.
Joice Mujuru
According to NewZimbabwe.com, Mujuru said this while addressing her supporters during a rally near Harare where she launched her party’s #JoiceIsMyChoice campaign.
Mujuru said that the current leadership had outstayed its competitors and had failed to achieve progress.
She said that the youth should be “given a chance to lead because they are leaders now not tomorrow”.
“Look now where the country is now; they (current leaders) have run out of ideas of how to take the country forward in the 21st century,” Joice Mujuru was quoted as saying.
Who will lead the alliance?
“If I win the forthcoming elections I will serve for one term (and then) hand over to someone young within the ranks to take the party to the next level. (But) he or she needs to be responsible with a credible record not those who think a political career is about being corrupt, abusing office and forgetting their responsibilities.”
This came as reports on Monday said that Mujuru was in talks with fired Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) vice president Thokozani Khuphe, to form an alliance ahead of the general elections.
Zimbabwe was set to go to the polls before the end of August.
According to NewsDay, a source said that both leaders were worried that their support base as individual parties was not sufficient to carry a majority vote.
“The leaders met during the women electoral convergence [summit] in Bulawayo and… agreed in principle that an alliance ahead of the polls would be critical, however, the sticking point is on who will lead the alliance,” the source was cited as saying.
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Madam, be reminded. To put it mildly, you have already served more than 37 terms. I have not forgotten that you once called Father Zimbabwe Dr Josh a senile old man because he had tried to reason with you to issue Clive Masiyiwa a licence to operate Econet.
If the choice is between spillblood and crocodile there is no hope for a better future.
Robert……… did you ever think of only serving one term?
Yes dear I did………
Really!
I only served on one term of 37 years
Ah…. yes of course, you never where outvoted.
That’s right, even 74% was not enough to get rid of me, the opposition still got less than me
But 100 – 74 leaves you only 26%.
Does it? … of course, but see….. I had to win, it was in my, oops… sorry, the national interest.
The problem for them was that their 74% had not the quality in the voters that my 26 had.
Ah of course, you discounted the sellouts, whites, disgruntled, intellectuals the politician opponents.
Exactly – all the riffraff
So, I served only one term, a bloody long term, but never the less only only one. Proud of that.
More tea dear, shall I be mother of the nation?
Go on you devil….