Source: ‘It was me who urged Mugabe to resign,’ says wife Grace | News24
Harare – Former first lady Grace Mugabe says she convinced her husband to stand down after last year’s military takeover when he was determined not to, it has emerged.
Grace Mugabe made the claim during a surprise press conference her husband gave at the couple’s Harare mansion this week.
‘It was me who urged him to resign’
“Baba (father) did not want to put pen to paper, in fact it was me who urged him to resign for the sake of peace because Baba did not want to,” Grace Mugabe said, in comments carried by the private NewsDay.
Mugabe confirmed his wife’s role in helping to persuade him. “Under the circumstances I didn’t want to step down because I felt it was not proper and I insisted that everything was done unconstitutionally,” the 94-year-old said.
‘Anarchy and bloodshed’
He said he was willing to face impeachment proceedings by MPs from his party and the main opposition but his wife had convinced him that “the process would take long and in between, the country could plunge into anarchy and bloodshed.”
Mugabe told reporters that last November’s takeover was a “military coup” – a phrase his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa has done everything to avoid.
Mnangagwa’s office has shrugged off the criticism, insisting on Friday that while Mugabe was free to express himself the country had “moved on”.
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Baba this and baba that – please just go away you failures. 37 years of failure – good bye and good riddance to you Comrade Robert and to you too marujata Grace
It must be pain for these 2 as they are now just Mr & Mrs Muckrakers and nobody is taking them seriously. It does not matter that this, or that happened; The Mugabe period is over – ended – finished. He could have made a success of it but did differently, so it’s now pay back time. He was a total failure in every respect. I think for his own good he should shut up and accept that the gravy train has been derailed, legally or otherwise. If he really wants to help stop painting himself as an injured animal, for the good of you all the last thing he should be promoting is a rise to rusty Sainthood.
Surprise, surprise,she said baba was going to rule even when he was dead!
He is politically – so she was correct.
Whether the devil will permit his private phone line to be used after “The day of reckoning” has still to be seen.
‘It was me who urged Mugabe to resign,’ says wife Grace…
Well, for a big change, she is telling the truth.
Has she not been the one to urge him to do anything, and everything, in those many past sad years?
But certainly from the time that she urged that foolish old goat into her bed…
and sadly neglected her tying duties forever.