via Mutsvangwa faces axe – NewsDay Zimbabwe December 14, 2015
WAR Veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa’s political life is hanging by the thread after 127 members of Zanu PF’s Mashonaland West provincial co-ordinating committee (PCC) members signed a petition to kick him out of party structures accusing him of arrogance and disrespecting President Robert Mugabe.
BY NUNURAI JENA
Mutsvangwa attended the party’s PCC meetings by virtue of being MP for Norton which falls under Mashonaland West Province.
Party insiders told NewsDay yesterday that 127 of the 187 PCC members including some war veterans had signed the petition.
This comes shortly after Mugabe last week castigated “arrogant leaders” whom he accused of boasting of being “war vets”, an attack which apparently appeared as directed at Mutsvangwa.
“He is on his way out. About 127 members have signed the petition so far . . . the petition needed 95 signatures a simple majority,” a source said.
Mutsvangwa stands accused of publicly “attacking President Robert Mugabe appointees” who include national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere and Youth.
During the last PCC meeting held in Chinhoyi, Mutsvangwa allegedly had a verbal showdown with Zhuwao over Mugabe’s candidature in 2018 elections. Both Mutsvangwa and his wife, Monica, who was also suspended from the Women’s League and Manicaland provincial structures, could not be reached for comment last night.
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