via Mugabe disregards Grace’s ultimatum – Nehanda Radio Oct 26 2014
President Robert Mugabe allowed Vice-President Joice Mujuru to chair Friday’s Politburo meeting, disregarding demands by his wife Grace, who called for Mujuru to resign from her position immediately.
The move was interpreted by senior Zanu PF offices as a vote of confidence on Mujuru and a rebuke on Grace who had demanded that she be “baby-dumped” for alleged incompetence, corruption and plotting to remove Mugabe from power.
Sources told The Standard that Mugabe further distanced himself from Grace’s antics by meeting her privately before the meeting started.
Mugabe arrived at Friday’s politburo meeting around 11am and met the party’s secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa. He is said to have met Mujuru before she came to chair the meeting.
Mugabe joined the meeting later, sources said yesterday.
Politburo members told The Standard Mugabe was angry at outgoing Women’s League boss Oppah Muchinguri telling her to stop the “fire” she had started.
Muchinguri is the one who invited First Lady Grace Mugabe to take over the Women’s League, triggering a chain of events that resulted in Grace holding countrywide tours where she denounced Mujuru and other senior Zanu PF officials.
Mugabe is said to have also requested to see Information minister Jonathan Moyo. Sources said he wanted to lash at him for using the state media to attack Mujuru and other senior party officials.
Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo could neither confirm nor deny that Mugabe met Mujuru privately over the matter, but was quick to accuse Moyo of harbouring a destructive agenda warning that the party leadership was going to deal with him.
“I don’t know whether they met or not but it can be possible,” Gumbo said.
Asked why there were conflicting statements over what really transpired in the meeting, especially regarding Temba Mliswa’s fate as Mashonaland West chairperson, Gumbo said:
“Are you not aware of Jonathan’s hand. It is his mischief. What I said is there in the papers and the reporters are doing their best but it is his mischief. He is on a destructive mission. The leadership will however deal with that.” The Standard
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If Bob doesn’t deal with The Mazowe Declaration as he did with The Tsholotsho one, then he would have failed. Come Bob come. Even divorce that cheap woman! !
Mugabe’s hidden hand behind everything that happens … but the blame is always for someone else.
True Sekuru Mapenga, the old garbage is behind everything and now he is using Oppah as a scapegoat. Grace did not have one rally, she held many and in all of them she spewed bile and vitriol, why didn’t he call Oppah to stop her before much damage was done. The old man is blindfolding all of us and we are buying it.
Interesting. The First Lady was moving around in an air force helicopter normally reserved for the President, and air force pilots were flying her all over the country. Surely the President knew about this, and cannot ask Oppah to ‘put out her fire’ as if he had nothing to do with this. Can Grace just commandeer air force helicopters without the knowledge and blessing of the President, who happens to be commander in chief of ZDF? Grace was being picked up by the air force from State House every morning, and surely the President would kiss his wife goodbye as she took to the skies with Oppah. I think the President should also get involved in putting out the fire if thinks there is a fire that needs putting out.
The 90 year old geriatric is protecting Madam Deficit Gucci