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Chinhoyi Bureau
Zanu-PF has finished selecting candidates for the forthcoming harmonised elections and is bracing for an emphatic victory, the revolutionary party’s Mashonaland West provincial chairman Cde Ziyambi Ziyambi has said.

He said the party’s victory would be anchored on current efforts to transform Zimbabwe, which have seen positive re-engagement with the world.

Addressing Zanu-PF members at Muchiedza Primary school in Makonde district at the weekend, Cde Ziyambi called on all supporters to pull together for a resounding victory for President Mnangagwa and the party.

“We are through with the selection process of candidates and we now call on everyone to come together and work for a Zanu-PF victory and an unequivocal mandate for President Mnangagwa,” he said.

“Whatever misgivings people may have after the primary elections should come to an end so that we focus on ensuring that Zanu-PF and its Presidential candidate Cde Mnangagwa win. No one is bigger than the party that they can say it will lose because they have lost in the primary elections.”

The meeting also saw successful candidates from Makonde constituency and those who lost appearing in public together.

The House of Assembly, Senatorial, council and women’s quota candidates pledged to work together for the success of the party.

Cde Ziyambi urged supporters to campaign in peace.

“Let us go and vote in peace to shame our detractors. We are going to show that Zanu-PF is strong in Mashonaland West province,” he said.

He said people should be wary of emerging political parties which are using misinformation to confuse them in a bid to engineer a Zanu-PF loss.

“Do not follow everyone who comes along claiming to represent your interests when it is clear that most of them are transient in nature and their only motivation is to derail Zanu-PF. The party is strong and it will win resoundingly,” he said.

Meanwhile, in Mhangura constituency, Zanu-PF provincial deputy secretary for legal affairs Cde Christopher Shumba commended the party candidates for accepting the outcome of the recently held primary elections.

He said the candidates — the winners and losing candidates — had shown an act of political maturity needed for the party to move on.

“Right now we should focus on making sure that Team Zanu-PF wins resoundingly. Everyone is now mandated to work hard to make sure that President Mnangagwa wins the election to fulfil his efforts of retaining Zimbabwe to its former glory.”

Cde Shumba said party supporters who had their preferred candidates should rally behind the winning candidates regardless of their differences.

Zanu-PF provincial executive council member, who also contested in the Mhangura constituency primaries, Cde Misheck Nyarubero pledged to work with the winning candidate Cde Precious Chinhamo Masango.

“The just ended primary elections were races aimed at coming up with one winning candidate. We should all bury the hatchet and move on for the benefit of the party.

“It won’t solve any problem to keep on complaining and contesting the poll outcome as the more time we spend fighting is the more time we are giving Chamisa to strategise and regroup.

“Let’s work together to ensure that the President and the party win with a wider margin in the general harmonised elections.”

Cde Chinhamo Masango will represent the party in the general elections.

The meetings during the weekend saw Central Committee members, war veterans and leaders from all party structures addressing similar meetings in all the constituencies in Mashonaland West.