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Conrad Mupesa Chinhoyi Bureau
ZANU-PF members should put aside differences that arose during the primary elections and focus on ensuring the party wins resoundingly in the forthcoming harmonised elections, a senior provincial member has said.

Addressing a rally in Mhangura at the weekend, Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial political commissar Cde Simon Solomon said members should support those who successfully filed their papers at the Nomination Court.

“All Zanu-PF supporters belong to the party not individuals,” he said. “Now that all candidates sailed through at the Nomination Court, we expect all Zanu-PF members to rally behind the party’s candidates starting with the President, Members of Parliament and councillors.

“I know you all had candidates that you supported during the primaries, but now that they are over, let’s look forward to delivering good results to the President and the party as we have always done as Mashonaland West Province.”

Cde Solomon implored party members to preach peace and love in their respective areas.

“We can never achieve any progress if the party is disjointed. Let us all work together in unity and love,” he said.

“And as you campaign for the party, I urge you to remain resolute and ignore any provocation from some immature opposition parties.”

He warned those who filed their nomination papers as independent candidates against de-campaigning the party’s official candidates and desist from using President Mnangagwa’s name to lure votes.

Such people, he said had undermined the party and should not claim to represent it.

War veterans in the constituency pledged to support Cde Precious Chinhamo Masango despite their preferred candidate falling by the wayside in the primary elections.

Makonde district war veterans chairman Cde Ronny Masango said war veterans would always remain loyal to the party.

“We were hated by the previous president for insinuating that his age had incapacitated him from discharging his duties as the leader of the nation,” he said.

“We only did this for the betterment of the party and the nation. As war veterans we will always remain loyal and campaign for the party’s candidates.”

Veteran radio disc jockey and war veteran Cde Grey Gambiza Moyo urged war veterans to be on high alert and safeguard land by voting for the revolutionary party.

Speaking at the same occasion, provincial youth commissar Cde Tapiwa Chitate said the party would introduce electronic cell registers by 2023, to stem some of the anomalies witnessed during the primary elections.

“The party is planning to create electronic cell registers that will be linked to electronic cards and only those members in the registers and possessing the cards will vote in future party elections,” said Cde Chitate.

“This way, the party will weed out rogue opposition members masquerading as party supporters. The party is seized with all the complaints of the recently held primary elections and the anomalies will be addressed by 2023 elections when we will use technology that allows only those in the E-cells to vote in the primaries.”