Women’s League campaigns for ED Cde Happiness Nyakuedzwa

Samuel Kadungure Mutare Bureau
ZANU-PF Manicaland Women’s League is mobilising its structures to ensure they resoundingly vote for President Mnangagwa in harmonised elections this year. The group’s key selling points hinge on the creation of a new and unfolding democracy and transformation of the economy.

Provincial chairperson Cde Happiness Nyakuedzwa said their aim was to make women’s voices heard in the country’s democratic process and influence the outcome of the harmonised elections in President Mnangagwa’s favour.

Cde Nyakuedzwa said Zanu-PF needed women’s support to ensure a massive win.

“We have drawn up a programme to mobilise our structures at cell, constituency, district and provincial levels to vote for President Mnangagwa and the entire Zanu-PF line-up,” she said.

Cde Nyakuedzwa said all losing candidates should put people before self-serving interests and avoid a repeat of 2008’s “Bhora musango”, project, which saw the party putting up its worst performance in Manicaland following the imposition of candidates.

Though she lost her bid for Makoni South to Cde Misheck Mataranyika, Cde Nyakuedzwa said they should campaign and drum up grassroots support for the party.

“I am one of them. I lost in Makoni South and I should lead by example. I urge all those who supported me to join me in congratulating him (Mataranyika) and find ways to come together, bridge our differences and help defend Zanu-PF.

“Losing candidates should pick themselves up and play a key role as trusted and loyal cadres. We should remain relevant and prove that we are part of the ongoing political discourse,” said Cde Nyakuedzwa.

“We lost because more people voted for the other candidates. Let us acknowledge our opponents’ victory and the will of the people. The opponents should have losers’ support. It is not about individual interests but the interests of the electorate. No matter who they are; there are essentially two options in an election winning or losing.

“History tends to pay attention to the winner and relegates the loser to an afterthought. We should not turn our backs on the party. That is disloyalty. Loyalty is the political aspirin that heals the pain of losing. We should look up, pick up the pieces, deliver the goods for Zanu-PF and talk later,” she said.

Cde Nyakuedzwa said the fate of Zanu-PF was in their hands and the party should also come up with a programme to rehabilitate and empower women candidates that lost in the just ended primary elections.

“We prefer to kill the animal first and demand our share of the spoils. For now we should focus on issues that unite than divide Zanu-PF. The thrust should be to ensure Zanu-PF wins the forthcoming elections resoundingly,” she said.

Cde Nyakuedzwa challenged the winning candidates to start implementing what they promised the electorate.

“Go on the ground and start implementing what you promised the electorate. Zanu-PF thrives on deliverables, not tall promises,” she said.

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