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George Maponga Masvingo Bureau
The ruling Zanu-PF in Masvingo has expressed satisfaction with more than 600 000 people who have registered under the Biometric Voter Registration exercise in the province.

Indications are that the number of registered voters will increase as it did not include people that registered under the BVR mop-up exercise in the province.

Speaking on the sidelines of a provincial executive council meeting held over the weekend, to take stock of progress in the BVR exercise in the province, Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial chair Cde Ezra Chadzamira said the party leadership in the province was happy with the number of registered voters.

“We are still to get the actual figures of the number of people who registered under the BVR mop-up exercise in the province, but so far from our own assessment more than 600 000 people have registered in the province under BVR,’’ he said.

“The latest figures that we have show that we are around 74 percent of our target of about 90 percent, but obviously the figure will go up when those who registered under the mop-up exercise are factored in.’’

Cde Chadzamira paid tribute to ruling party structures in the province for mobilising people to register as voters under the BVR exercise.

Some of the prospective voters in areas such as Mwenezi and Chiredzi failed to register under the new system because of lack of identity documents.

Cde Chadzamira said the ruling party was pulling out all the stops to make sure the revolutionary party and its presidential candidate, President Mnangagwa, win resoundingly in the forthcoming harmonised elections.

“It’s all systems go and we have been strengthening our structures at all levels of the party from the cells to make sure we are in good stead to win resoundingly,” he said.

“Masvingo is a known Zanu-PF stronghold and we want to make sure the ruling party and our presidential candidate President Mnangagwa garner as much votes as possible in the province as that will set the tone for a crushing electoral victory nationwide.’’

Cde Chadzamira said Zanu-PF was angling to retain all the 26 House of Assembly seats that were won by the revolutionary party in the last election held in 2013.

He said the overwhelming response to the ruling party voter registration mobilisation campaign was testament to Zanu-PF’s bright chances of registering a landslide victory in the coming elections.

The ruling party swept clean all the House of Assembly seats in Masvingo in the last election in 2013.