Khupe Snubbed My Offer To Form A Coalition Of Female Candidates: Mujuru

People’s Rainbow Coalition (PRC) presidential candidate, Joice Mujuru has said that Thokozani Khupe’s MDC-T ignored her when she reached out. Mujuru wanted to form a coalition with Khupe so that they do not split votes. Speaking at a public election discussion forum in Harare, Mujuru said,

I wish all women could have joined hands together so that we accumulate lots of votes from mostly women, youths and the disabled and men too. I approached the leader of the MDC-T, Khupe and I did not get a reply and this obviously has a bearing on the outcome of the votes. The people from Khupe’s camp promised to come back to me so that we map the way forward but up until today I am yet to get a response.

However, Khupe said that she was unaware of the offer and dismissed the assertion that the female candidates would split the vote among themselves. Said Khupe,