Video: ED Asked Chamisa For Deal To Postpone Elections, Offered 2-Year GNU & Power Handover, Feared Military and FAZ Influence - Ibbo Mandaza
President Emmerson Mnangagwa approached Chamisa for a deal to postpone elections and hand over power to him after 2 years, Ibbo Mandaza has claimed in an interview.
Mandaza said that a reliable informant told him Mnangagwa feared the influence of the military and FAZ in the elections. Mandaza also said he thinks ED feared his un-electability.
Said Mandaza:
I got this from very reliable quarters. Emmerson didn’t want elections. It’s also because he knew it would be messy. And I think he also knew that he is unelectable. And he sent out emissaries to Chamisa in March around there. To say “Let’s postpone the elections for 2 years. Let’s have a Government of National Unity, and in 2 years I handover. I am going.
I asked my informant who were the emissaries and he named them. People in Emmerson’s cabinet. The inner core.
I went further, I wanted to know, what was the rationale behind the argument for this postponement GNU. And the response was that the military were too involved in elections…
I understood that the military meant Chiwenga. But later on I realised FAZ… Many of Emmerson’s inner core lost in the primaries because of FAZ.
Mandaza is a politician, academic and businessman who is also the director of a local think-tank Sapes Trust.
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