Dakamela cancelled a provincial executive meeting at the last minute on Thursday amid revelations that members of the youth wing wanted to topple him.The chairman has been at loggerheads with the youth league who accuse him of taking bribes from white and Indian property owners in the city to stop the invasion of buildings by Zanu PF supporters.
Zanu PF youths have been forcibly occupying buildings in Bulawayo under the guise of black economic empowerment.
Dakamela on Friday claimed that unnamed senior Zanu PF officials from outside the province were behind the property grabbing spree in the city.
“Zanu PF youths in Bulawayo are being used by senior officials from outside the region to cause divisions,” Dakamela said in an interview.
“There is a plot to remove me from my position by officials from outside the region because I have been against this business of invading buildings.”
He refused to name the said party officials from outside the region.
Absolom Sikhosana, the Zanu-PF national youth chairman recently said that the party leadership had not sanctioned the takeover of the buildings.
He said the youths must “wait for politburo members who will be dispatched to provinces to inform and educate party followers on how this programme of indigenisation will be implemented.”
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The youth league has passed a vote of no confidence on Dakamela over his refusal to sanction the invasion of buildings.
The youths are reportedly planning violent protests at his meeting to force him to step down.
