Zanu PF has scoffed at allegations that it is already rigging next year’s elections, saying the opposition is its worst enemy ahead of next year’s crucial polls.
By NQOBANI NDLOVU
Simon Khaya-Moyo, the ruling party spokesperson spoke yesterday after former vice-president Joice Mujuru said there were indications that Zanu PF was already manipulating the 2018 polls.
Former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC-T has also in the past raised fears that the elections would not be free and fair, accusing President Robert Mugabe of tilting the playing field in his party’s favour.
“We are a massive party, with a massive membership across the country,” Khaya-Moyo said.
“Our policies and programmes resonate with our people. Why will there be a need to rig with so many followers, to rig what?
“How do we rig ourselves out of power?” Khaya-Moyo said.
“There is nothing called rigging. I cannot even spell the word. They must sell their programmes, go to the people and if they like their policies, they will vote for them.
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“But they have none and the only thing they know is to complain, cry-babies. We can’t assist the opposition to organise themselves.”
Zanu PF has been accused of using violence and manipulating the voters’ roll to gain an unfair advantage in elections since the country’s independence in 1980.
Opposition partners have coalesced under the National Election Reform Agenda to try and force the government to introduce electoral reforms, but Zanu PF has been resisting the pressure.
Khaya-Moyo said the ruling party remained unmoved by opposition campaigns, ridiculing the ongoing efforts to form a coalition.
“Our business is to organise the party,” he said. “The opposition is in tatters, they are even failing to come up with a congress, convention, coalition or whatever they call it.
“How do they win such disagreements?”
The opposition is engaged in talks to form a united front to dislodge Zanu PF, but disagreements on who will lead the coalition and the best formula on sharing parliamentary seats are overshadowing their engagements.
