The Morning Call
Ahead of his birthday as he turns ninety three today Zimbabwe’s long-standing ruler Robert Mugabe, disclosed that majority of citizens and the ruling ZANU-PF party see no viable alternative candidate to run for the presidency during the country’s general elections in 2018.
Mugabe said, “they want me to stand for elections, they want me to stand for elections everywhere in the party. The majority of the people feel that there is no replacement, successor who to them is acceptable, as acceptable as i am,”
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