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Musengezi Vowed To Continue Challenging Mnangagwa's Ascendancy

2 years agoSat, 27 Nov 2021 09:22:45 GMT
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Musengezi Vowed To Continue Challenging Mnangagwa's Ascendancy

ZANU PF activist, Sybeth Musengezi, Friday vowed to continue with his court action where he is challenging the constitutionality of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ascendancy as ZANU PF leader in 2017.

Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF recently threatened to sue Musengezi’s lawyers demanding withdrawal of the court challenge.

Musengezi’s lawyers have accused Mnangagwa and ZANU PF’s lawyers of using bullying tactics and reported them to the Law Society of Zimbabwe.

The ZANU PF activist is seeking a court order declaring null and void a November 19, 2017, ZANU PF central committee meeting that elected Mnangagwa as party leader after the late Robert Mugabe’s dismissal.

In an opposing affidavit, ZANU PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu argued that Mnangagwa enjoyed presidential immunity. He also dismissed Musengezi as a bogus ZANU PF member.

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Musengezi cited ZANU PF, Mnangagwa, Mpofu, acting finance secretary Patrick Chinamasa, former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and ex-ZANU PF finance secretary Ignatius Chombo as the first to fifth respondents respectively in his application. Musengezi said in his answering affidavit filed through his lawyers Ncube Attorneys:

Applicant clearly has sued the second respondent in his official capacity as the President and first secretary of the first respondent. To suggest that the applicant is thereby suing the office of the President is self-servingly misleading.

He said the fact that Mnangagwa is the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe does not bar a suit against him in his capacity as President and 1st Secretary of ZANU PF.

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