‘ZANU-PF will win hands down, and as before, you will be stuck with my party, governed by it.’- Nathaniel Manheru

State media columnist Nathaniel Manheru has declared that ZANU PF is set for an emphatic 2018 election victory.

Manheru, widely thought to be President Robert Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba said Zanu PF preoccupation is not to hand over power.

He asked in his Saturday Herald column “What should be ZANU-PF’s preoccupation? To lose power? To have it in order to hand it over? My goodness! The world as it should be, never as it is. You think Machiavelli was only Italian! And why remind ZANU-PF that its full-time role is to retain power? Much like asking the Pope why he is always praying, twiddling with the rosary. What do Popes do?”.

Below is Manheru’s detailed election victory account :

“But for you – an out and out MDC supporter – to accost a ZANU-PF government for the fulfilment of a ZANU-PF manifesto you strove hard to defeat in the last election, is rank madness.
“How do you know ZANU-PF is done with those who installed it, and thus to whom it governs beholden? “The sun shines on those standing first, before it reaches those who have elected to crouch under a cave. “And like I said last week, ZANU-PF got more than 2 million votes, enough for the jobs it promised.

“There will not be any leftovers, I am sorry. We are set for another poll. You can choose to remain under the cave or to stand up with the rest, in readiness for the coming sunshine.

“Already the writing is clear on the wall. ZANU-PF will win hands down, and as before, you will be stuck with my party, governed by it.

“That is what happens in a democracy.

“You don’t have to like it. The world as it is, not as you like or wish it.

“And I write not from the ivory tower, not from a prayerful plinth, but from the hard field where I work extra hard to ensure ZANU-PF is re-elected, wins.” source-herald