Robert Mugabe said with
reference to the UN Chief, Ban Ki-moon statement calling on African leaders not
to cling to power, Mugabe responded that he would continue “until God says
‘come’’.
Mugabe, who turned 92 on Sunday, said he had no intention of stepping
down in spite being Africa’s oldest leader and the only president Zimbabwe has
known since independence in 1980.
The 92-year-old Zimbabwean
President, Robert Mugabe, on Thursday in Harare maintained that even though is
party would choose a successor; he planned to contest the next election in
2018. Mugabe, who would be 94 by 2018, insisted that he would still seek his
last five-year term under a new constitution that would see him through to 99
years old.
He said as the president he
still remained in charge of day-to-day running of his government. Grace, his
wife, a powerful figure in ZANU-PF in her own right, told party supporters that
he was the only one who could keep Zimbabwe “intact and peaceful”. She added
that she would push him in a wheelbarrow to work if he was unable to walk.
Eldred Masunungure, a
political science lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, noted that from
analysing the political situation, his political speeches, his political
actions, it is increasingly becoming clear that he is gunning to be there for
as long as he lives. He said in spite his old age, Mugabe remained the glue
holding together his fractious ZANU-PF, which dominates the political scene.
Masunungure said the
president enjoyed support from the military, an institution that has been a
major pillar of his long rule. Meanwhile, many Zimbabweans followed his health
with keen interest, especially after assertions by Wikileaks that he might have
prostate cancer, which he denied. They said with Mugabe having ruled for 36
years, some people fear the government could be paralysed and the country riven
by instability, should he die without resolving the succession issue.
Critics blame Mugabe for
many of the problems facing the country.
is ur birthright die there
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