Farai Dziva|The main opposition party in Zimbabwe, MDC has accused Zanu PF of attempting to “rig Robert Mugabe’s vote in last year’s presidential plebiscite.

The opposition party has also accused Emmerson Mnangagwa of “seizing” Mugabe’s funeral programme.

The Director-General in the President’s Office, Isaac Moyo, claimed Mugabe could not sleep the night he held a press conference endorsing Chamisa.

“Of course, here and there, there were also moments we had our tensions.

I remember when I first went to see him after his Press conference, where he announced he was going to vote for Chamisa.

We really had an exchange that day, but what then emerged was that he said despite having threatened to vote for Chamisa, he actually did not vote for Chamisa and I was told on how on the eve of the elections, he had agonised, he could not sleep.

According to the former First Lady, he had woken up around 2 am somewhere and he said he could not sleep and the idea that he would go and vote for Chamisa was rebuffed, he could not do that.

And the former First Lady said she then encouraged him to follow his real wishes and to vote for comrades he has always been with and not to worry about the small matters between them, and so the former First Lady, with the concurrence of Cde Mugabe himself, said he had not voted for MDC, but he had voted correctly, I found that funny and I enjoyed the story,” claimed Moyo.

Responding to Moyo’s remarks MDC Secretary General Chalton Hwende said :
Some people have no shame this attempt to rig Mugabe’s vote is ludicrous.

Mugabe told the whole world that he was going to Vote for @nelsonchamisa.
Gvt must allow RG’s family to mourn and bury him in peace.”

“Now they start again! What we will here next time is that RGM never said anything about the HEROES ACRE burial – I guess RGM’s vote was changed, they followed it in the ballot box – they rigged his vote,”said Nkululeko Sibanda, the MDC Presidential spokesperson.