By A Correspondent- Mashonaland Central Provincial Chairman, Kazembe Kazembe has defied his President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s directive and coopted his lieutenants into his provincial executive committee so that they would help him rig the party’s pending Provincial Coordinating Committee elections.

Last Month President Mnanangawa’s Zanu PF through its Acting National Political Commissar Patrick Chinamasa announced that no cooptions were to be made without the party’s authority.

But Kazembe last week went ahead and called for a Provincial Executive Committee meeting and coopted new members into the Provincial Executive, without notifying the party.

Kazembe is said to have unilaterally promoted one Tsine from Commisar to Vice Chairman and one Kararira to the position of a Commissar

The two co-opted members hail from Mt Darwin district. A party member who spoke on condition of anonymity said “Kazembe is trying to buy votes from Mt Darwin by heaping these posts and responsibilities on Mt Darwin. He is trying to neutralize James Makamba who is popular in the Mt Darwin district.”

He said Kazembe had failed to respect Guruve district which held the Vice Chairmanship.

” Kazembe tried to impose Shamva North MP Gorerino to the post of Vice Chairman. This move was later revoked after it failed to garner support”, said the source.

” Kazembe also imposed Mazowe DCC election loser Johnson Mudzingwa to thVice-Chairman Deputy Secretary for security. Mudzingwa was rewarded for running a social media attack on Politburo member Kenneth Musanhi through Mashonaland Central Tribune a backyard publication operated by Mudzingwa,” said the source.