MDC-T plot to replace Gweru mayor flops

BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA/METHEMBE SIBANDA
THE MDC-T-led Gweru City Council was last Friday forced to abort a meeting to elect a new mayor to replace recalled Josiah Makombe after the former mayor filed an urgent application at the Bulawayo High Court.

Makombe jointly filed the application together with the MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe and Chitungwiza mayor Lovemore Maiko, seeking an interdict to stop their recalls.

Makombe recently reported Mwonzora and secretary-general Paurina Mpariwa to the police claiming that they jointly lied under oath in a case before the High Court, wherein they had claimed that they had not recalled him.

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