Mugabe slams ‘dirty tricks’

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday threatened to expose senior Zanu PF officials whom he claimed were burning the midnight oil holding clandestine meetings, applying “dirty tricks” and splashing “dirty money” to influence the outcome of the party’s elective congress in December.

Party spokesperson Rugare Gumbo told journalists after yesterday’s politburo meeting that Mugabe had issued a stern warning against such “indiscipline” among party stalwarts.

This came as Zanu PF national secretary for administration and Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa declared that he will contest the chairmanship or any higher position in the ruling party presidium provided he was nominated ahead of the December elective congress.

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