Utete backers anti-Zanu PF — Mpofu

ZANU PF politburo member Obert Mpofu on Saturday said party members in Matabeleland North province would have made a monumental blunder if they had voted Patrick Utete as provincial chairman, claiming the latter went on record attributing the party’s defeat in the last election to its ageing leader, President Robert Mugabe.

Report by Nduduzo Tshuma Staff Reporter

Utete, who is the party’s provincial treasurer, withdrew from the election for a substantive provincial chairperson as he was trailing the only other candidate Richard Moyo by a wide margin.

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