OUTSPOKEN Zanu PF politburo member Tshinga Dube has said citizens must be wary of those advising President Emmerson Mnangagwa to hang on to power as they are people typically singing for their supper at the expense of the nation.
Dube told mourners during the burial of the liberation war hero Killion Dube, who succumbed to hypertension at the age of 89 on August 25.
He was buried at Lady Stanley cemetery on Sunday.
Dube said they did not want to spoil Mnangagwa’s legacy when he had played a pivotal from in the liberation of the country up to date.
“There are various opinions on the succession issue. Most of the members in the party have said he should hang on to power, but he has said that he will follow the Constitution. We have not heard him saying he wants to cling on to power beyond his term of office but we should know that while men propose, God disposes,” Dube said.
“We do not know what is going to happen in four years to come, even spirit mediums do not know, only God knows. Advisers are problematic, those advising him are only looking at things that benefit themselves only.”
“We must be careful with advice that we give to the President so that it does not benefit individuals only because we want his legacy to remain; these things can destroy his legacy after working so hard as minister, survived hangman’s noose and at the end of the day his legacy is destroyed like that,’’ he added.
Dube said the upcoming Zanu PF conference was an administrative conference and not an elective one.
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He described the late Killion as one of the pioneers of the liberation struggle who worked tirelessly in paving their way through the Zambezi area.
Bulawayo Provincial Affairs and Devolution minister, Judith Ncube, who was represented by Bulawayo’s deputy director for administration Julious Gwatiwa, said government greatly acknowledged the late Dube’s contribution during the liberation struggle.
“Dube’s landmark contribution to the liberation struggle of Zimbabwe brought freedom and dignity to all of us here today and future generations,’’ Ncube said.
