Zanu PF has warned there could be a bloodbath if Prime Minister
Morgan Tsvangirai wins next year’s Presidential elections.
In an interview with South African-based television channel e-News Channel
Africa, Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo chillingly revealed how hardliners
would find it difficult to hand over the reins of power to Tsvangirai.
The Daily News also managed to exclusively view the whole hair-raising
interview.
"I can say it will be a mess. That is what I can tell you; it will be messy.
We will be asking for too much from our guys (the military) to accept these
people who we all know fought against them and were responsible for the
deaths of many of their comrades,” Gumbo said.
“They (hardliners) are human beings; they feel pained by the actions of the
opposition and also by the West. I have told people several times that look
we laughed at what happened in Libya and we laugh at what is happening in
Syria. These things can also happen here. There will be deaths. People could
be killed and maimed and so on,” he said.
Gumbo’s warning comes hard on the heels of a recent interview with the
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) by Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa
in which he made veiled threats to Tsvangirai, insinuating the military
would stage a coup detat if he wins the next elections.
“He (Tsvangirai) cannot win. He has been campaigning and mobilising against
the interests of Zimbabweans on many issues, whether talking about land,
seeking to reverse the gains of the liberation struggle,” Chinamasa told BBC’s
Andrew Harding.
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