- Zanu PF on drive to mobilise urban voters for 2023
- Matemadanda to descend on MDC strongholds
- Aims to raise 5 million votes for Mnangagwa
- Matemadenda urges police to clampdown on violence
ZANU PF political commissar Victor Matemadanda is set to embark on a massive recruitment drive in opposition strongholds ahead of the 2023 plebiscite, Zim Morning Post has learnt.
Zanu PF has been struggling to claim their fair share in urban areas, which are mostly controlled by the MDC led by Nelson Chamisa.
Speaking to Zim Morning Post, Matemadanda said Zanu PF was ready to mobilise in urban areas in their bid to meet their 2023 target of five million voters for President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
“Our target is five million votes in 2023, and we are very confident that we will give our President (Mnangagwa) a landslide victory,” Matemadanda said.
The Zanu PF Commissar said that his party was not worried about what the opposition would be doing as they set their eyes on the 2023 harmonised elections.
“We are Zanu PF, and we are not worried about what will happen in the opposition camp. If they want to do violent demonstrations, the police will simply deal with them,” Matemadanda added.
In the 2018 harmonised elections, Mnangagwa garnered 50, 8 percent of the presidential vote, with his closest opponent and MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa getting 44 percent.
Chamisa contested the result at the Constitutional Court but the nine-member Constitutional Court judges unanimously confirmed Mnangagwa as the duly-elected President of Zimbabwe.
Matemadanda challenged party loyalists to embark on a recruitment drive.
