Just as many were writing obituaries to Robert Mugabe’s political career, the ruthless Zimbabwean dictator is fighting back and plans to fight to the very end, to retain his terrifying status as one of the world’s most ruthless and cruel dictators. Robert Mugabe’s Zanu party will now contest the results of 16 parliamentary seats which could just bring them back to power.
In a show of strength, 400 of Robert Mugabe’s veteran fighters, the band of men who were responsible for driving the whites out of Zimbabwe took out a march in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare. The 84 year old dictator also held a meeting with top officials in which he is said to have launched a last ditch attempt to cling on to power.
All this in the backdrop of the opposition party MDF asserting confidently that it would form the government. The meeting also ended with Zanu party declaring Robert Gabriel Mugabe to be it’s candidate to challenge MDC’s Morgan Tsivangirai in the Presidential run off that is scheduled to be held in the near future.
The Zimbabwean election commission also has postponed April 19th’s second phase of polling making it even more of a certainty that the Zanu party could rig the ballot. Raids on opposition party and the arrest of two foreign journalists also is making Zimbabwe’s public very tense and restive. Only the coming days will tell wether Robert Mugabe is ousted or he goes out fighting or worse, he comes back to misrule Zimbabwe.
Via: Independent
