Harare – The 92-year-old Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, on Thursday in Harare maintained that even though is party would choose a successor, he planned to contest the next election in 2018.
Mugabe, who would be 94 by 2018, insisted that he would still seek his last five-year term under a new constitution that would see him through to 99 years old.

The 92-year-old Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, on Thursday in Harare maintained that even though is party would choose a successor, he planned to contest the next election in 2018.

He said with reference to the UN Chief, Ban Ki-moon statement calling on African leaders not to cling to power, Mugabe responded that he would continue “until God says ‘come’’.

Mugabe, who turned 92 on Sunday, said he had no intention of stepping down in spite being Africa’s oldest leader and the only president Zimbabwe has known since independence in 1980.

He said as the president he still remained in charge of day-to-day running of his government.
Grace, his wife, a powerful figure in ZANU-PF in her own right, told party supporters that he was the only one who could keep Zimbabwe “intact and peaceful”.

She added that she would push him in a wheelbarrow to work if he was unable to walk.
Eldred Masunungure, a political science lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, noted that from analysing the political situation, his political speeches, his political actions, it is increasingly becoming clear that he is gunning to be there for as long as he lives.

He said in spite his old age, Mugabe remained the glue holding together his fractious ZANU-PF, which dominates the political scene.
Masunungure said the president enjoyed support from the military, an institution that has been a major pillar of his long rule.
Meanwhile, many Zimbabweans followed his health with keen interest, especially after assertions by Wikileaks that he might have prostate cancer, which he denied.

They said with Mugabe having ruled for 36 years, some people fear the government could be paralysed and the country riven by instability, should he die without resolving the succession issue.

Zimbabweans recalled that in 2015 he read out the wrong speech in parliament, which the opposition seized upon to question whether he was still of sound mind, though the president’s spokesman blamed his aides.
They noted that his life presidency aspirations could frustrate the feuding big-hitters of his ruling ZANU-PF party, who have been trying for years to position themselves for a post-Mugabe political era.

Critics blame Mugabe for many of the problems facing the country.
They said his policies, including the seizures and redistribution of white-owned commercial farms, drove one of Africa’s most promising economies into nearly a decade of deep recession until 2008 that cut its output almost in half

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He should enjoy

Make dem leave am na... Tym no plenty again

God loves him. And when he dies he will be the Captain of The Team I hope to join in Heaven.

Funny! Africans and the power syndrome

Dx man?

Hmmmmm

Na him birthright na, make him die there.... I wish Buhari can say the same thing so we can finally have the reason to march to Aso rock.... Wonder what that place looks like

old man

power doesn't mean any sh*t

Its like buhari has decided to die in power.

I wish Buhari could just die now so that our economy will become great again.

Why do African Leaders choose to die in power?

No More LEADERSHIP BY FORCE. I Tell You, 'You Won't LAST!'

Aristotle96:
Make dem leave am na... Tym no plenty again

Lol

Lust for power will certainly send you to your untimely grave, since 1980, U never tire??! Dem stamp ur name for that seat??!

Lol, Egbon Mugabe be like; "till death do us part"

I wonder what will happen if this is how its done in Nigeria. 1 person ruling is for decade. Hmmmmm

He's getting closer.

africa leaders and power are just like men and pu**y. if he likes he can keep the post even in heaven it non of my business naija and zimbabwe no near dem self

They should free the great grand papa joor.....

Oldest African president....... is he older than buhari

wow. too much naa

Waa pe mbe !
Iku re o!

Do some presidents get possessed when dey take up d P.seat?? This old boy needs to be on house rest na

My nigga

this is simple naa are their no more APPLE giver any more the last time i checked Zimbabwe babes are good at that

I still wonder how people survive in dat country despite d state of d country's economy.


MUGABE... The Zimbabwean god

He can die before that time too. Power (political) is NOT forever

This man is caused........and he will die in power, get a shameful burial

The wait won't be long. Till then.

Isorite