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ZANU-PF strongman for presidency

    JOHANNESBURG

    The veteran politician and Masvingo strongman of the ruling ZANU-PF party, Eddison Zvobgo, has said he would offer himself for the 2002 presidential election if President Robert Mugabe pulls out, the ‘Financial Gazette’ reported on Thursday.

    He told the weekly newspaper: “The president and I have since prison (during the independence war) - and prison really brings you together - been very close . . . to the extent that the idea never crossed my mind.
    Should he (Mugabe) decide not to run, then I have to reconsider my options.
    In those circumstances, I might decide to offer myself.” Zvobgo, is a founder member of ZANU PF and the party’s first deputy secretary-general.

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