Tagwirei assisted in 2013 election victory: Zanu PF

ZANU PF politburo member, Webster Shamu, has revealed that the ruling party had to rely on businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei’s assistance to win the 2013 general elections.

Shamu was Zanu PF’s national political commissar at the time.

Speaking during a Zanu PF provincial coordinating committee meeting held in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West province, Shamu, who is the Zanu PF national deputy secretary for commissariat, said Tagwirei assisted the department financially, a move that saw the party clinching victory.

“For us to win the elections in 2013, let me say something that has never been said in public, the person whom we banked our hopes on was Tagwirei; he assisted us with fuel and transport while we were at the commissariat department,” Shamu said.

In 2013, Zanu PF, then under the leadership of the late former President Robert Mugabe, faced stiff competition from the late Morgan Tsvangirai-led opposition party, MDC-T.

Zanu PF won a two-thirds majority in Parliament in the 2013 plebiscite.

Early this year, Sports minister Anselem Sanyatwe hailed Tagwirei for his contribution to the agricultural sector.

Sanyatwe told villagers in Nyanga, Manicaland province, that the Tagwirei-led command agriculture rescued the country from acute food shortages.

Tagwirei was recently co-opted into the Zanu PF central committee under Harare province.

Since then, he has been moving around addressing rallies showering President Emmerson Mnangagwa with praises for turning around the country’s economic fortunes.
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