FORMER cabinet minister and ruling Zanu PF party politburo member Dzikamai Mavhaire yesterday rejoined the party from the opposition he had defected to, together with two others.
Mavhaire, a former minister of Energy and Power Development, his son Lawrence Mavhaire, and former Gutu Central Member of Parliament, Oliver Chirume, were welcomed back into the ruling party by Zanu PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House.
Presidential Affairs minister, Lovemore Matuke, who is a senior Zanu PF member in Masvingo, and Robson Mavhenyengwa, the party’s Masvingo provincial chairman, accompanied the trio to State House.
Matuke told journalists that both President Mnangagwa and Masvingo province welcomed the return of Mavhaire.
“We are today receiving Mavhaire who is one of the most senior politicians in Masvingo and he is coming back to re-join his party, so the president welcomed him and as a province we have also welcomed him,” he said.
Matuke said it was his hope that the party would move forward as a team, adding that Mavhaire realised that there is a need to re-join the party after witnessing a number of developments that are taking place in the country.
“He said no, when we go for opposition politics we will be looking for development, but the president has been able to articulate development in the country and there is no room for him to be opposed. So he is joining the party and he is going to move forward with the party,” said Matuke.
On the other hand, Mavhenyengwa also told the media that his province was very happy with Mavhaire’s re-joining of the party.
“So I am very happy as the chairman because more resources are coming, more people are coming. In Masvingo we welcome all who want to come back, who have gone to opposition parties. Maybe they had their own ideas and now that they have seen the development being done by the Second Republic, by President Mnangagwa and they want to be part of it.
“We most welcome them to come back, not only Mavhaire, even the other people, the opposition people he has left behind, I will talk to him so that he can also convince them to re-join Zanu PF,” said Mavhenyengwa. – New Ziana