Sam Sipepa Nkomo eyes Tsholotsho seat

Sam Sipepa Nkomo eyes Tsholotsho seat

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By Staff Reporter

BANNED Daily News boss Sam Sipepa Nkomo, brother to Zanu PF national chairman, John Nkomo, has reportedly declared his interest in the Tsholotsho seat on an MDC ticket.

The Daily News chief executive officer seems to be following his big brother’s footsteps on the other side of the political divide and the biggest question is whether he will not chicken out in the eleventh hour when push comes to shove.

Highly placed MDC sources said Nkomo was raring to contest Tsholotsho seat on their ticket.

Contacted for comment yesterday, Nkomo would neither deny nor confirm that his political ambitions lay in Tsholotsho, Matebeleland North Province.

“I have no comment,” Nkomo said Sunday.

MDC’s spokesperson and Gwanda North legislator, Paul Themba Nyathi was evasive on the matter when contacted for a comment last week.. Nyathi said: “As you know ours is a democratic party and anyone who wants to stand for the party in any constituency is welcome but there are procedures that should be followed.”

It is not yet known whether the MDC is going to contest next year’s elections after it withdrew from the participating in any of the country’s elections citing an uneven playing field they say tilts heavily in favour of the status quo.

Of late, Tsholotsho has hogged the limelight in the aftermath of the unsanctioned meeting that-if succeeded-could have seen a new look ruling party presidium without national John Nkomo and the two vice presidents Joseph Msika and Joyce Mujuru.

The attempted “palace coup” saw six provincial chairmen being axed from the party for six months. Information Minister Jonathan Moyo whose political future now hangs in the balance after “his explosive blew up in his face” reportedly convened the condemned indaba.

Despite Moyo’s “clandestine” moves, history was made at the ruling party’s national congress earlier this month when Mujuru was elected co-vice president and later vice president of the country.

She became the first female vice President of Zimbabwe. Moyo, whose name was deleted from the list of members of the central committee and on Friday left out of the party’s Politburo, was eyeing the Tsholotsho seat on a ruling party ticket.

Earlier reports indicated that John Nkomo was also interested in the same constituency. Nkomo later withdrew his interest in the volatile constituency saying that as the national chairman of the ruling party, he would not sink so low to be seen to squabble over a constituency when he is a national leader.
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