Robert Mugabe News and Quotes: Zimbabwe President Accuses His VP of Conspiring With U.S., Witches To Kill Him
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who is famous for making incendiary remarks before the U.N. and priding himself on trying to be 10 times the Hitler that Hitler was, has just accused his vice president, Joice Mujuru, of conspiring with the United States Embassy to have him murdered.
Speaking at a three-day party congress, in which he was re-elected to another five-year term as party president and granted the authority to personally choose his own vice president, the 90-year old African leader explained to the 12,000 attending members of the ruling Zanu-PF party that his spies had followed Mujuru to the U.S. embassy, where she supposedly held secret meetings discussing a plan of assassination.
According to The Associated Press, Mugabe said, "I am open to competition, but not when it involves taking me out the Kabila way," referring to Laurent Kabila, a former leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo who was assassinated by one of his bodyguards in 2001.
Joice Mujuru, once a freedom fighter in Mugabe's guerrilla army that went by the nom de guerre "Spill Blood," is now accused of conspiring with witches and foreign agents to violently remove the president.
"I met Joice when she was a young kid in the war," said Mugabe, who appointed Mujuru to became a member of his cabinet when he became president in 1980. "I strengthened her and even pushed her to get an education until she got a doctorate."
Mugabe also claimed his wife, Grace Mugabe, who has just been confirmed head of the Zanu-PF party’s women's wing, pushed him to appoint Mujuru as vice president in 2004.
Mugabe plans to announce Mujuru's successor later on this week, assuring his crowd that the vice president (who will remain in office, as Mugabe needs need parliament's approval to remove her from government) and her allies will not be considered for the position.
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