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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe
on Thursday has likened those trying to
push him into retirement to the biblical
betrayer, Judas. The 93-year-old
Mugabe, one of the world’s oldest
leaders, has been in power since
Zimbabwe, then called Rhodesia, gained
independence from Britain in 1980.
He intends to seek another five-year
term at elections due in 2018. In public,
his party, ZANU-PF, has rallied behind
its aging leader.
But in private its members are deeply
divided over his continued leadership
and who will eventually take over from
him.
Mugabe, who has repeatedly said his
party will choose his successor when the
time comes, said he was going nowhere
and accused some party officials of
supporting him during the day while
plotting against him behind his back.
“Others are like those that Jesus spoke
about during his last supper when he
said ‘some of you eating with me here
shall betray me’.
The Judas Iscariot. They are here among
us,” Mugabe said during the burial of a
party member.
“They want to cause leadership change
… for the president to step down.
“I did not grab power. I was chosen by
the people. It’s the people’s throne, so I
don’t want with it,” he said to loud
cheers from some party members.
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