Zimbabwean
President, Robert Mugabe, has alleged that his former Vice President and other
top officials in his ruling Zanu-PF sought the services of Nigerian
witchdoctors in a bid to kill him.
The Africa
Review reports that President Mugabe made the bizarre claims at the weekend as
he celebrated his 91st birthday at a lavish party hosted by the party’s
communist-styled 21st February movement.
The veteran
ruler, in power since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980 claims he was ordained by
God to rule forever according to the report.
He told
party supporters at the celebrations held at a top hotel in the resort town of
Victoria Falls that sacked Vice-President Joice Mujuru used two Nigerian
witchdoctors in her alleged plot to have him killed.
Ms Mujuru
was sacked together with more than 10 Cabinet ministers for allegedly plotting
to assassinate President Mugabe and being involved in corrupt activities.
President
Mugabe said Ms Mujuru was now too desperate to push him out of power even after
he won an election in 2013.
“We managed
to know what (Ms) Mujuru was doing at her house, even consulting witchdoctors,”
he claimed.
“Recently
she invited two Nigerian witchdoctors. We heard that they were specialists in
the field of witchcraft. They were specialists, yes, but specialists in robbing
people, foolish people.”
He said the
Nigerians ordered Ms Mujuru to buy chickens that were named after herself, the
President, his wife and Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
The
President claimed the former Vice-President who was his deputy for 10 years,
performed the rituals naked.
“Where do
these Nigerians get the powers to entrap the soul of a human being into a
chicken or sheep and then kill him?
“God is for
us all. I also go to church, I do not believe in superstition. We were taught
God’s teachings,” Mugabe said.
Last year,
Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs ministry summoned Zimbabwean envoy in Abuja Stanley
Kunjeku to protest after President Mugabe said Nigerians were corrupt.
The Nigerian
government at the time said it had lodged ‘the strongest protest’ against the
veteran ruler’s statements.
Source: Leadership Newspaper
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