#MnangagwaRecreatesCoupScenario
#WarVetsBreathFireOverSuccession
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is putting the country in a coup mode similar to the November 2017 volatile  situation - like the late former president Robert Mugabe did then - by failing to resolve his succession power struggle, while battling to hang onto office beyond his 2028 second term constitutional limit for a third term, a war veterans leader said yesterday.
This dire warning, which came after a flurry of some ominous remarks by ex-combatants,
was delivered by the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association chairperson Andreas Ethan Mathibela at a press conference in Harare yesterday.
“We regard the resolution by Zanu PF to extend the term of office of the current administration as inconsistent with constitutional provisions and as an attempt to manage their succession challenges by creating a constitutional crisis," Mathibela said.
“While it is not our place to wade in the succession battles in any political formation, it is prudent to jolt Zanu PF’s short memory by reminding them of the reasons why the military launched Operation Restore Legacy in November 2017.
“Operation Restore Legacy was an intervention in Zanu PF where political temperatures which were approaching a boiling point.
“It is now the same poor succession management that is threatening to engulf the nation.”
This follows explosive media briefings by war veterans - who are proxies of the military - in Bulawayo last week and in Harare on Sunday where the ex-combatants said they are firmly opposed to Mnangagwa's third term bid.
They also they are now getting increasingly agitated by his leadership, governance and policy failures which are further destroying the country.
War veterans in Harare, especially Blessed Geza and Knox Chivero, went further to demand that due to corruption, nepotism and brazen clansmen politics through which Mnangagwa promotes his children, relatives and ethnic cronies, he must go.