Robert Mugabe would still win the Zimbabwe election if he was dead, his wife has said, a year before voters head to the polls.
Grace Mugabe, who is seen a possible successor to her husband, told supporters of the ruling ZANU-PF party her husband would get votes even as a ‘corpse’.
‘One day when God decides that Mugabe dies, we will have his corpse appear as a candidate on the ballot paper,” she said in Buhera.
‘You will see people voting for Mugabe as a corpse. I am seriously telling you – just to show people how people love their president.’
Mugabe, turns 93 on Tuesday, has vowed to stand again in the election, but his wife could run if he dies before the vote.
He has been in power since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, but has avoided naming a successor and his party is divided between factions jostling to succeed him.
Grace bemoaned the in-fighting, telling those seeking to succeed her husband: ‘Let’s not fool each other, let’s wait for God’s time.-Metro