'It was me who urged Mugabe to resign,' says wife Grace
Former first lady Grace Mugabe says she convinced her husband to stand down
after last year’s military takeover when he was determined not to, it has
emerged.
Grace Mugabe made the claim during a surprise press conference her husband
gave at the couple’s Harare mansion this week.
'It was me who urged him to resign'
"Baba (father) did not want to put pen to paper, in fact, it was me who urged
him to resign for the sake of peace because Baba did not want to,” Grace Mugabe
said, in comments carried by the private NewsDay.
Mugabe confirmed his wife's role in helping to persuade him. “Under the
circumstances, I didn’t want to step down because I felt it was not proper and I
insisted that everything was done unconstitutionally,” the 94-year-old said.
‘Anarchy and bloodshed’
He said he was willing to face impeachment proceedings by MPs from his party
and the main opposition but his wife had convinced him that “the process would
take long and in between, the country could plunge into anarchy and
bloodshed.”
Mugabe told reporters that last November’s takeover was a “military coup” – a
phrase his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa has done everything to avoid.
Mnangagwa’s office has shrugged off the criticism, insisting on Friday that
while Mugabe was free to express himself the country had “moved on”.
Source: News24
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