According to the petition addressed to Zanu PF chairperson Oppah Muchinguri and obtained by this publication last night, the former fighters want the party's secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, secretary for health David Parirenyatwa, commissar Engelbert Rugeje, secretary for finance Patrick Chinamasa and politburo member Sydney Sekeremayi fired.
The war veterans accuse the Zanu PF heavyweights of sabotaging President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Rugeje, who retired from the army after the coup that toppled former president Bob
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in November last year, is being targeted for allegedly failing to campaign for Mnangagwa ahead of the July 30 elections.
Mnangagwa narrowly avoided a run-off against MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa after registering a 50,6 % victory.
Chamisa has refused to concede defeat saying the election result was manipulated in favour of Mnangagwa.
The petition was signed yesterday by war veterans representatives from 10 provinces.
The war veterans claimed it was difficult to restructure the party when there were still some members aligned to the G40 faction, which backed Mugabe at the height of Zanu PF's succession wars.
The former fighters, who supported Mnangagwa during his tussle for control of the ruling party with G40, threatened to storm the Zanu PF headquarters to remove the targeted officials if the party failed to take action.
"Consequently, in pursuit of our constitutional mandate as custodians of the Zim-bob-wean people's revolution, as patriots, loyal and stockholders of Zanu PF, we demand, as we hereby do through the copy of this petition, that the following members relinquish their posts and vacate offices at the Zanu PF headquarters with immediate effect," reads part of the petition.
"Failure to do so, we, as veterans of the liberation struggle, shall force them out of the offices for the good of the people's revolution.
"Cde Obert Mpofu needs to clear the corruption allegations levelled against him before resuming office."
The war veterans said they wanted the Zanu PF commissariat to be overhauled immediately.
"Their involvement in the primary elections affected the president's performance in harmonised elections. It leaves us with more questions than answers where the President gets 50,6% while MPs could get more than 73%. We need an uncompromising team of dedicated cadres to take us to the 2023 elections," the petition added.
"Sekeramayi, Parirenyatwa and Chinamasa's unrepentant behaviour towards the new dispensation: Though we are not opposed to their ideas of having permanent appointments, these elements are known for factionalism and cannot be entrusted with such responsibility."