Rifts within the ruling ZANU-PF party are widening ahead of the partyÂ’s national conference early next month as insiders report Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono, widely perceived as a favorite of the president, has been pulled into the brawl.
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Some cabinet members and ruling party members of parliament regard Gono as a potential presidential contender in 2008, and are agitating for him to resign. Various parliamentary committees have asked him to come and explain his policies against a backdrop of continued recession and inflation running at an annual 1,070%.
But ZANU-PF member for Makonde Leo Mugabe, chairman of the transport and communications committee, told VOAÂ’s Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that Gono has asked ZANU-PF chief whip Joram GumboÂ’s parliamentary coordination committee to set up a joint session so he can brief members of several committees at the same time |