MDC A Mutare mayor, Simon Chabuka faces recalling for contesting the post under CCC ticket

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The newly elected Mutare Mayor Simon Chabuka might be recalled at any time for contesting for the top job under the CITIZEN’s Coalition for Change (CCC) ticket.

The ward 12 councillor who was elected in the council in 2018 on MDC A ticket joined the newly formed CCC.

MDC A National Spokesman Witness Dube has already hinted that all Mutare councillors were MDC A members since CCC was formed last week.

“All councillors belong to MDC-Alliance. CCC was formed last week my brother, how can a new part have a councillor? The results will give us an MDC Alliance councillor,” Dube said.

Dube said they were still waiting for an election update from their for local government before any action could be taken.

Chabuka on Thursday won the Mutare mayoral post in a tightly contested race against deputy mayor Farai Bhiza of the MDC-T.

In an election conducted Thursday morning at Civic Centre, Chabuka polled six votes against Bhiza’s five.

The elated Chabuka has already started issuing promises.

“I would like to give assurance that we will try our level best to serve the interests of Mutare’s residents and citizens of Zimbabwe at large,” Chabuka said.

“That assurance is guaranteed. We have an open-door policy for those with grievances to be addressed, opinions, suggestions and anything that leads to the development of the city.”

CCC Manicaland spokesperson David Panganayi said the polls proved that Nelson Chamisa’s party has got support ahead of the March 26 by-elections.

“We are very happy for Chabuka. Justice seems to be prevailing as far as that particular vote is concerned. I am sure the citizens of Mutare will give him necessary support. This is probably the tip of an iceberg, and we hope to do better on the 26^th of March,” Panganayi said.

“We have 11 councillors at Civic Centre and judging from the result six of them supported Chamisa whilst four of them supported Mwonzora. We suspect that the independent councillor from ward 19 must have voted for Mwonzora,” Panganayi said.