Grace, the wife of Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe, has expressed confidence over the popularity of her 92-year-old husband in the country, stressing that even as a corpse in the next year’s poll, Mugabe could win the election.
She made the observation while addressing a rally of the governing Zanu-PF party in Buhera, south-east of the capital Harare.
Mrs Mugabe who has often professed her undying loyalty to her husband, said ‘’one day when God decides that Mugabe dies, we will have his corpse appear as a candidate on the ballot paper,”
“You will see people voting for Mugabe as a corpse. I am seriously telling you, just to show people how people love their president.”
Mr Mugabe has governed Zimbabwe since the end of white-majority rule in 1980 following a bitterly fought war.
President Mugabe has been backed by his party to stand again in the next years election but recently cut back on his public engagements.