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| 'It Was Me Who Urged Mugabe to Resign,' Says Wife Grace |
| 2018-03-19 |
| [All Africa] 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 presser 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 news hounds that last November's takeover was a "military coup" - a phrase his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa has done everything to avoid. |
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