Mugabe to drag COPAC to the courts over national report

President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF is mulling filing a court application that is meant to compel, the Constitutional Select Committee (COPAC) to release the national report before the all stake holders' conference, a party member has said.

Addressing a public meeting organized by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network,Goodson Nguni said Mugabe would soon drag COPAC to the courts, adding the 88 year old Zanu PF leader would not climb-down on his anti draft stance.

Nguni argued that the revolutionary party would not take the SADC facilitation team's advice as it was against their stance , setting a stage for a potential deadlock on the draft constitution once again.

"We are going to take COPAC to court to see whether what is captured in the draft is expressive of the national report", he said.

"The MDC formations can bribe Jacob Zuma and everyone around him; pour millions of dollars in his pocket but that wont work.

"Mugabe will simply tell SADC to go to hell and he is just about to do that", declared Nguni.

Mugabe's Zanu PF performed a major decline on their initial radical stance of rewriting the draft when they conceded that the Copac draft be taken to the All stakeholders Conference scheduled for early October.

Prior to their u-turn, Zanu PF's politburo sat a string of four marathon meetings in which they even wrote an alternative draft.

But the revolutionary party's announcement last week that they would adopt the COPAC draft at the imminent All-stakeholders conference had quashed fears of the GNU's possible degeneration into turmoil.

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