Zimbabweans want me to stand for elections because there's no viable replacement - Mugabe

Just less than three days after Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe caused controversy with her comments that Zimbabweans will still vote for the corpse of her 92-year old husband, Robert Mugabe if he was dead and his corpse was to run for an election, president Mugabe has come out again to say that Zimbabweans want him to continue as their president because they see no viable alternative candidate.


Zimbabwe's people and the ruling ZANU-PF party see no viable alternative candidate for the general elections in 2018, Mugabe was quoted as say by state media.

"They want me to stand for elections, they want me to stand for elections everywhere in the party," Mugabe said on Sunday.

"The majority of the people feel that there is no replacement, successor who to them is acceptable, as acceptable as I am," he added.

The president went further to say he was not ready to step down anytime soon.

"Of course if I feel that I can't do it any more, I will say so to my party so that they relieve me. But for now I think I can't say so," Mugabe said.

Mugabe who has ruled the country since 1980 when the country got independence will turn 93 on Tuesday February 21.