‘I am not anybody’s plan B’, Mkhize on rumours he’s Zuma’s back-up candidate

ANC treasurer-general and presidential candidate, Zweli Mkhize, has reportedly hit out at those labelling him President Jacob Zuma’s “plan B” in the governing party’s succession race, saying he has the experience and capability to lead the 105-year-old organisation in his own right.

In an interview with City Press, Mkhize said he was neither Zuma’s pawn nor anti-Zuma in his ANC presidential campaign. He told the paper his central message was unity and rebuilding the party.

“The notion that I am a back-up plan does a great disservice and injustice to my experience and capabilities. I am not anybody’s plan B,” said Mkhize.

“I am Zweli Mkhize, a member of the ANC who has accepted the call by party structures to avail myself to lead the ANC.”

Mkhize said the notion that he was Zuma’s back-up candidate in the event that the president’s preferred candidate, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, thrashed was “mischievous and meant to distract us from focusing on the real priority at hand, which is to unify and rebuild the ANC”.

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