Zim Now Writer
Disputed Citizens Coalition for Change secretary-general, Sengezo Tshabangu, has filed an urgent application at the High Court, seeking an injunction to prevent 23 candidates affiliated with the CCC from taking part in the February 3 by-elections.
The 23 CCC candidates successfully submitted their nomination papers at the Nomination Court on December 18, 2023, despite a prior High Court directive that had prohibited other party members from competing under the CCC banner.
The court order was based on the assertion that these individuals had ceased to be members of the party before the by-elections held on December 9, 2023.
In the application, presented by his legal representative Nqobani Sithole of Ncube Attorneys, Tshabangu, who identifies himself as the CCC interim secretary-general, named the 23 candidates and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission as respondents.
The candidates subject to the recall, Tshabangu argued, are no longer CCC members and, therefore, should not be allowed to contest under the party’s name.
“The application is made on the grounds that: On the 18th of December 2023, the Nomination Court sat consequent upon promulgation of the date for by-elections set down on the 3rd of February 2024.
“First to twenty-third respondents submitted their nomination papers before the Nomination Court to be accepted as candidates in the by-election as ‘members’ of a political party called Citizens Coalition for Change party.
“This was despite the fact that in a prior and extant judgement, they had been found by this court to have ceased to be members of that party. The Nomination Court accepted the nomination papers.
“The decision of the Nomination Court is unlawful in that it is contrary to an extant judgment of the High Court and was at any rate procured through an apparent act of defiance of that judgment,” part of the application reads.
The application seeks the court to set aside the Nomination Court’s decision to accept the 23 members’ nomination papers.
To avoid disqualification, some recalled CCC members filed their papers as independent candidates for the February 3 by-elections.
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