Jere, Benza gun for Zanu PF primaries

Zim Now Writer

Two prominent sports administrators who own Premiership clubs, Innocent Benza, who plays for and owns Herentals FC and Farai Jere, the CAPS United as well as Castle Lager Premier Soccer League president, will contest in the weekend Zanu PF primaries.

Both administrators, who are also successful businesspersons, are eyeing National Assembly seats where Jere has set his sights on the Murewa West constituency in Mashonaland East Province while Benza wants the right to represent Mutasa Central constituency in Manicaland Province.

The primary elections are the revolutionary party’s roadmap to the harmonised elections which are due later this year.

The two are not the first football administrators to seek a political office after former Zifa president Phillip Chiyangwa and his deputy Omega Sibanda, as well as interim Zifa president, Gift Banda, successfully ran for office as legislators.