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Gen Solomon Mujuru told President Robert Mugabe to step down on 10 March 2008 but Mugabe instead went ahead to tell the press that Mujuru was fully behind him and not former Finance Minister Simba Makoni who was the third presidential candidate.

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President Robert Mugabe declared two weeks before the elections that he had the support of former army commander Solomon Mujuru but United States embassy officials who still believed that Mujuru was behind Makoni said he could be deceiving Mugabe.

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President Robert Mugabe was still leading in an opinion poll conducted by the Mass Public Opinion Institute a month before the 2008 elections but lost to Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai though Tsvangirai did not score an outright victory.

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Giles Mutsekwa, the co-Minister of Home Affairs who had signed an order allowing the government to take control of the Kingdom Meikles Group, said he regretted the move.

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Co-Home Affairs Minister Giles Mutsekwa signed an order allowing the government to appoint an administrator for blue-chip Zimbabwean firm Kingdom Meikles claiming that the group had violated foreign exchange controls.

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Ibbo Mandaza who had become Simba Makoni’s principal supporter in the 2008 presidential campaign was hopeful that former army commander Solomon Mujuru, who he said was a Makoni backer, would come out publicly before the elections.

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Nominations for the 2008 elections revealed signs of potential trouble for the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front as several candidates who were defeated in the primary elections registered as ZANU-PF candidates to oppose the party’s official candidates.

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President Robert Mugabe is keeping his lieutenants in line because he has dossiers on their illegal activities which he can use to get them arrested should they challenge him.

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Movement for Democratic Change Mutambara faction secretary general Welshman Ncube said on 29 January 2008 the Southern African Development Community sponsored talks between the MDC and the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front were dead.

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South African President Thabo Mbeki who was the chief negotiator in Zimbabwe was going to push for international observers in the 2008 elections because he was concerned about their credibility.

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