Zanu PF says President Mugabe deserves a second term as chairman of the African Union.The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs says African ambassadors and African Union (AU) commissioners based in Ethiopia also want Mugabe to be given a role to guide the current crop of African leaders in fulfilling outstanding goals of the AU.
Chairperson of the portfolio committee, Kindness Paradza led a Zimbabwean delegation to Ethiopia recently on a fact finding mission and reported on his return that President Mugabe's leadership is admired by the AU staff.
"The majority of African ambassadors in Addis Ababa and AU commissioners had a consensus that if it was possible, President Mugabe would be given a second term as chairman or assume any other supreme role to fulfill the Pan-African vision of the continental body," he said.
Cde Paradza added that Cde Mugabe was credited for successfully spearheading a number of initiatives which brought back the AU union on the world map in areas such as health where he chaired the Ebola high level conference to curb the epidemic, the Sino-Africa Summit and led the AU to effectively deal with conflicts arising in Africa.
President Mugabe will hand over the AU chair at the forthcoming summit to be held in Addis Ababa this week.