92-year-old Robert Mugabe confirms Mugabe as 2018 Presidential election candidate

92-year-old Robert Mugabe confirms Mugabe as 2018 Presidential election candidate

President Robert Mugabe chanting “tongai, tongai baba” (rule, rule father) have endorsed the 92-year-old leader for a 2018 election run

The endorsement, which is likely to result in his 36-year rule being extended, was greeted with thunderous applause by thousands of party faithful attending the ruling ZANU-PF’s annual conference


Mugabe accepted dressed in a green floral jacket bearing his own portrait and a map of Zimbabwe.
The veteran leader has held power since independence from British colonial rule in 1980 and has always avoided naming a successor or laying out plans to retire


He once joked that he would rule until he turned 100.