President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace arrive to chair ZANU PF's Politburo meeting at the party headquarters in Harare, Zimbabwe, February 15, 2017. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was quoted as saying on Sunday that his ZANU-PF party and the people saw no viable successor to him for general elections in 2018.
"They want me to stand for elections, they want me to stand for elections everywhere in the party ... The majority of the people feel that there is no replacement, successor who to them is acceptable, as acceptable as I am," he said in comments to state media ahead of his 93rd birthday this coming week.
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