HARARE - Zanu PF has rubbished American President Barack Obama’s move to snub President Robert Mugabe, saying they will not lose sleep over the matter.
Obama plans to exclude Mugabe when he invites 47 leaders to a landmark US-Africa summit in August, seeking to widen US trade, development and security ties with an increasingly dynamic continent to which he traces part of his ancestry.
Obama will send out invites to all African nations that are currently in good relations with the United States or are not suspended from the African Union, meaning there is no space for states such as Zimbabwe and Egypt.
“There is nothing surprising from Obama’s actions,” Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo told the Daily News.
“They are very hostile. There is a war against Zimbabwe, they don’t recognise our elections and they imposed sanctions on us.
“We should not focus on these foreign countries but we should focus on what we do for do for ourselves.”
The Zanu PF spokesperson said rather than worrying about Obama’s stance, his party was seized with crafting policies that will attract investment.
“We should change our policies to attract foreign direct investment. As Zimbabweans, we should always develop a consensus so that we work together for the development of the nation,” Gumbo said.