Former Highlanders and Coventry City football player Peter Ndlovu is set to take on Emmerson Mnangagwa and Nelson Chamisa in the 2023 presidential elections.
APP interim leader Sabastian Mubvumbi has confirmed that Peter Ndlovu will lead the party and the former Coventry City striker has also warmed up to the idea.
Popularly known as Nsukuzonke during his heydays at Highlanders Football Club, Ndlovu is now team manager at Mamelodi Sundowns FC in neighbouring South Africa.
The APP said in 2023, Ndlovu would battle it out with the Zanu PF presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa, MDC Alliance’s Nelson Chamisa, MDC-T’s Douglas Mwonzora and other presidential aspirants for the hot seat.
He will not be the first African soccer player to venture into active party politics.
Liberian President George Weah, a former world soccer star of the year, got the most votes in the first ballot in his first contest for the presidential elections in his native land in 2005.
