Popular award winning Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, has ruled out ever running for office in Zimbabwe.

Chin’ono wrote:

I have been asked in my inboxes so many times if I will run for office, the unequivocal answer is a big NO!

Running for office takes away my freedom of thought because I have to tow a line, it takes away my journalistic freedoms.

I am preparing for my PhD studies.

Case closed!