Daniel Shumba

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Daniel Shumba is a former Zimbabwe Army colonel and Masvingo provincial chairman of the ZANU-PF political party. In 2006, he left the party in a fallout over the unresolved issue of Robert Mugabe succession. Later in that year, he announced the creation of his own party, the United People's Party. He was denied the chance to run in the 2008 Zimbabwean presidential election supposedly for arriving late to the nomination court. During the subsequent vote counting and delayed releasing of results, he sided with the Movement for Democratic Change in claiming the Zimbabwe Election Commission was deliberately buying time for the ZANU-PF to rig the results.