Why did Mugabe not get a friend to set up a rival party fund them and call it a democracy?

Question

Not that that i'm a fan of president mugabe but if he had done this and made the election process very expensive he wouldnt have had to rig elecions etcs like the US and Uk system.

Answer 1

Why bother, he doesn't care if he looks legitimate or not, so long as he's in power.