The inauguration of Zimbabwe’s newly-elected president, Emmerson Mnangagwa has been put on hold as the main opposition party in the country has officially challenged the July 30 presidential election.

Barely hours after lawyers for the alliance of the Movement for Democratic Change ( MDC) filed its suit, the country’s Justice Minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi said the event which was scheduled to take place on August 10 would no longer hold.

“It will no longer happen. For now it has been stayed pending determination of the court challenge,” Ziyambi told reporters.

Lawyers for the MDC, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party had on Friday afternoon filed papers at the coountry’s Constitutional Court, challenging the election of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Led by Nelson Chamisa, its leader and candidate in the contested presidential polls, the MDC lawyers arrived at the court premises in the country’s capital, Harare to file papers on the deadline for submission of electoral challenges.

The 40-year-old Chamisa who lost the July 30 polls to Mnangagwa claims that he has overwhelming evidence at his disposal to show that he was cheated out of the presidential election.

“Our legal team successfully filed our court papers. We have a good case and cause!!” Chamisa tweeted on Sunday.

The court has two weeks to make a ruling on the case. MDC Alliance lawyers say they want the inauguration put on hold and the election results overturned as they claim to have vital poll papers, V11 forms, that show an attempt to tamper with figures.