Under the growing influence of former President Rupiah Banda President Edgar Lungu is turning the governing Patriotic Front away from the left-leaning legacy of the late Michael Sata...
Lungu is also indebted to ex-President Rupiah Banda who is still on trial over a Nigerian oil import deal that the state claims was corrupt...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has asked the Lusaka High Court to order Rupiah Banda to present his defence in his trial on the Nigerian charges...
President Edgar Lungu has been having trouble fulfilling his reported promise to ex-President Rupiah Banda to get the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mutembo Nchito off his back...
However Lungu was able to profit from the total collapse of the vote for the Movement for Multi-party Democracy after former President Rupiah Banda first tried to supplant Nevers Mumba as the party's candidate and then when he failed threw his weight behind the PF...
The presidential candidate of the governing Patriotic Front Edgar Lungu has surprised Zambians by joining forces with former President Rupiah Banda whose Movement for Multiparty Democracy was defeated by the PF in the 2011 general elections...
It is also expected that Rupiah Banda's immunity from prosecution – a privilege given to heads and former heads of state – will be restored...
Now we understand even though last-ditch attempts to bring former President Rupiah Banda into an electoral pact with the UPND are still being made the South African interests are ready to put their muscle behind Hichilema...
Their efforts have not been helped by former President Rupiah Banda's announcement on 17 November that he will stand on the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ticket...
They were trying to persuade Rupiah Banda who is 77 to back the younger Hichilema in the presidential election in an electoral pact according to a source close to one of the participants...
Former President Rupiah Banda is likely to step into the race and some activists want him to lead an opposition alliance...
Although he is seen as a political lightweight Mulenga Sata has broad appeal and gets on well with Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda the unofficial leader of the PF anti-Kabimba faction and with former President Rupiah Banda...
Once the voice of the opposition to former President Rupiah Banda The Post is now seen as a mouthpiece for the Patriotic Front government...
