ZANU-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa accused mission leader and former Vice-President of Zambia Nevers Mumba of being unfit and biased...
The final SEOM report which the Zimbabwe government has 90 days to respond to appears to have been tempered since the initial statement by SEOM leader Nevers Mumba...
State media accused the head of mission former Zambian vice-president Nevers Mumba of being a western proxy a convicted criminal and 'mentally ill'...
However the infusion of former PF top brass such as Hichilema's running mate Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba Miles Sampa Scott Sylvia Masebo and former televangelist and Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) President Nevers Mumba has increased Hichilema's appeal to the grassroots especially in the influential Bemba-speaking region...
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...
He was duly chosen by the MMD which he had created and funded as its candidate for the presidency to the exclusion and anger of Nevers Mumba MMD leader ever since Banda now 77 stepped down as party president in 2012...
MMD leader Nevers Mumba is still disputing the party's selection of former President Banda as its candidate but he is extremely unlikely to succeed...
Nevers Sekwila Mumba Banda's successor as party leader also insists he will be the MMD's candidate...
After losing the election to Sata in 2011 he did not imagine he would have another chance so soon and therefore allowed Nevers Mumba to take over the leadership of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy...
The evangelical cleric and leader of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy Nevers Mumba is struggling amid strong criticism from senior members of his own party...
