Such popularity remains a distant goal for Samia although ex-President Jakaya Kikwete opined cryptically recently 'There is no politician who is more popular than President Samia in Tanzania at present...
While her personal base in the party has usually been described as weak she has been supported by heavyweights like ex-President Jakaya Kikwete and ex-Prime Minister Edward Lowassa (Dispatches 7/2/22 An eye on elections President Hassan sidelines a challenger)...
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A veteran diplomat with over 30 years of foreign policy experience Mulamula was an ally of former President Jakaya Kikwete (AC Vol 50 No 15 Eastern foes at war again) and had been handpicked by President Hassan...
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The Panel of Elders (PoE) includes former Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete and former Mauritian Vice-President Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory who were appointed chair and deputy of the PoE...
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In the reshuffle President Hassan left the ministries of finance defence energy tourism and foreign affairs unchanged while appointing to ministerial posts several key supporters of former President Jakaya Kikwete including Nape Nnauye and Ridhiwani Kikwete his son (AC Vol 62 No 7 Life after the bulldozer)...
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Chairing Tanesco's new board is Omari Issa who oversaw the last attempt at unbundling the company as head of President Jakaya Kikwete's Big Results Now (BRN) initiative (AC Vol 58 No 5 Sour fate of sugar project)...
This board suggests a return to the priorities of President Jakaya Kikwete's administration...
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An assistant to former President Jakaya Kikwete Makamba was President John Magufuli's environment minister until July 2019 when he was sacked ostensibly for poor performance...
Yet the two met at Banda's home on 16 August after Lungu's concession speech the encounter reportedly brokered by the head of the Commonwealth observer mission Tanzania's ex-President Jakaya Kikwete and the head of the African Union observer mission Sierra Leone's ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma...
How Samia addresses these issues in practice is reminiscent of the administration of her chief political backer, Jakaya Kikwete, with the competing factions within the party leading to patchy implementation, and political weakness as she seeks to placate different interest groups (AC Vol 62 No 7, Life after the bulldozer)...
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Under President Jakaya Kikwete Aziz had been a kingmaker and treasurer in the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi before falling out of grace...
The two most prominent relatives are Magufuli's nephew the permanent secretary of the finance ministry Doto James and the president's Secretary Ngusa Samike who was the family spokesperson at the funeral and was with Magufuli since his days as Minister for Livestock and Fisheries under President Jakaya Kikwete...
Former President Jakaya Kikwete alluded to it when recounting how he was informed by text message that Magufuli was dead...
