Edward Ngoyai Lowassa

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)...

Also in this group is the former prime minister Edward Lowassa and former Secretary General of the CCM Abdulrahman Kinana...

It was established in 2013 by President Kikwete as one of a number of party reforms to stymie Edward Lowassa's bid for the presidency (AC Vol 53 No 10 Lowassa plans his comeback)...

Rostam Aziz who threw in his lot with the former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa as the opposition Chadema's candidate in the 2015 elections has returned from de facto exile in Dubai and Hong Kong...

Hussein Bashe MP who was not previously known for liberal credentials and led former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa's bid to be CCM's presidential candidate has suddenly become an advocate of free speech and the competition of ideas...

As he is out of politics and was close to the then Prime Minister Edward Lowassa who had to resign over corruption allegations in 2008 he may make an easy target...

He has also dismissed high-ranking CCM personalities and many rank-and-file members for siding with former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa's faction of the party and threatened his own MPs for planning to impeach Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa in protest at executive interference with parliamentary business...

Former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa will continue to work quietly with his party the Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) in preparation for 2020...

One newspaper Mawio and two local radio stations have been banned one of them owned by former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa Chadema's presidential candidate last year...

For the opposition Umoja wa Katiba ya Wananchi/Coalition of Defenders of the People's Constitution (Ukawa) the gamble on Edward Lowassa as presidential candidate didn't pay off...

Anonymous sock puppet accounts popped up everywhere while viral video clips ranging from presidential candidate Edward Lowassa calling for a Lutheran president to Magufuli doing press-ups on stage in Karagwe kept people outraged and entertained in equal measure...

This has been fuelled mainly by the presidential candidacy of Edward Ngoyai Lowassa a long-time CCM stalwart who quarrelled with the outgoing President Jakaya Kikwete and defected to the opposition Chama cha Maendeleo na Demokrasia (Chadema) three months ago (AC Vol 56 No 15 CCM springs surprise & Vol 56 No 17 'Lowassa fever' catching)...