Edward Ngoyai Lowassa

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)...

The sheer size of opposition political rallies in recent weeks shows that the defection of former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa to the opposition Chama cha Maendeleo na Demokrasia (Chadema) party has stirred up Tanzania's largely apathetic political environment...

Before the party Central Committee made its final selection from a field of 38 it had been widely assumed that former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa was a shoo-in for the party leadership because of the amount of money he could call on despite having resigned the premiership in 2008 in the midst of the Richmond corruption scandal (AC Vol 53 No 10 Lowassa plans his comeback )...

The current front-runner is former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa...

Pundits point to the example of former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa who was forced to resign in February 2008 over a similar scandal involving electricity supply contracts and yet remains a considerable force within the governing party (AC Vol 53 No 10 Lowassa plans his comeback)...

As if to underline the fact that little in the world of governance has changed in the past nine years former Attorney General Andrew Chenge and former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa are back in positions of prominence...

Ever since last August when Tanzania's former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa who chairs the Parliamentary Committee for Defence Security and Foreign Affairs said his country might be prepared to go to war over the border tensions have been rising...

One is former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa who resigned in February 2008 after he was linked to the Richmond power scandal (AC Vol 53 No 9)...

All eyes are on former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa who resigned in January 2008 over the Richmond-Dowans scandal (AC Vol 52 No 13 The battle to succeed Kikwete)...

Former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa who resigned in January 2008 over the Richmond scandal (AC Vol 49 No 4 Cleaning the stables) has described Tanzania’s youth bulge as a ‘time bomb’ and in recent months has crafted each public appearance around the need for youth employment...