Vol 66 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
Having seen off a trio of prominent rivals last year – ex-foreign minister January Makamba and ex-information minister Nape Nnauye (both sacked for plotting against her) and accepting the resignation of party vice-chair Abdurahman Kinana long regarded as part of the CCM aristocracy – Samia's nomination as the party's presidential contender at January's special National Congress in Dodoma was a formality...
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Former technology minister Nape Nnauye even said in July his party uses both lawful and unlawful means to win elections...
Days later Foreign Minister January Makamba and Minister of Information Communication and Information Technology Nape Nnauye were sacked amid rumours that they were secretly plotting to challenge Samia's re-election bid...
She has removed key Magufuli appointees and allies such as parliamentary speaker Job Ndugai who backed the abolition of presidential term limits when Magufuli was president and Bashiru Ali Magufuli's CCM Secretary General and rehabilitated younger figures such as January Makamba Nape Nnauye and their cohort who had been ritually humiliated by Magufuli (AC Vol 60 No 19 Magufuli's challengers recant)...
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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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Key figures are Kikwete himself his former assistant January Makamba former party Secretary-General Abdulrahman Kinana and members of parliament Nape Nnauye and Ridhiwani Kikwete the former president's son...
Still ambitious though maybe not so young Turks in the CCM such as January Makamba and Nape Nnauye will position themselves as loyalists for the duration of the campaign looking for opportunities over the coming five years (AC Vol 60 No 19 Magufuli's challengers recant)...
Nape Nnauye MP former minister and former party ideology secretary was made to publicly apologise to President Magufuli on 10 September...
An exception was former minister Nape Nnauye MP for a cashew-producing constituency in Lindi who was sacked by Magufuli for criticising the controversial Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Paul Makonda one of Magufuli's key allies (AC Vol 59 No 7 Enemies without and within)...
The account was used to link Kabwe to CCM MPs Nape Nnauye and January Makamba...