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...
Seeming party dissidents such as Nape Nnauye or Hussein Bashe will remain within the party at all costs playing a long game to the 2025 elections when President Magufuli will be expected to stand down...
Before the start of CCM's party assembly in Dodoma in March two of its MPs Hussein Bashe and Joseph Msukuma were detained by police on suspicion of conspiring to cause trouble at the assembly...
