Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika

He also has backing from figures such as Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika (a Movement for Multiparty Democracy founder) Mulenga Kapwepwe (daughter of late Vice-President Simon Kapwepwe) and youth firebrand Binwell Mpundu an independent former MP...

Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika became the new Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority Managing Director in February and boosted by a new US$39...

The influential former Finance Minister and current party National Secretary Katele Kalumba has ruled himself out of the running and is backing Banda who is also supported by founder members of the MMD including the former Ambassador to Libya Mbita Chitala former Information Minister Vernon Johnson Mwaanga and the academic Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika...

Insiders say he will be replaced by Mwanawasa's old friend Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika a founder member of the MMD and its first National Secretary who quit in 1993 to form his own party and who was humiliated by President Chiluba in the 1996 presidential election...

Other parties are negotiating a unity ticket: National Citizens Coalition (NCC) of tele-evangelist Nevers Mumba; Social Democratic Party (SDP) led by Gwendoline Konie; Agenda for Zambia (AZ) under Akashambatwa Lewanika and Tilyenji Kaunda of KK's formerly ruling United National Independence Party (UNIP)...

' opposition leader Akashambatwa Lewanika asked his colleagues...

Akashambatwa Lewanika's party Agenda for Zambia seems not to exist at all despite having a seat in parliament; it broke out of the initial ZAP alliance and stands alone...

• Zambia Alliance for Progress (ZAP) is a merger announced on 3 May of six opposition parties and a pressure group: Akashambatwa Mbikusita Lewanika's Agenda for Zambia; the Labour Party; self-exiled Rodger Chongwe's Liberal Progressive Front; Guy Scott's LIMA Party; Nevers Mumba's National Citizens' Coalition; Dean Mung'omba's Zambia Democratic Congress; Sylvia Masebo's National Pressure Group...