He was a United Party for National Development cadre before the 2006 general election when the UPND was by far the biggest opposition party and quickly rose through the ranks but it was his subsequent association with the late President Michael Sata that brought him to prominence...
Several important figures in the Patriotic Front have defected to the opposition UPND among them Guy Scott the former Vice President who took over the top job briefly after the death of his friend and ally President Michael Sata...
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Although the Post was seen as supportive of the PF government under President Michael Sata it opposed Edgar Lungu's ascendancy to the Presidency in 2015 which seems to have triggered the paper's current problems...
From the left Lungu has to see off a challenge from the Democratic Front a new party which has split from the PF and is led by the late President Michael Sata's nephew Miles Sampa (AC Vol 56 No 23 PF scrambles for support)...
Former Vice-President Guy Scott who was part of the PF's more radical strand which is sometimes called 'the cartel' and included President Michael Sata and former PF Secretary General Wynter Kabimba said that Sampa felt 'humiliated' that top cabinet positions had been given to close associates of Banda...
Under the late President Michael Sata the government decided to front-load investment in infrastructure says Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba...
Chikwanda took advantage of the late President Michael Sata's flagging health to manipulate new legislation that abolished the corporate tax for mining firms and set higher mineral royalty levels say cabinet sources...
Under the growing influence of former President Rupiah Banda President Edgar Lungu is turning the governing Patriotic Front away from the left-leaning legacy of the late Michael Sata...
Kambwili who challenged Lungu for the succession as PF leader to the late Michael Sata is upset that former fierce critics of Sata such as Dora Siliya who was Information Minister in ex-President Banda's Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government are now ensconced in the PF and taking a leading role in planning Lungu's election campaign next year...
'After the demise of our president Michael Sata we went through a very very dangerous political turbulence our party was almost coming to extinction but by the grace of God we managed to hold together came back together as PF and we won [the presidential election] in January 2015 ' Musonda said...
The last two clashed with Nchito during his time prosecuting corruption cases under the late presidents Levy Mwanawasa and Michael Sata...
Nchito himself had tried something similar in 2012 when he complained to the then President Michael Sata about High Court judges Nigel Mutuna and Charles Kajimanga and former Supreme Court judge Philip Musonda (AC Vol 53 No 13 Sata takes on the judges)...
This marks the fulfilment of the unspoken promise by Lungu to his private sector backers that his presidency would be 'pro-business' in spite of the radical reputation of the governing Patriotic Front (PF) and the pro-tax policies of his predecessors the late President Michael Sata and acting President Guy Scott...
His latest illness has put pressure on the credibility of the presidency: two recent predecessors Levy Mwanawasa and Michael Sata died in harness while concealing the severity of their condition...
