The MMD has wilted under the onslaught and its new leader Nevers Mumba does not possess the ammunition for a counter-attack...
He is also from a small ethnic minority and not being a Bemba-speaker could cause him to suffer politically especially at the hands of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy’s Nevers Mumba...
The two main opposition leaders Nevers Mumba of the MMD and Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development face a string of charges including corruption defamation unlawful assembly and publishing false information...
Nevers Mumba who draws support from ex-President Banda is trying to bring the party closer to Hichilema’s UPND and a merger is possible (AC Vol 53 No 21 Ex-President Banda switches horses)...
MMD leader Nevers Mumba and Hichilema have been taking every opportunity to complain about Sata especially to the British High Commissioner James Thornton and the United States Ambassador Mark C...
Vol 49 No 18 |
- ZAMBIA
- ANALYSIS
Two former Vice-Presidents Nevers Sekwila Mumba and Enoch Percy Kavindele both of whom were sacked by Mwanawasa have thrown their hats into the crowded ring...
Other aspirants for the MMD ticket include former Vice- Presidents Enoch Percy Kavindele and Nevers Sekwila Mumba Home Affairs Minister Ronnie Shikapwasha Health Minister Brian Chituwo former Special Assistant to the President Sebastian Kopulande and former Works and Supply Minister Ludwig Sondashi...
Former Vice-President Nevers Sekwila Mumba of the Reform Party (RP) opted for Sata and applied for a PF parliamentary seat in the north where PF members roundly rejected him...
Other contenders are: former Vice-President General Godfrey Miyanda of Heritage Party; another ex-Vice-President Nevers Mumba of Reform Party; and former Defence Minister Ben Mwila of the National Democratic Focus...
Its interim leader former Vice-President Nevers Mumba now heads the Reform Party...
The President's main rival former Vice-President Nevers Mumba (strongly backed by ex-President Frederick Chiluba) was sacked from the party for accusing Mwanawasa and his wife Maureen of using state funds to buy convention votes...
