Acting President Rupiah Banda has said he joined the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) when he bought the party membership card in 2002.
Mr. Banda said although he did not publicly announce his resignation from the United National Independence Party (UNIP), he ceased to be a member when he bought an MMD membership card.
He said by virtue of buying the MMD membership card and renewing it every year, he naturally stopped being a member of the former ruling and oldest political party in the country.
“You don’t need to announce when you resign from one political party just as you don’t announce when you join another party,” he said.
He said he was also elected as a trustee of the MMD, a move that consolidated his membership in the ruling party.
This has allayed speculations that have been going on in the recent past about Mr. Banda’s candidature for the forthcoming presidential election under the MMD ticket.
He said since UNIP was the seed of all political parties in the country, many Zambians of his age, who were politicians once, naturally belonged to the party.
Mr. Banda said this when he featured live on Mano Community Radio Station in Kasama last evening.
The Acting President has meanwhile expressed optimism that Zambians would vote for him on October 30th, 2008 because of his vast experience in politics, Government and diplomatic service.
He said he was the best candidate among all other contestants of the republican presidency because he had rich curriculum vitae and experience as well as successful management of the country as a vice president and as acting president.
He explained that he served in cabinet as a Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as Minister of Mines.
He also served as ambassador to the United States of America and the United Nations and also acted as President of Namibia under the SWAPO, the position he said was out of the trust the UN had in him.
ENDS/KSH/PK/ZANIS.
Tata lesa webufi ulakula. Ba sugar dad just enjoy the few weeks you have in office before the boat takes over.
RB ndelombako sugar please!!!!!!!!11
If indeed he joined the MMD in 2002 why did he tell the Amos Malupenga in 2003 that he was a UNIPIST?
hey, LT, where is my posting- in abeyance?!
HERE IN RUSSIA WE HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO BEGGARS. THE IRRESPONSIBLE PEOPLE ARE NOT EVEN SAYING NOTHING ABOUT OUR LITTLE ALLOWANCES. RIGHT NOW AM BEGGING FOR INTERNET FROM MY ANGOLAN FRIEND. SHAME MMD
beggar take alot of VODKA and you will feel warm. too bad just come home swallow your pride and learn at lusaka trades
ZAMBIA WILL GET THE PRESIDENT IT DESERVES – REALLY A COUNTRY LIKE ZAMBIA WITH SO MUCH POTENTIAL CAN NOT HAVE A THUG LIKE SATA FOR PRESIDENT. JUST IMAGINE SATA AT THE UN REPRESENTING ZAMBIA – TALKING TO OBAMA, SAKOZY OR GORDON BROWN. I CAN ONLY SUSPECT THAT THE ONLY SUPPORT HE HAS IS DRIVEN BY TRIBAL SENTIMENT NOT LOGIC – TO MANY INTELLIGENT ZAMBIANS BLINDED BY TRIBALISM.
If RB is really continuing where LPM left , how can he bring VJ back who was fired by a principaled man? And why didn`t he let Magande take over if LPM prefered him than RB.
And guys who says Michael Sata is ugly? have you seen the picture of RB in the post yesterday?. I can`t differeciet it from that of a frog. did just the post use phoptoshop on the computer to let him look like that or is just the way he looks? Mwanawasa was handsome.
RB will tell us anything we want to hear to win the next election. liar! he didn’t sign the salary bill because it will make him unpopular. All these politicians do not have the suffering of the common zambian at heart. they are merely interested in their own pockets! i am sure the chiefs he has been seeing have been well paid so that they can gather him some support. why else would they be closed door meetings.. more like closed door bribery!
Improve your services plz LT.Sometymz i tend to get some messege that pop up that i have been sending messeges so quickly even if it happens to be the first messege that i send in a day.
Boza ni boza. Uyu banda, ndipo ali na wenye ngako. This chap eacts with two hands – he bought MMD ticket in the morning while keeping his UNIP card in the night. Only when he saw KK was not bouncing back, then he crawls to BE MMD! Boza uyu munthu, ni wa wenye. He is a strange OLD double dealer, beware countrymen. Mind you, with VJ in, expected the highest level of corruption and crookedness in RB’s tactics. BUT, WE THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA, would not let him get away with murder of our votes on Oct 30. Ni UNIP munthu uyu. We won’t eat his CV and experience. What he HAS DONE FOR YOU AND ME BEFORE NOW?
#BEGGAR. I think internet is luxury for you, why get reduced to a beggar over internet? did u have internet everyday in kanyama? just forget about internet, u don’t need to be a begger so as to just come and vomit you misery and self pity here.just wait for your BC if at all it will ever come in the near future. and don’t lie that the gvt hasn’t paid you for the last 6 months, iyo niboza!they have paid you up to August, if there are debts, then it is this month only, to be specific – 3 weeks starting from tomorrow. so just grow up boi or go back to zambia to vote. okay. one Zambia one nation, no offense. 🙂
Who says RB is more handsome than MC Sata? Sata ni ziii. After all, nga ti ayenda ku plot 1, we can also take him to Taiwan for facial make up. But, we are comfortable for he is handsome. Ala imwe, beauty is in the eyes of THE VOTERS. RB looks like an unhappy cook.
Ka fake membership card. pa zed anything is possible
Pa Bwatoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo please!!!!!!!!
RUPIAH has no VISION for Zambia.
During my intermittent and timely contributions,I`ve pointed out that RB has no direction.During high school we used to learn about the difference between VECTORS and SCALAR quantities.RB is a best example of a scalar (magnitude without direction).We need leaders that are PROACTIVE and not REACTIVE.His focus seems only to be reacting to the opposition and not tabulating what he`s got to offer the nation.
The only thing that`s going to help this tired recycled old politician get to plot 1 is through rigging.He seems clueless on being the top dog or bwanamukubwa.
The Acting President has a right to stand and so has any other Zambian.
The Registration Card entitles one to all privileges. Am I wrong? Our children need to know…..
Like said many times here “ignorance and false hope driven on lack of strategy is dangerously killing most of these sattelite titular parties on the scene.Two weeks ago i posted here with laughter after Sata in kafue resorted to malicious peddle this lie of UNIP membership.I did say RB joined MMD in 2002 exactlt what he has stated today.Further more, i said UNIP is the father of all political parties in the country while MMD is the mother.All others are satelite offshots without distinct values.To have served in UNIP is no disqualification to winning candidacy.
We’re not voting SATA for him to talk to Obama,Godon or Bush but we’re voting him for a rescue from ‘SUGAR DADYS & CADRES(Mulongoti) also to give us an intelligent Minister of sci & tech,not the dull PETER DAKA.
BEGGAR my friend, life is very short if you think you are not living properly in Russia, my advice is pack your bags.
RB will be elected and this will be a blessing in disguise for zed because we are going to see the difference a country can make in having a president who is committed to improving the lives of pipo.RB has a challenge to walk in levys shoes or he will be booted out in no time.He is been supported by pipo who have plundered the resources of our country.Unless he become a man of his own and improve the lives of pipo.He has got everything that he needs to be a successfull president but the pipo around hm will not le him and he owes it to them.The good news is that we will be going into another election in three years
Yaba ba tata imwe ba RB kwate ni ko insoni. All along we have had vegitables rulling our mother Zambia and you think u are differrent, who doesnt know that you are nyama soya. lekeni sata ateke tulipa bwato mwikatufwila. Ta twakwata ifilamba fyonse fyali kama……….
wow!! 2002 hmmmm.
#12,what are you trying to prove.
VJ is back to rig the elections and thats why RB has given him a oliver branch to do the damage to the Democracy we cry for. ZAF and OP are planning for transporting extra ballot papers in for gost voters.
i think Banda is a real magician for sure!!Did he really join MMD in 2002,????
RB thinks he is Sugar!!
RB was not born to be president of zambia.
What opportunism! How loyal! Ba muselela kwakaba!
RB’s MMD Card has backdated 2002. MMD is known for rigging and cheating.
STOP THESE LIES RUBBISH BIN .
every time RB opens his mouth he makes Sata to look very ignorant.please help sata to have facts right.
Sata has never resigned from MMD. He hasn’t even joined is own party. Rumour has it that he renewed his MMD card this year. He has no PF card up to know. the big man is loosing again.
viva RB, the post is panicking
ask those guys who want to be president of zambia what they will do to the emerald mines on CB. The mines are in the hands of foreigners who are now rich than the govt.what’s happening u politicians?
we all know that rupiah has been and will always be unip. zambians, we need to learn, this is what happens when you recycle politicians. i recently read some one say that we dont need an “unbaked politician” to rule our country. you cant bake something unitl you put it in the oven.
sata was unip then MMD not too sure about PF since they dont have membership cards. off to get my secret upnd card may need it in future. on the bwezani
please Zambians open your eyes. we are not at war of guns but war of poverty thus why you should vote for economic managers not hooligans. The world is global and those who understand should be favoured to rule zambia for the betterment of our children and children’s children. The plunderers have regrouped be alert.Hooligans are also preparing to take over mother zambia be alert. vote wisely not on tribal line but someone with the capacity to make us proud.
atase uli ndiwe waboza banda,tell the nation wen u joined mmd,infact u had no party abd levy just picked u from the farm,wenye
#8 Think Tank Northpole,
Your analysis of discrediting RB’s principles by not letting Magande be the MMD presidential candidate lacks objectivity. Firstly, both Magande and RB were subjected to a mini convetion and RB emerged the winner. Secondly, no one has any proof that Magande was LPM’S prefered candidate, all we know is that for some unclear reasons, the POST and few individuals like Maureen, Shakafuswa etc campaigned for Magande.
Can someone please post a detailed CV of comrade Sata. Atleast we have read and seen HH and RB’s CVs. We would love to analyse all the candidates nicely.
I wonder why Sata’s CV appears to be top secret.
#19 yoy right PETER DAKA is the most dull minister of science and technology i have ever seen,i think is not even CRAFT CERTIFICATE HOLDER,OR ADVANCED CERTIFICATE HOLDER IN ANY TECHNICAL FIELDS OR BUSINESS COURSE NEITHER IS HE A HOLDER OF DEGREE OR DIPLOMA IN ANY TECHNICAL /BUSINESS FIELDS SO one tend to wounder how he was given that post.so ni PA BWAAATOOO come 30/10/08,AND just i remainder to SATA and the PF NEC MEMBERS is that THE POST MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SHOULD BE RESERVED FOR PERIOD,
VOTE HH FOR PRESIDENT, WHY BRINGING THIS GRANDFATHERS TO BE RULLING US PLEASE! THE VIGILLANTE MENTALLITY HAVEN’T LEFT THERE HEADS
VIVA HH
VIVA HH
I WILL GIVE YOU MY VOTE COME OCT 30
I told you he is a Namibian.
I think if one reads between the lines, by now you will see that ba RB is not the right man for plot 1. He is not honest and I for one don’t know what he stands for, how do you trust such a person. As for those saying pa bwato – have you really forgotten what Sata is capable of? Do you remember that before the elections of 2006 he informed us he would forgive Chiluba and his cronies. Will not become another Mugabe once he sits in that position. Is he a statesman, is he even physically fit for this stressful job? Answer to the above-NO.
Unfortunately by default, the result is Hakainde for Pres. He seems the best candidate out of the 3.
I meant -will he not become another Mugabe
# 40 and #19 you guys seem to be contradicting yourselves, on one hand you are sayng hon. Peter daka has to no accademic qualification for him to be a minister. On the other you are sayng Sata who nobody knows whether he ever attended any tertially education should be president. you want someone with a prison record to be president and suggesting that a proffesional clearing agent can not be minister. i think you guys have gone tribal!!
Some arguments are really Shallow, KK who never went to unversity built alot of schools but when the new culture and new dealers came on the scene education system has simply collapsed.The best CV for any public officer is honesty. Can Sata,HH and RB explain where they got their money before we employ anyone of them for the top position.
Rupiah Banda never joined MMD at all even though he claims so. There are no records to show that did join. Can he produce any receipt to support his claim. Even at MMD secretariat, his name does not appear in the 2002 membership register.
Zambians, be aware that former Int. Chief VJ has joined RB’s team. VJ is behind the impending riging. Watch the next events.
Pabwato
Beware of Hon. Sata and RB! HH is the man of the moment for a real ray of change and hope for all Zambians to believe in. Vote HH for Zambian President come October 30, 2008.
Pabwato efyo bebele bane! Ine nalanda bane. Go PF Go Michael Chilufya Sata. This is your time to rule and bring decency to zambaian politics. Pliz scrab all the corners.
The Post is scared. why write on thing over and over it sometimes becomes irritating. they used to say bad about LPM things like Levy’s diahorea of the mouth, now that he has dead it’s all rosy.
GO HH , we are wining and PF supporters will be stoned. As we will win in Southern, Western, Lusaka, Central and be number two on the copperbelt.
LT please change my flag. am a true zambian living in zambia on the copperbelt and working for the mines hence the blog name.
the govt needs to change hands people…MMD has outlived its usefulness if they had any. we need new ideas to take us forward.
ba RB is is a lier who new that he was in MMD before he was appointed as vice president,ba sugar dad why mubepa ubufi honestly speaking i only new mr rb on the day babapele kapani or sorry akapoto im even making mistakes go back to the field of business mr banda
RBs camp is the worst. the likes of teta and vj will surely deplete our treasury. these guys at all cost should not be allowed entry into cabinet shud vj rig the next elections. just yesterday this teta guy was boasting of owning every luxurious car zambians kud think of. what kind of a leader is that. shut your mouth teta if u have nothing to say. viva man of action viva sata. kakana sata wakana yesu