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Northern Province MMD tells Felix Mutati told to go back to UPND

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Felix Mutati with HH during the 2015 election campaigns
Felix Mutati with HH during the 2015 election campaigns

Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) Northern Province Chairman Mr Noah Mulenga has told Lunte Member of Parliament Felix Mutati to go back to the party he supported during the January 2015 presidential election, the United Party for National Development (UPND).

Reacting to the brewing controversy surrounding Mr Mutati who is alleged to be going around the country saying he shall contest for the MMD Presidency at the next convention, Mr Mulenga said Mr Mutati has no chance in hell of defeating Dr Mumba in any electoral contest.

“We are very disappointed with Mr Mutati. He has enjoyed being an MP under MMD and been paid a lot of money as a parliamentarian. At the first opportunity he got, he went and made a deal with HH and campaigned for him. He was expelled from MMD and then given a second chance. Now he is bringing confusion in MMD. We won’t tolerate this.”

“I speak on behalf of Northern Province when I say that there is no way we shall allow Mutati to hijack the MMD presidency from Dr Mumba who has defended the party from the PF the last 4 years. All this time Mutati has been sitting doing nothing and he thinks he can get the presidency without paying the price. He must be joking,” said Mr Mulenga.

Mr Mulenga said that Dr Mumba won the MMD presidency in 2012 fair and square but some of the other candidates he defeated such as Felix Mutati, Kapembwa Simbao and Situmbeko Musokotwane did not even attend his inauguration ceremony at Mulungushi Conference Centre.

“Instead of supporting and defending MMD the mother of democracy in Zambia, some of these MMD leaders are busy supporting undemocratic parties like PF and UPND where one man makes all the decisions and appoints people in the party anyhow. Some of these party presidents haven’t been to a convention for ten years,” said Mr Mulenga.

Mr Mulenga also sounded a warning to any other MMD leaders who may want to rebel against the leadership of Dr Mumba that they would not be tolerated and they would be removed from the party because time for indiscipline was over and it was time to work hard for the 2016 elections.

14 COMMENTS

    • Buying in the a tribal cause or cohabiting with anti Zambian ethnicists is unpardonable political treason to nationalist and progressive unitarists. By overlooking unwritten rules of never risk national power With ethnists, Mutati is practically undeclared outcast. GBM rants because he is a South African more than Zambian. He has limited if not zero legence to Zambia.

    • DETAILS ON MUTATI, LUNGU DEAL EMERGE: PF FUNDS MMD CONVENTION
      The Patriotic Front (PF) has set aside K5 billion old currency (K5m PF money) for the MMD convention that will take place in March 2016.
      The Watchdog has established that the PF has decided to grab MMD from Nevers Mumba, impose Lunte MP Felix Mutati as MMD president then appoint Mutati as running mate to Edgar Lungu for the 2016 polls.
      In 2021, if Lungu wins the 2016 presidential election, Mutati will run as president with Petauke MP Dora Siliya as running mate. That is if Lungu will agree to step aside and not say he had only served one term so far.**************
      The idea to hire Mutati is to try and forestall the declining support of the PF in the northern parts of the country…

  1. Hope Mutati is not sent to destablse MMD. If that is the case I feel for him. knowing that chances of MMD suporting PF are very high Mutati can be sent to do that

  2. “ZAMBIA UNITED” HAS COLLAPSED BECAUSE IT WAS NOT BASED ON PRINCIPLE BUT OF POWER HUNGER BY ALL THE KEY PLAYERS. UPND IS A DICTATORSHIP OWNED AND GOVERNED BY ONE MAN AND THERE ARE NO ELECTIONS.

    HH CHOOSES WHOM HE WANTS. CANICIUS BANDA IS NOW ON THE SIDELINES BECAUSE HHH THINKS GBM CAN BRING HIM BETTER FORTUNES THAN JUST SINDA.

  3. MUTATI HAS EVERY RIGHT TO SUPPORT AND ALIGN WITH WHATEVER PARTY HE CHOOSES. THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE. IF HE CHOOSES TO CONTEST MMD PRESIDENCY THAT TOO IS HIS RIGHT AS A MEMBER. IT IS UPTO THE MMD ON HOW THEY CHOOSE TO DEAL WITH IT. GOOD LUCK TO ALL.

  4. But ba Mutati also. Why not just cross-over to upended (upnd- small caps). There is nothing the voter hates more than undecided leader. You will have hell to pay for your political Treachery. I agree with Mulenga. Where were you when Nervous was fight for the soul of MMD? You weakened your party by joining up with Hedge Hedge

  5. Pf including their kuminamesake leader are sleeping as usual, by the time they wake up mutati and Dora will be in the high seats……..

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