The Northern Province Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) Provincial Executive Committee has issued an ultimatum to all those aspiring for adoption on the MMD ticket as Councilors and Members of Parliament in Northern Province to prove their loyalty to the party.
In a press release to the media, MMD Information and Publicity Secretary (IPS) Mr Cephas Bwalya said Northern Province is set to give the Zambian people a visionary, disciplined and principled leadership under Dr. Nevers Sekwila Mumba who shall become the seventh President of the Republic of Zambia on 11th August 2016.
Mr. Bwalya has called on all Zambians and genuine members of the MMD who have chosen to stay away from elections due to some selfish, greedy and sub-standard MMD leaders to come back and support the party. He said there is still hope for the country and has urged Zambians to join the MMD and vote for it so that it saves the people of Zambia from the mess created by the Patriotic Front (PF) and restore the nation to the path of prosperity.
Mr. Bwalya has urged all MMD members to embrace the 50%+1 clause because the MMD as the mother of Democracy in Zambia helped bring this clause into the Republican Constitution during the recent parliamentary vote on the Constitutional Bill. He said that the MMD has had this clause in its Party Constitution for years through which its president Dr. Mumba came into office via a landslide victory in 2012. He said the MMD will approach the 2016 elections as a united front to enable it get to the 50%+1 threshold.
Mr. Bwalya has sounded a warning that there will be no sacred seats reserved for special people as all the seats will be fairly and transparently competed for and the rationale for adoption will be loyalty, track record of discipline and commitment to the leadership and ideals of the MMD.
Mr. Bwalya said the party is already flooded with applications, particularly in the Mbala and Lunte Constituencies. He said the 2016 election is a golden opportunity for the MMD to start afresh with completely new faces and a new crop of selfless, dedicated leaders who are itching to help Dr. Mumba and the MMD to make Zambia great again.
Does the MMD even have a realistic chance of winning even 05 seats?
Zambians are such shallow analysts. MMD has 36 seats. They cannot lose all of them. Felix Mutati has already announced that he and 24 other MPs are standing on MMD ticket but because you Zambians don’t bother to read, you make silly statements like this.
PF and Upnd tricks of paying people to coment NEGATIVElY on MMD exposed. Mmd is now the only reonable party to vote for come 2016′ “Mmd is the real threat to Pf and tongas
pf paying alot of maney just to who ever writes negative on mmdn shame we shall stil vote for our pastor and mmd kwsila.
Zambia is full of dreamer politicians…..
MMD won’t win a single seat.
Felix Mutati has already announced that he and 24 other MPs are standing on MMD ticket but because you Zambians don’t bother to read, you make silly statements like this.
Nevers, you were done when Mwanawasa fired you at the airport and gave back your NRC. Surely prophesy should have already shown you that you can not win any elections; erections… maybe.
stand on mmd at your own risky of geting oooooooo
The paradox is that loyal or is royal members of the MMD do not even have grade 7 certificates….for UNIP its worse
That’s day dreaming. Dr. Mumba just has no chance. He got less than the spoiled ballots in the last election. How does he move from there to winning.
Just flogging a dead horse here. As a Pastor, Dr Mumba must surely know the danger of spiritual defilement if you handle dead things. It’s time to look to a new horizon. You are frozen in past things and must try a new approach. I think you are better off joining PF on one ticket; your ambitions to be in a ruling party should open up.
Seek Life, Dr Mumba. It’s time to change.
MMD is history in the 2016 parliament MMD will have less than 5 seat.
Felix Mutati has already announced that he and 24 other MPs are standing on MMD ticket but because you Zambians don’t bother to read, you make silly statements like this.
NEVERS IS GAINING POPULARITY ON THE GROUND HENCE THE ATTENTION HE IS RECEIVING.
THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THAT HE WILL RAISE A LOYAL CROP OF FOLLOWERS. LET MMD COME UP WITH A NEW TEAM. ALL THESE MBULAKULIMA’S MUTATI MUGALA …HAVE HAD THEIR TIME. ARE THERE NO FRESH BRAINS TO JOIN NEVERS AND CHANGE THE POLITICS OF THIS COUNTRY?
WAY TO GO NEVERS.
I think it’s myopic thinking to consider Dr Mumba finished. I agree with Katong to say that it does not mean that if a few individual decide to walk away they MMD is finished or that Dr Mumba has failed to run the party. MMD is an institutional and people come and go, the is a whole new crop of young emerging leaders who are behind Doc and needless to mention a Nd a good number of old people so people better stop dreaming, MMD Is not UNIP and MMD shall govern again come 11 August
Nevers Mumba is sending shivers in the PF and UPND camps. Apa Nomba ni Mumba. MMD forever
I think Never is the most sober candidate we have. Not those who just know how to dance
MMD has survived for five years from internal and sponsored battles. Unfortunately people are not seeing this. Internal and sponsored wrangles and schemes killed UNIP. But that we can still talk about MMD shows that the party is still a player in Zambian politics. It is not easy to run an opposition party in Zambia unless you have the money like HH. But MMD has survived on strong Internal structures and system. This is why RB, Muhabi, Zambia Reports, Kaingu-to-deal-with-unza-problems-president-lungu failed to hijack the party. Go Nevers and team will give you more than you got in January 2015.
When did mutati say he and 24 other mps will stand on mmd ticket. ..? In my honest opinion we can actually bet on this… mmd under Nevers is dead… nevers doesn’t even have one single mp backing him… his own party executive has lost confidence in him… mmd came out 4th in elections