President Rupiah Banda has maintained that he will only take-over as MMD party president when the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party officially ratifies his appointment .
Speaking at the Lusaka International Airport shortly after arrival from South Africa where he had gone to attend an emergency SADC extra-ordinary summit, President Banda maintained that he was still not MMD party president until he was formally adopted and ratified by NEC and the Party.
President Banda said he was still not MMD party President contrary to some statements from some sections of the society.
He however stated that he was willing to offer himself as Party President.
He further assured people fighting for the MMD Party presidency not to panic as the matter was being handled by NEC and the Party.
President Banda was reacting to some remarks made by some MMD Presidential hopefuls that they will not recognize him as interim party President because the decision was made by a few NEC members.
ZANIS/TK/MKM/ENDS
ok Banda
aya RB
Please be
Who are you then?
Jamaco webo utoshilako abanobe amasuku
This interesting Jamoco ka. Bakana ati ine am not party pesido.
Ha! Maliso iwe #1 x(
This man has no authority and it was indeed a mistake to have him for president. Guys, we like ‘shooting’ like am doing but we dont participate in politics. That’s why we’ll br ruled by grandparents. Look at hw many of the same politicians are sick. Really guys its time we woke up.
ni bad ,i hope he stands in 2011 :-j
It is really sickening..who do these people think Zambians are. Kids or dunder heads like them? Look, we all know that the NEC will endorse him, he will be party president, his bootlickers have already told cadres all over the country to Demo for him. I find this type of politics really pathetic and disrespecting to Zambians and totally insulting. This man is a liar. If he really want to prove otherwise let him reject and presidence and say I will only serve one term, the way Mandela is ..after all you are over 70 man. Let the young one take over for once
apa the trick is, if nyamaz becomes mmd prezzy, then he contests the 2011 elections, mwaiona iyo guys?
LT this news is premature, I don’t even know what to comment.
11. Nine Chale 2:1 !! The day is not finished. I am working until 22hrs. I am always ready. l-)
Nyama soya dont worry u will soon be,namwanawasa thats how he started he improved from being woken up from sleep to party president ,so the same can happen to you,ie from being taken from a worn down farm to party president,just like those stories of rags to riches, :d
Is he not the one who informed the nation when going to SA? I now understand that he easily forgets!! :d:)):d:d:)):))**==**==
People of Zambia what did you put in state house?
This guy has’nt got the guts of a leader. He pushes Teta to the lay groundwork for him and backs out at the slightest barking from fellow pit bulls. Spineless sucker!
Zambian politics have no basis whatsoever. That’s why our politicians are thick, there’s no common ground.
9. Papa J,
That is not the way democracy works you xenophobe.Democracy is an open system to all irrespective of age.If he wants to run,he has a constitution to run.Mandela suffered a broken back following 27 years in prison hence one term.RB has been a politician and career Diplomat with all the exposure.Unlike Mandela he has nothing to catch up with in life.Here in the US,late film actor turned politician Renald Reagan became President past RB and Sata’s age.He went on to serve 2 full terms.Let democracy handle the two age mates Sata and RB at their 72.Your puritan politics don’t work in the real world you xenophobe.Look into the US congress and Senate.Find the 84 olds still saving.
Very soon you will be Mr.that’s how Zedian politics oparate. :-j:-j:-j
Hey Matworld guter Freund waz up?
Please people, let us understand one thing. RB was elected as a caretaker president for only three years. Now that he has the full authority, he has started scheming for the party presidency and once he gets it, he will lock the door to it and will insist on serving eight years. Politics is a dirty cruel game. If you thought he was a passing cloud, you are in it for a rude shock. He will try to hold on to it until 2011 if we are not careful. Power corrupts and absolute power like that of Zambian president corrupts absolutely.
Joyce Nonde was very right the immaturity and irrationality among our youth evident here is scaring to say the least.No logical thinking, debate or interpretation of issues by yapping like illiterates who missed even basic civics and social studies.It is clear that an oligarch society of the same elites will keep ruling because because the young is proving too daft in policy and constitional matters.Blogging elele will keep you blogging 30 years on typicalof garbage in garbage out.Others will come,occassionally blog but stay building their place in the real power domain of true intellectualism.
Jamaco.
wie geht es dir heute?
# 21,
Who fed you that misleading tale that RB was elected by Zambians as a caretaker President for three years when the election was national and fully competitive? Do you know how caretaker presidency is ushered in all you just talk out of limited knowledge? Caretaker Presidency is covered in the constitution of compromise devoid of competition.What constitutional clause and article was used in your fallacy? Examples of caretaker presidency is Mr.Brian in the transition post Charles Taylor’s Liberia and current SA’s Kgalema Motlanthe following an abrupt resignation of Mbeki but warming up for Zuma.That is never a constitutional clause in Zambia with RB.
Banda, you are spot on. You show great maturity. Others would have muscled their way to it. I like your style.
On the more serious note, what is the game plan for when the Economic crunch come home to roost? Most of our customers (i.e. the East and West)for our produce (tourism and copper) have fallen on hard times. What is the diversification game plan?
:):):)
Imwe ba ,#18 ,chapi you sound too emotional.What democracy are you talking about?Who doesn’t know that your RB had to give out kacky envelopes for his endosement?Are you not aware that people at the grassrooot wanted Maganda and not your RB?If this is what you call democracy then we need some thing else for mother Zambia.
27. Wow!
Assumption is the lowest level of knowledge.Which people other other than the Zambia Airways scam shareholders wanted your Magande a man rejected and chased by even his very own tribesmen in his village?Magande failed even to beat even poor UPND’s Captain Mono in Chilanga yet you expect him to be sellable in the national constituency? You must be too immature to appreciate politics.Late Mazoka had problems to sale out Magande hence letting go.Little do you know that as much as he is a good economic mathematician, magande has serious speech disabilities.All he does in meetings and rallies is chew his tongue and spit salivor.Magande is not a politician.
Believe in yourself and start working on strategies capable of giving you winning mileage for leadership.Trust me, i have come to believe the provocative yet audacious words of some MMD activists who used to visit this site in 2007 and 08 during the early months of LT and teased us bloggers that believed in defeat of MMD.They use to say our liability is ignorance about the law of “27 years” though too busy with what they called garbage in garbage out.Time series are indicative and vindicating.I have since dropped from 24/7 childish blogging may have continued with.Its time for ground strategies am taking home for 2011 if not 2016.Par in winning strategies others you in hopeless blogging.
Wait till you proven guity……or otherwise be elected and not as you say
Matworld
LT Award winner for :-j:-j:-j:-j:-j:-j
Ba Chapi,
What immaturity are you are talking about? Are you going to insult the whole blog just to defend your RB? You really have emotion issues. I personally don’t care whatever happened between the late Mazoka and Magande. One thing I know, for sure is that Magande performed extremely well in Mwanawasa’s era. Talking of the man as incapable of speaking and the biting of his tongue makes me wonder on how genuine your contributions to this blog are.In my opinion you have something personal against the man. Believe it or not that’s the right candidate for Zambia’s presidency.
How can a person in his or her right mind refer to what RB and his crew are doing as democracy? I’m sure yo
32. Wow!
Its wastage of one’s time to zero on a none actor in prospective leadership.Governments is systemic its not individual driven.I worked with magande at LIMA bank and history for all share.He is a misfit for unsupervised office.He serves best under a micromanaging leadership.Even Mwanawasa saw alot of weaknesses in Magande.Look again at his leadership at LIMA bank, his hand in the sale of ZANACO at US $25 million, KCM at US $25 million and refusal to accept that Zambians are not wallowing in poverty.Politics is about building a constituency which Magande has none.Even one of us may ascend to power sooner that Magande who will never ever.Look at Sata how he has built himself.
Audit your life and blogging stint.Introspect and redisign your strategies.Immaturity has not changed your fate for and .Immaturity has not changed your predicament as a loose talk person.Lets graduate and progress.
#18 are you crazy? A 72-year old Zambian is not as healthy and mentally-intelligent as a 72-year old white American. The first will be marrying his great grand children, while the latter one can become a president. :d/:d/:d/
tili na mavuto pa Zed!!! I hope I will live to see a suitable perosn as a Zambian president
#24, talking about being caretaker presidency is NOT literal. RB said, my mandate would only last for three years during the campaigns and he said trust me to complete LPM’s term and make my legacy in three years. This is a fact. That is the basis on which he got support from all political vultures and hyenas. Without that RB would NEVER have been president today. So, obviously he has digressed from his earlier plea and has acquired more bootlickers who think they can spin it for him past 2011. Dirty old politics but good fun for those of us that have options created by our good education and abilities.Let the bootlickers enjoy bootlicking while we enjoy our professional careers.
Wait a minute RB!!! You told the nation, when late Levy made you VP, that you are UNIPist and you would find it very difficult to change. What has changed since then? Power is sweet eeh! It very very sweet indeed and you have sacrificed principles and morality. Heh!!Heh!! A president basu, Nibwanji?? :d:d:d:d
Where has Dr S.Miti gone to?
Ba Mbewe # 35,
You have a dangerous and disgraceful self inferior complex over the whiteman.Whites suffer many defects compared to a healthy African spared by God.Look at Mandela, KK, John Mwanakatwe, Dr.Peter matoka now lecturing at UNZA when he is beyond 84, Hosani Mubarack,Robert Mugabe, current Mozambican and senegalese presidents all in their 82 plus years.Then look at the ozymus (SP) hit whites.My Grand paper is 98 but going strong.Maybe your father died early due to poverty, burning charcoal and drinking kachasu hence your generalised miscoception.
What integrity does “ndalama” Banda has and which democracy in zambia esp in MMD. The some people get educated the more senseless and irresponsible they become. People who don’t say what they mean and don’t mean what they say are not leaders but cheats. And democracy is open for all to see with rules that do not change anyhow to fit ONE CORRUPT OLD JOKER. **==
#22,24,28,29,33,34 and #40 is SHUSHUSHU Pragmatist.
Am ashamed to be a Zambian being led by this man….Am considering renouncing my citizenship as long as Rubbish Banda is a caretaker how shameful.
Thats the it should be. Finish this term and go back to Unip and your farm
why
42. Chapi
Who ever you are your points are valid and worth noting. politics is about strategy and if the opposition does does not have good strategies then dont blame RB. MMD is now strategising while they are just making noise. Anywhere in world the incumbent will always go for onother term for as long as he qualifies, G.W Bush was declared presidential canditade for his second term in the midst of low opinion polls that later improved just before elections.MMD can not take the risk of fielding a new Man, with the dreaded tribal politics in Zambia you need an easterner and a Bemba against each other for a level play field. when Sata goes tribal nobody speaks against and so does RB.
# 42 Real Chapi’s impersonator,
Where have you been to have missed Pragmatist’s farewell bid to the Zedian blogs last year the very time he took up an executive job in one of the Parastatals? Like a book with a closing chapter, our friend understood the limit of blogging and the charter of progress.You are stuck with these blogging habits in circles but with no marginal gain.
This RB is a coward. I recall it had to take Teta to remind him that he was acting presido and that he stood to gain by being in that position when replacing the successor of Levy. No wonder he has rewarded Teta with a ministerial position, though as well he is messing up local govt big time.
Here again just cause ugly Nga’ndu Magande and indoshi Ludwig Sondashi have raised voices he is sacred of taking up the mantle. RB IS A COWARD BIG TIME, I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
48. UMWINA KALALE
Thats what it means when you have veteran diplomat at the top.Cool waters run dip. A duck will always look still on the water yet its feets are vigourously paddling under the water. RB knows he is an enermy of the biggest media printing house and he enjoys keeping them guessing on his next move.The first lesson in international relations is that talking too much is infact a sign of weakness and fobia not bravery and blackmail is when someone keeps provoking you even when you dont talk to them.watch the story behind that vail of silence, RB will be overwhelmly endorsed by the NEC and at the convention he will also win by landslides and later win the presidence in 2011.
Ni chamanta, what a wimp! :-w
49. Engines,
That is what kids here don’t read.They think bloggin insele has a mileage.RB is busy consolidating with mileage in every front right in the eyes of the public.Who is Mmembe, Sondashi, Magande,or Maureen Mwanawasa constitutionally receiving terminal benefits of the late on constitutional condition that no role politics? Politics is about the grassroot and not blogging here.
51 EASY.
Your insults to me on this blog can not cheapen my resolve and line of thinking. I respect and defend every right of your useless mind to blog whatever you wish to blog. BUT LET ME TELL YOU THAT I AM RESPONSIBLE FATHER WITH WELL LOOKED AFTER HOME AND KIDS AND DO NOT IN ANY WAY AND I REPAET DO NOT IN ANY WAY DESERVE TO BE DISRESPECTED IN THE MANNER THAT YOU HAVE DONE. I HAVE A RIGHT TO BLOG AS I FEEL AND WISH BUT NOT TO INSULT OTHER THAT THEY ARE KIDS. PICK YOUR LINE OF THOUGHT AND NOT JUST GET WAKEN UP BY PICKING SOMEONES LINE OF THOUGHT AND SPICE IT WITH INSULTS LIKE YOU HAVE DONE. IF YOU WANT US TO INSULT EACH OTHER I CAN READILY AND IN A MORE DIRTY WAY SERIOUSLY ENGAGE.
Nyama Soya even your own party does not want you. 2011 kuya bebele back to your farm ku munzi :-ss:-ss
49
You have misunderstood the whole essence of the story. RB is saying that he is not yet the president of MMD, but you and me know and understand that he is more than willing and will be very very happy to be the president of that party.
So instead of putting his neck on the line by coming out in the open or openly expressing his desire, some NEC members have done him a favour by staking their necks on the chopping block and the next thing is that he is denying the opportunity. It is this background that makes him look weak and a coward. Levy was installed in similar way and took the mantle, so what is wrong with RB doing the same in this useless party, i ask.
We are not children to be cheated like this. we know that you are.
**==
moning Rashid,
Dont hide RB, you are the one!! atleast Bwezani looks presidential in that photo…
51. Easy
Most people dont see that politics is about strategy and power doesnt come easily, you have to fight for it anywhere in the world. Its not about levy did this or that so everybody must do the same. infact if you look closely RB is avoiding some things levy did politically. you recall that when levy was installed the media was on his back and he kept replying making them more powerfull that they even blackmailed him and let him off the hook. VJ has even written in his latest book that in LPMs time certain decisions where made from Bwinjimfumu, that was all blackmail that RB seems to have clearly avoided.What MMD is doing with these pronouncements is simply to test the waters.
Its very absurd to seggest that those ministers made pronouncements without the knowledge of RB.For us who follow politics we know that its very rare for a political party to risk substituting the incumbent less than a year between party convention and general elections.This was coming and its in the interest of the party.My advise to the opposition is stop talking about affares of MMD this is time to study the voter register and based on the voting populations choose someone with a national appeal and teller massagers that will suit each constituency. i.e Dont go to chipata or Mukushi and talk about chinese when those are farming communities, restrict chinese talk to CB.fishing to Luapula
57 and 58
You make laugh that RB has a strategy. What startegy has RB got if not being abused by the likes of VJ, Teta, Katele, Mabenga, Mulongoti, Shakafuswa, Mpombo and Shikapwasha to mention a few. Wait and seee how RB will be persecuted by the same as and when he leaves office. Oh i forgot that he will die in office.
Today you want to tell us that you have a monopoly of knowledge in politics, my dear you are lost and have no bearing on which direction MMD will take. Plus do not personalise MMD like it is your pant or socks the way you have come out in the above blogs. Kutumpa uko we mbwa iwe.
59. KWINDI
I forgive you.
60
Do not say you forgive me.
Just say that you did not realise that MMD is but some beyond use by date party with no agenda for most of the Zambians but RB, dirty, filthy and unkempt Thandiwe, Kunda, Shikapwasha, Chikwakwa Jazzman and such rotten and never made it in public life individuals. What startegy is RB about other than takuli ukuchula nakabili even if i go and settle at a garden called a farm in Chipata.
Startegy of foul appoitnments and rewarding cadres. Is that what you call strategy. Busy making praise singers is what you understand as politics and boast about it. Think before you infect our brains with useless MMD chaff.
60
Ba Engines my friend
There is Kwindi for you and what is your take on him.
I find some statements from some pipo here interesting. “Banda wamwenso” “ he has no leadership qualities”. Unless you have been asleep, the same statements where said about Mwanawasa. Chiluba also was accused of being “toothless” for some years in his first term. Zambians, its time you accepted that when one is sworn-in as President, its over. You think the white pipo in the US (especially Republicans) are happy with a “niger” in the white house? The same way, we know Bembas just want a Bemba to be President regardless of merit (assess the caliber of Chiluba & Sata. Both losses). So Banda, is now president of Zed. Come next election, he wants to make sure he controls MMD, so he can teka aga
Iwe Talk Time Banda, are you for real? The man is not presidential material. His thinking. His body. The step. The face. You put a person who has no bank account in State House, and you expect the country to survive. Zambians will never learn.
Ifya ku chipata utulo. Atase
This is the end of MMD
62. UMWINA KALALE
I have forgiven him and its my hope that he does not refer or reply to me in any of his bloggs or opinions, but if he does i will still forgive him. Thats my take on him.
# 37, YOU HAVE MADE MY DAY WITH THIS COMMENT, VERY INTELLIGENT YOU ARE INDEED. WONDERFUL AND MAY GOD MAKE YOU EVEN MORE BRILLIANT. YOU THINK LIKE ME.
“Dirty old politics but good fun for those of us that have options created by our good education and abilities.Let the bootlickers enjoy bootlicking while we enjoy our professional careers.”
WONDERFUL COMMENT, WHAT MORE!!!!!
Engines, just take a base ball butt and thamp him on the head or better still send him a virus.
Okay, let those who are satisfied with nonsensical Zambian politics stay in Zambia, while we enjoy ourselves outside until the rot seizes, then we will go back and take over and enjoy while creating wealth for all and making a better and civilised Zambian nation where poverty will vanish with the current crop of politicians. Give us 10 more years and we shall surface with great ideas afte having dreamed it all, seen it all, lived it all.
Have things changed in MMD now,i thought a long time ago they used to conduct elections for such positions,often they were held in Kabwe where all party members would go & battle it out with all their supporters from across the country,it is not acceptable for the party NEC to change things around(if they have not consulted all party members) & then keep deciding who should represent the party.
Jigga, unless you want to write a thesis, that data is irrelevant as long as you do not belong to MMD. They can have a croc, a lizard, lion whatever for President, thats none of our bees wax. Some of us have no interest in some of those parties. Talk about the Zambian constitution, thats where our minds are set. Kabwe, Shangombo, whatever, let them go there and hack each other in the heads so that we can begin to reduce on some losers around.
RB is a good man but the truth of the matter is,HE IS UNIPIST.All we need in this country in our nxt elections is someone who is going to at be tough.
Anyone with some data on where Dr.Simon Miti (Former P/S-Health)has been sent to?
I hear there is Dr.V.Mtonga now?
# 71, he is waiting to be deployed. I don’t exactly know what that means but I presume he’s waiting to be assigned a new job. I hear he has never practiced as a medical doctor (and yet we are in dire need of medical doctors) so it must be a political job in the waiting. This is serious, why should politicians earn more than any other professional? When we return we will change things, baya sana bangwele. This is why politicians are now celebrities and most of them dying from HIV/AIDS because gld digging women believe they have the loot.
All the old politicians in zambia are unipist Sata was only in MMD for 9 years and RB has only been in MMD for 7 YEARS. Infact all politicians that where in politics before 1990 are all from UNIP as you will recall that prio to MMD we were in a one party state.so the issue of who is unip and who is not falls off. What should happen is that all opposition political parties should concentrate on studying the voter register and teller massages to suit the particular constituency i.e issues of chinese should be for CB, while agric should be for eastern and southern, mining and oil explorations N/west and western, and fishing for luapula. Dont go to eastern and central to talk about China.
maybe he’s UNIP pres….. :)>-
The Deal was Sealed long time ago. Who can refuse to fortfy his position given the fluid situation in MMD. Its just a few small loose canons like Dr Herbalist and Teta mulomo causing soome ripples here and there otherwise the man is aleady MMD President. If he does not become one the small chaps will be pushing him around in the name of being senior party members. Katele & Micheal can’t just make those suggestions there is more to it than meets the eye.Ni pa Zedi what is impossible in other counntries for is nothing stops amazing me. It has happened
Abena RB paminso kwati ni umusunga ( porridge ) wa mbalala, nangula busefwe ( ubowa )Please next time choose someone with a human face and human brain.
Ba Engines I totally agree with u in fact to be where we are today we started from somewhere and there are ups and downs. This country started with Africa National Congress ANC. The party where my grand parents belonged to. It was symbolized by a lion. Then ZANC then UNIP, UPP and others then MMD. Even christain churches, Roman Catholic Church, then others guys who never agreed with their doctorine brokeaway. Don’t condem RB that he’s UNIPIST. Understand the world is dyanamic. Always change with time. Then man so it coming and used his consititutional right and joined MMD and its has paid. Why seat in sinking boat. Even loyal employees at times call it quits and join other firms.
Cost of petrol most expensive in africa lets petition the Government to reduce it.
you zambians u like experiments. unfortunately you even experiment with the presidency. you just can’t. maybe in 2011 lets try Daniel munkombwe, anything goes pa zed
“President Rupiah Banda has maintained that he will only take-over as MMD party president when the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party officially ratifies his appointment.”
Why NEC? Can’t the MMD hold convention where party cadres will have a chance to elect its president?
“He however stated that he was willing to offer himself as Party President.”
I heard such from former President FTJ Chiluba on the 3rd Term bid, that it was not him but people and he was willing to follow what they wanted, if I remember correctly.
Ok now am confused. Can anyone care to update me on the matters within MMD. Pantu Pandoras Box could just be opened with this statement.