The MMD Secretariat has said that it will soon start looking for a new leader to lead the party. MMD National Secretary Major Richard Kachingwe however said that the party is currently dealing with post election problems such as petitions, parliamentary by-elections and witch hunting.
Major Kachingwe told ZNBC News in an interview that the MMD will immediately call for a convention to elect its party President once it has resolved the post election challenges.
He said that only the convention can elect a Party President, while the National Executive Committee-NEC only has authority to fill casual vacancies. Major Kachingwe further explained that the MMD leadership is aware of the need for new leadership but appealed to members to remain calm as the party deals with major challenges.
And Major Kachingwe has said that the MMD is still conducting a postmortem on why it lost the September 20, general elections.
ZNBC
I thought VJ did the postmortem? Insensitivity to the plight of the people! Go PF go!
Who cares !
I do
Who are the members sorting out problems if the MMD members are told to stay clam…MMD does not seem to learn, the power is with the people or it general membership. call for convertion soon otherwise you will find you have not party to save or serve in. Banda and LP Mwanawansa were hand picked hence the problems you are having learn for once at least.
You know why you lost
just see how fat the MMD cadres become. I hope that’s not the only change we will be witnessing with PF….
good for your party.you need new leadership so that they can be better opposition.
“And Major Kachingwe has said that the MMD is still conducting a postmortem on why it lost the September 20, general elections” why waste time, i thought VJ said it all….you stopped listening…
Form a pact with HH and elect him your president!you never know!
The honourable thing to do under the circumstances is for MMD to fold their political tent and fade away into blissful oblivion. Don’t hang around like UNIP knowing well that you have been rejected and will never again be permitted to ascend to power. Individual members can assimilate in other parties but MMD as a party is dead and no amount of reorganization, re-branding and other cosmetic touch ups will ever revive them. They are a failed party. They are dead, like UNIP.
Where will the money to hold the convention come from since their fingers can no longer access to the national coffers, it will be interesting, I suggest they pick in Nevers Mumba who has just been recalled from Canada.
They are afriad of leaving positions because they will open up. The analysis is know, just leave.
Yes, VJ told you the truth. Go to convention NOW… sorry MmD
By Bivan Saluseki, Thursday November 01, 2007 [03:00]
I’m not ashamed to deal with Taiwan, says Sata.I am not ashamed to deal with Taiwan, Patriotic Front (PF) president Michael Sata has said. Addressing a press conference yesterday, Sata, who on Tuesday night returned from the United States where he had gone to discredit China in favour of Taiwan, claimed that the current government was very corrupt although he could not justify this claim. Sata said he was a moving billboard for The Post because if he was not appearing in The Post, The Post did not sell.
Make Nevers Mumba leader if you want the party to grow. He has the personality of a head of state but lucked something previously. That way then it can be bemba led MMD against bemba led PF. HH can work with Nevers to form a strong opposition and as soon as God calls Sata home, Nevers can be president with HH as veep. MMD/UPND coalition works.
Reminds me of MMD hard-cores who used to say that we are retiring sata from active politics come september 20 and the likes of Don’t kubeba-Re-loaded would say we are sending Ala bee to the farm.who got it right after september 20?
This is the beginning of the end for the MMD. Mabenga says there will be no convention to elect a new leader and Kachingwe says the exact opposite. Kachingwe says a postmortem will be done to find out why they lost. He must be very daft, several MMD leaders have already identified the reasons for the loss, ‘Not listening and taking Zambians for granted’, ‘RB’s dictatorial style of leadership’, ‘Never knowingly abusing state funds’ and RB’s use of his sons GRZ affairs.
I am looking forward to that convention. It will be interesting because they are in opposition now.
Lets see how they handle it. I can only see a few digruntled individuals after thoese elections and a few more defections-yes rats jumping ship! The sinking ship.
How the mighty have fallen.
Mr Capitalist and MMD Bootfimofimo used to say more popcorns please! Kapaso, more popcorns please! I`m Lovin it!
So much shallowness exhibited by Kaponyas on this blog. I wish for once you can behave like you are in power and not in opposition.Â
Defeat is a naturally evolution of any learning party like MMD and those that wish us dead and comparing us to UNIP are just exposing their shallowness, inability to think independently and and total imbecility. 38% of Zambians voted for MMD. MMD has 55 seats in parliament, without whose support the constitution can not be changed. That is a strong mandate from the people that UNIP did not have.Â
Don’t just lazily dismiss us like we are UNIP. Do so at your own risk. This PF government is like Chinese food. Zambians have been fed Chinese food. Very soon they will be hungry and demand the real food. This is a One Term party
Your predictions on the outcome of the elections were wrong. Keep coming with your wrong predictions.
Please MMD don’t remove RB, have you already forgotten that it is RB Nafuti, nafuti, Chwe, chwe, chwe, Boma ni boma.
I see why you lost now. You can’t see the writing on the wall. Its clear why you lost and you still need time to ponder why so? Nevers Mumba would be a good choice. Maybe the re-call is a Gods move in action. He would be a very good leader, appearance wise anyway, and would chance the ugly face of MMD. Also try Chipimo. MMD is good at hiring presidents from outside its ranks, LPM and RB. Let them go out the box again.
NEVERS MUMBA FOR MMD PRESIDENT! MMD shall be saved.
Help me with this one guys, it surely beats my intelligence: Before the Elections H.E.RB fought tooth and nail for Mwaina Mweka Daddy (MMD) to stay in power. Now that they suffered shameful defeat, the party boss immediately announced retirement from active politics… can you smell some coffee over there??
The ONLY person who can give HE Sata a good run for his money is abena Nevers. Nevers has the Chinsali aura that can extinguish HE MCS. Come on Nevers! Nevers! Nevers! Nevers!
Unike RB who did not have enough time to make his own plan for the running of the country but just carried Mwanawasa’s katundu, Nevers has been a Presidential candidate, been Vice President, been a diplomat and led an international organisation that he started from the scratch! Nevers is head over shoulders above any leader in the opposition. He has excellent communication skills and he has integrity (well, sort of). I say, NEVERS MUMBA FOR MMD PRESIDENT! It will be good for Zambian politics. I know Mutati is ok, but he is a manager and not a politician. He lacks the killer punch!
Shhhhhh! Bloggers. Don’t let HE Sata hear about plans to make Nevers MMD President because he may just tempt him to another post, like Minister for Gender, or High Commissioner to London. You know abena Nevers balikwata ka weakness kamo. There are too many bills that he may want to sort out, so lets keep this quiet. Ok! BUT Nevers for MMD President and come 2016, Zambia!
MMD has lots of potential. Andthe structures are in place. The party machinery can still run. Very soon people will realise we can only have Kaponyas but for a while. The likes of Nevers Mumba & Felix Mutati can compete for the position. Don’t shoot yourselves in the foot just because some selfish people want jobs from PF. Identify the oportunists and chuck them out…no matter the large numbers. This is time to clean the party.
It is normal for a loosing presidential candidate to resign from party leadership. If the masses have given you a vote of no confidence it is only right to vacate and let others lead the party.
imwe Kachinga who cares about your concention to pick a new leader.MMD is a finished party now just like the long buried Unip.PF had had put MMD in the coffin and buried it during the just ended election.No more MMD thieves in Zambia for ever. ba sata you a great man so plz keep it up. civa BA SATA
You eliminated the post of Vice President! So who is your next successor? Undemocratic tendancies to keep autocratic rule at the top! I hope “Engineer, Bootlickekers” and other pretenders know by now what hit them!
Iwe chikala bootlicker Ben Kangwa, you are a fool, you still dream that you will bounce back again? madness.
@ CHALO CHESU 25: Whether or not there is a vote of confidence- An incumbent leader that loses a presidential election must never stay in a leadership but governance role his party. If MMD were sharp, the post mortem is irrelevant as it is obvious that they lost election mainly due the desire for change and the desire for lower taxes. They are not in a very bad shape, I think the UPND is hurt more by the PF victory. They must elect a reputable leader and continue having a voice through parliament, and perhaps, launch a weekly party newspaper.
Who is going to fund the convention for a lost cause?
#18, Bootlicker, are you alive? Now you call us names? Who told you that we are “kaponya?” You are still hallucinating! You will wait for 20 years before you think of coming back to power! By that time most of your leaders would have defected but I caution PF not to receive these prostitutes like you. After 20 years you will be finished like a worn out tyre.
THE MMD GOT CHEATED BY RENTED CROWDS AND HAD NO STRATEGY LACKED COHENSION AND WERE NOT COMMITTED TO THE PARTY IDEALS BUT BELIEVED IN INDIVIDUALS. THERE IS NO NEED OF CRYING FOR SPILLED MILK. ALL EXECUTIVE MMD MEMBERS FROM WARD TO NEC WERE BUNCH OF COWARDS WHO COULD NOT TELL RB THAT HE WAS DRIVING THE PARTY ON A PERSONAL AGENDA. SURELY WAS IT NECESSARY TO IMPOSE CANDIDATES? YOU ASKED FOR IT AND GOT IT. IN FACT MOST OF THE ADOPTED CANDIDATE SKNEW THEY WERE GOING TO LOSE SEATS AND JUST CHEWED THE CASH AND THESE ARE ONES DEFECTING TO PF. RB HAD NO AGENDA FOR MMD AS A PARTY HE WAS JUST LIKE A TOURIST WITHOUT A GUIDE THAT IS WHAT THE MMD MEMBERS ALLOWED RB TO DESTROY THE PARTY EFFICIENTLY.
RB for MMD!!
What about the reported opening of some radio/tv station in chipata for Malawi’s opposition party.Doesnt it come to the same issue of interfering with matters of a soverign state?
Major Kachingwe you are one of the Major Challenge that needs sorting out of MMD for new leadership to emerge however as of now leadership in needed even in an interim capacity (acting FIMOFIMO). I am not MMD but in the past I have observed that you only went to the convetion to endorse the Acting FIMOFIMO’s
Major Catch-a-Ngwee, just hand back MMD to the original founders for a health check. The hyjackers merely used this party as a vehicle for amassing wealth. Weren’t you also with Heritage Party on village concept?
Who cares about MMD Presdo?? Pipo cant you find something progressive to talk about e.g Budget expectations etc. MMD is by gone. u make me sick
kACHINGWE SHOULD ALSO GO!CEO OF THE PARTY HAS FAILED FULL STOP; NATIONAL CAHAIRMAN MR CDF SHOULD ALSO GO. U FAILURES
Fun how bootlicker thinks.MMD needs a serious overhaul.Needs to get rid of chaps like bootlicker who decieved the MMD into defeat.RB rebranded the party into UNIP by getting rid of pontential challengers.MMD should see beyond their noses and bring back the pride that made it the first democratic party to rule with majority.Unfortunately such advise is still falling on deaf hears for a strange reason.I wonder if 55 Mps where genuinely elected or RB genuinely got the 37% vote. History will reveal how it all went down.There is no way somebody will have results to usher him in power when PVT showed contrary.
Things can change. yesterday, Rb was predicted to be winning, today he is a laughing stock. no one wants to be associated with him. Is he the epitome of a bad leader. Leadership scholars can learn a few things from RB’s style. In any case, Sata is a self made man, he creates a party no body takes him seriously, he climbs a step at a time right up to the top. Few can match and now that he is at the helm, mark my words, he has no match on the political arena. we know where hh came from, rb and the rest, they are pretenders and cant stand on there on. The cobra will be underestimated at own peril.nevers started a church, a common thing nowadays and he wanted to ride on his pulpit to plot one.To beat the cobra you need supernatural patience
i think we need to pick some1 credible like Mutati or Catherine Namugala to become MMD president.
ask vj
Sub chief natende, opening a radio is not interfering with another country soverenity. I run a radio station here.
Buutilicker licked so many MMD boots that he became insane. His friend Engneer is now a disgraced tech somewhere in Mushala wonderland.
Where is your vice president who could have taken over the reigns of power? The “Convetion voted” down the post of MMD Vice President! Thanks for the democratic ideals of the paty and its government in RB and his henchmen! And you want to set up a commision of inquiry as to why you lost? You guys are joking! I need some of the money please appoint me to that commision!
Who ever you choose, the guy must be prepared to loss four elections to PF..so make it 20 years..if you do the maths, the guy must be about 45 – 50 years.. to be on safe side I suggest 40 years..
STOP LYING MAJOR KACHINGWE. A CONVENTION IS ONLY NECESSARY FOR ELECTING AN ENTIRE NEC. WHAT IS CLEAR IS THAT YOU CANNOT MAINTAIN RB AS PARTY PRESIDENT, LET HIM RETIRE AND ENJOY HIS STATUS AND SALARY OF PAST PRESIDENT AND FIND WAYS OF ELECTING AN ACTING PRESIDENT UNTIL YOUR FULL CONVENTION IS HELD.
Who cares about these losers? L L L L L
All MMD motherfathers you deserve to die father RB, father Kachingwe, father Dora & all you motherfathers father you too.
@ # 425 ZaChisoni says
I like your point of view. What most people don’t realise just yet is that Sata won’t have any opposition in the very near future. He is a strategic planner and the current crop of opposition leaders are not a threat and therein lies the problem. The PF needs a strong opposition party that can provide checks and balances, but the current opposition aren’t anywhere near Sata’s caliber. They will always be defeated at the every turn and corner.Â
Dont play around wit fred membe especilally you ka HH. You soon become history like RB.
If MMD get a good leader — the party can still survive but certainly not bouncing back in the next 10 years. The party that has potential to grow in popularity is the UPND. PF prescribed its own poison by making wild promises to the people, especially on the issue of job creation. When people realize that PF actually has no capability to design and implement job creating strategies PF`s popularity will be pricked in a big way. So, PF`s enemy is not HH. Its the promises PF made to the people.
Hated Hero aka HH should be the next MMD/UPND president so that he spoils things for them……..and Dora for Vice President!..kikikikikikikikikiki
Mr Kachingwe kindly someone who is charismatic like NEVERS MUMBA and rebrand the party with different colours and symbol. PF are same leaders of yesterdays’ MMD but changed symbol and colours. Change colour to blue and green to confuse common zambians.
is it true that food bought with stolen money makes pipo fat ?
form a pact with HH no PF in 2016
@5 KELVIN: you are spot on, WOW these guys are FAT, look at their necks, well, it’s just a matter of time, all that fat will melt, being in the opposition seat is not easy plus no more dirty deals.
FAT and BLACKER
MMD Bootlicker you are blind, myopic and f.oolish.For a long time I followed your pre-election bootlicking blogs and almost believed what you wrote. I thought you had something but my was I wrong. You make Mushota look or sound like Sir Isaac Newton, Nkhuruma, Nyerere, Kaunda, Mandela or DR. Martin Luther King. Now shut up we don’t need your rhetoric. Let Pabwato sail on and do, in 90 days, what your MMD did n’t do in 20 years.