MINISTER of Defence Geoffrey Mwamba says he will consider standing for the presidency after President Sata completes his two terms of office in 2021.
And Mr Mwamba said he initiated the President Sata endorsement campaign to block some people in the Patriotic Front (PF) who were positioning themselves to challenge President Sata in 2016 from doing so.
Mr Mwamba, who is also Kasama Central member of Parliament, said at the moment his focus is on supporting President Sata to ensure that he is given a second term of office so that he can realise his dream for Zambia.
The minister said this here on Sunday after he launched the Chishimba/Musa II national grid extension project.
“But when President Sata leaves in 2021, because he has to run for two terms, probably God willing if I will be alive, why can’t I take part like anybody else? But that also depends on the Almighty God, what if he takes me tomorrow?” he said.
Mr Mwamba, however, did not want to discuss his intention in detail saying 2021 is still far and reiterated that he has no intentions of succeeding President Sata in 2016.
“There is no way you can expect President Sata to realise his dream in five years, it is impossible. So, let’s give President Sata a chance for a second term, I will be there to support him,” he said.
The minister also said he has been vindicated on his crusade to endorse President Sata as the sole candidate for 2016 following PF secretary general Wynter Kabimba’s recent statement in which he urged Zambians to give the President more years to deliver.
Mr Mwamba said his endorsement crusade was meant to promote unity in the ruling party saying now that things have stabilised in PF, Zambians should support President Sata.
“I have been vindicated because some people thought I was doing it [endorsement] for something. I was not doing it for anything, I was doing it for the sake of bringing unity in the party,” he said.
Mr Mwamba said President Sata can never be interested in leading a divided political party because the internal squabbles would derail Government’s national development agenda.
I dread that day when this corrupt fat pfool will be president. We can not have more mediocrity.
Zambia deserves such a man for president
Appalling, in any sense of the word
Thanks
Fortunately, his weight won’t hold him till 2021 so we can sleep easy!
Just like I said earlier … this fight was not for today, it has always been about the future. GBM will never be president among the smart people of the Zambian Enterprise. His “endorsement” crusade sponsoring his fellow kaponyas to do his dirty work has failed.
The only person vindicated here is Kabimba who is still running the show with his head high, while GBM has been seen as succored and scorned. What a shameful Minister of Defense.
Only lucky MCS is uncle, otherwise just like Chikwelete (or whatever his name is) GBM would have been history in PF as well. I said this before and I will say it again, the smart people of the Zambian Enterprise know better, GBM is too dull for their smarts, lesson learnt!!
Yes it is your constitutional right ba GBM only that such a move can just end up wiping out all your riches.Try to learn a few things from the late Dean Mungomba and Ben Mwila.
This Gigantic Ballistic Missile (GBM) ain’t leaving the lauchpad in 2021 as its already showing serious systemic failure.
Hilarious Hahaha
good luck to you Green Bag of Maize (GBM) with you presidential ambitions.
Its good to have ambitions than none at all
Kabimba 9-1 GBM
What a joker. So GBM has officially launched his presidential campaign.
If I recall correctly the whole issue of endorsement started when there were rumours of Sata’s failing health.
So what GBM is confessing is that when Sata is not available to stand, he, GBM would be available. In other words, if “God willing” Sata is not available even before 2016, then GBM will stand. In the same breath he wants us to believe that it is an offence for other people to privately habour such thoughts – That “God Willing” if the presidency is available before 2021, they can stand.
Mwamba was told off not to use govt to fight personal political battles. Be careful GBM
what a joke… this grade 7 thinks PF will still be around in 2021
You are a black sheep of your family, why can’t you just pronounce his name properly? Has he ever told he was a grade? You really need a certificate to be that ugly in your head.
why not? only God decides who will be where and when. besides,its his constitutional right. you get?
wow,the great bag of maize has spoken out at last…gooodluck with your presidential ambitions you hippo.i would rather not vote at all than waste my precious vote on an elephant
Zambia has more intelligent people than GBM,If we can have such a leader then I will denounce my citizenship,I would rather go and live in Somalia than being led by GBM
Be very careful what you wish for…
My friend, God nows who will be a leader @ an appointed time. If God sasy it is GBM, there is nothing that you can do. Be careful with what you wish. Living in Somalia!!
I dare you to go live in Somalia right away.
GBM has the right to aspire for any office just like you except you have no balls to do so
Be careful what you wish for, somebody said Sata will only be the president over my dead body ( and that somebody is right now at Embassy Park, next to FTJ).
PLEASE BATATA I SUPPORT YOU BETTER GO TO SOMALIA OR MIKANDO INSTEAD OF HAVING A FORMER MAFIA WITH THE MBALA MAFIA STEALING FROM PRISON SUPPLYING 2 BAGS OF CHILEMBA AND 3 BAGS OF KAPENDA AND GIVING AN INVOICE OF 500 BAGS OF BEANS AND 1000 BAGS OF KAPENTA TWALIMISHIBA UKO ULUPIYA LWAFUMA TATA $$$$$$.
no its not 2021,ITS 2016……..HE KNOWZ THAT SATA WONT STAND IN 2016………
Presidency requires people of proper character. HH GBM I would go for HH
what proper character does HH have apart from the greedy and thieving one?
I challenge you to tell the world your definition of proper character
Do dreams ever come true?
Next its Willie Nsanda, then Kambwili and Chikwelete endorsing themselves for the presidency…..kwena bu President nabupwalala pa Zed! leave such positions for Kabimba, Lubinda, Yaluma, Simusa and Yamfwa……spare us this grade 7 mentality ba GBM.
Not Kabimba, Please at least Lubinda and Simuusa ma presidential material.
Not Simuusa naimwe why cant you shut up
Not even Lubinda, you just dont know is true character
GBM makes interesting reading. He started the SATA endorsement crusade when re realised that Kabimba was way ahead of him.The strategy was to craete alot of confusion- push PF to a breaking point. if i cant have it then no one should. Now that Kabimba seems to have relented, he (GBM ) is back at it. Truth is that the man is after 2016. lets watch the space. GBM has officially launched is Presidential Campaign and fittingly so in his constituency-Kasama. Good luck GBM and come out more openly.
Problem of putting uneducated *****s in State House, now every ***** thinks he/she can rule Zambia. It is happening here in South Africa with Zuma. Now every *****, corrupt,or rape suspect thinks he can rule RSA. Indeed is Zuma or Sata can be president of some country, I can also be.
It is the entire continent… look at how guns are being turned on the ICC!
what you don’t understand is that leadership is not about education. there have been great men and women in history with no formal education that have steered the world to greater heights.
and conversely there have been the so called educate leaders than have brought miserly upon their people.
Zambia is no exception. KK has very humble education but he did so much for the country compared to any president we have had so far.
therefore education cannot be used as a yardstick for measuring leadership..NO!!
what you don’t understand is that leadership is not about education. there have been great men and women in history with no formal education that have steered the world to greater heights.
and conversely there have been the so called educate leaders than have brought miserly upon their people.
Zambia is no exception. KK has very humble education but he did so much for the country compared to any president we have had so far.
therefore education alone cannot be used as a yardstick for measuring leadership..NO!!
I totally agree with others who said education alone is not enough. Our most educated president with real masters degree in economics, was RB, but was most useless and corrupt one.
RB does not have a Masters in Economics, check your facts. The course in economics he read at Lund University in Sweden is equivalent to a diploma
Gen there have been great men, but GBM is not one of them.
YOU DELIBERATELY STARTED THE
ENDORSEMENT CAMPAIGN TO SEE IF
THE PRESIDENT WOULD GO FOR A
SECOND TERM.
OUR CONSTITUTION REQUIRES A PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE TO BE A DEGREE HOLDER.
WHICH UNIVERSITY HAS ENDORSED
YOUR DEGREE?
WYNTER HAS PERSONALITY AND HE IS
MORE CREDIBLE…
I doubt this bid bag of maize knows what is in the constitution. When the time comes he will have one of his useless children take an online degree course for him so he can qualify to run for presidency. The only way he can win is to rig the vote….watch Scandal on ABC, classic example of how a presidency can be won. LOL
iwe ka winter ka lihule no morale Lubinda can do good job forget about winter kalubale wamupamba
@Enka OR #1.
You have made my day.
Let me add that some missiles don’t take off or they simply land into the sea..
UNLESS YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR WEIGHT.
OTHERWISE ITS A TIME BOMB.
ITS LIKE PUTTING A TOYOTA COROLLA ENGINE IN A MARCOPOLO BUS EXPECTING TO BE DRIVING UNTIL 2021.
Ahaaaa!!!!!! He is the one who has presidential ambitions. He felt challenged by Kabimba and hence the fake endorsement messages.
GBM GBM GBM GBM Supported all the way 2021 president
After Sata Zambia needs a sensible university graduate to be president of Zambia. We must move away from having half-baked characters and kaponyas as presidents. Certainly GBM is not presidential material. God will be very cruel to Zambia if he were to annoint GBM to rule Zambia. We are tired of the brazen nepotism and tribalism practiced by this clique. For it to continue after 2016 will be disastrous.
Mr GBM (Gender Based Male Violence) Just say you wanted to stand in 2016 when you saw that your boss was ill. Your thinking then was that UKWA may not stand in 2016. Now that you have realised he is FIT you are trying to change ‘Time Goal Post’. Ba grade 7 do you think we are all grade 7s?
For as long as he is in control of the armed forces,he can take over the country at any time. Milton Obote made the same mistake of appointing Idi Amin as head of the army and later overthrew him. Power brings out strange things in people. Sata is creating serious confusion to mask all the corrupt activities and plundering. He is accumulating wealth for his extended family. He will leave us fighting so to divert attention.
I doubt if our nice army can sink so low as to side with GBM….I DONT THINK HE IS LIKED AT ALL, HE HAS JUST BE ACCEPTED AND should not become big headed
Why not challenge the 2016? It only makes sense Mr GBM, we need competition for the seat.
Now it is SELF-ENDORSEMENTS!
I think, Wellie NSANDA will take over from SATA, SO THAT Easter phiri, become the first lady
I thought the president stopped presidential talk,but mr GBM has started.Very soon some cadres will be indosing his candidature…….confusions in PF continues…
the plot thickens
FRED M’MEMBE CALLS WYNTER SAYING ” IWE STOP COWING LIKE A LITTLE BOY AM I NOT THE PRESIDENT MAKER,THE PUPETEER OF ALL THESE WISHFUL THINKING ZAMBIANS, I HAVE TOLD YOU JUST BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE I WILL MAKE YOU PRESIDENT OF ZAMBIA YOU JUST CONCENTRATE ON KEEPING THE LID ON THAT K18BILLION UNTILL 2016 THEN WE WILL UNLEASH A HORDE OF UNHOLLIES AGAINST THE PRESDO SINCE WE HAVE ALREADY INPLANTED OUR PEOPLE IN STRATEGIC POSITIONS IN THE DIASPORA AND HOME THE OLDMANS DISCIPLES WILL HAVE NO CHANCE AGAINST US’
“BUT MY LORD M’MEMBE LOOK AT THIS BULLY HE IS STARTING ME ALL OVER AGAIN ISNT IT ENOUGH HE HAS ALREADY EXPOSED ME AND NOW BA DADDY LOOKS AT ME WITH THAT KA EYE”
“IWE WHICH KA EYE ,CAN’T YOU SEE THE “STUPID *****” IS NEXT TO YOUR DADDY JUST MAKE SURE…
We need to change our constitution we can’t led by illiterates, Zambia needs to be drama free, this bag of maize will just mess up our country.
The problem in Zambia is that even a fool can easily be president by organising call boys for support in return for free rides on those lorries.
OOOOOOOOOOOOH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cindy I spat out my tea at that headline.
……..if I was an opposition leader I would go underground and sponsor some chaps to indorse his(GBM) call…..he would make a very good opponent to whitewash…..am sure even the likes of mulongoti and Dan Pule will get higher number of votes than…..
I doubt that, Pule more votes than GBM? Mmmmmmmmmmmmm…. am not sure about that one, the first point…. maybe with strong people like Dr Mumba and HH, not the names you have down there.
@SCRUTINIZERER…
Ha ha ha ha ha !!!!! What a naughty idea! Probably that’s what is happening? Anyway I’m sure the opposition have noted you innovative idea….unfortunately PF have just read it too!
Was hon Kabimba was just being used in GBM’s gullible machinations?
Yes Hon. Kabimba was just being used in GBM’s Gullible machination. The Great Bag of Manure even sponsored people to ‘Endorse’ Kabimba for 2016 in Kalulushi and Mansa. The whole endorsement ‘thing’ was to make himself the champion of President Sata and by so doing make others look like they don’t favor Sata for 2016. I do not remember Kabimba saying he is anti Sata for 2016, he said PF as a Party has a way of doing things. That the party has not yet sat to discuss this so called ‘endorsement’. GBM then went all over saying Kabimba is opposed to endorsing Sata for 2016!! It was all a GBM Machination. I’m glad Sata got proper intelligence information and did the correct thing to spare an innocent man (Kabimba).
I call for all young people to put to an end of these stupid mandalas. Sata should be the last old fool to rule our country. We need fresh blood and thinking. KK became president at 40 years of age and performed better during his first 15 years in office. Things turned sour when he got tired.
That’s when Zambia will become another Rwanda and Sierra Leone. This man is a thug and violence is a way of life, thus he will incite a lot of it like Ukwa. He is so arrogant and thinks that Sata will win 2016 elections, dream on. Zambia has always enjoyed peace until these muppets were voted in displaying their love for bloodshed.
KK,FTJ, LPM, RB, MCS next GBM . good initials
IF ONLY DREAMS WERE HORSES!!!!!
“There is no way you can expect President Sata to realise his dream in five years, it is impossible. So, let’s give President Sata a chance for a second term, I will be there to support him,” he said……
These guys are going to try and go for the third term!!!
I would rather Sata have a third term than this GBM mess any day.
Nevers Mumba or HH 2016 please.
mataba iwe..just get lost ala..
Nubian Princes (1.1), Saulosi (2) and Enka(3) – Hats off.
I endorse GBM for Presidency for 2016.
He is not a strategic thinker and a planner. He is shooting in his foot.
Any Tom Dick and Harry will love to have him as his opponent so that T, D or H can win without canvasing.
GBM is his own enemy.
Nevers or HH 2016 please.
This Genetically Built Moron thinks being fat is a qualification for the presidency. Or could it be he wants to use the presidency to lose weight. Nonsense!
Why are you people so seriuos,he wa sjust joking.Teti alande ichisungu with any president from US or a British PM,kuti kwabafye pardon,pardon,pardon