MMD spokesperson Dora Siliya has said the party’s chairperson for finance Ng’andu Magande risks disciplinary action if it is established that he has prematurely started campaigning for the party presidency through the placing of advertisements on some community radio stations round the country.
And MMD Copperbelt Province chairperson Joseph Chilambwe has advised Mr Magande to immediately withdraw his campaign advertisement on the Kitwe based Catholic owned Radio Icengelo because it was premature to do so.
In an interview yesterday, Ms Siliya said Mr Magande was a senior member of the ruling party who understood the party constitution and the need not to be involved in activities which violate the party’s constitution.
“We have just received reports alleging that Mr Magande is involved in campaign activities and if the reports alleging that he has placed advertisements to call on delegates to vote for him at the national convention are true, the party’s disciplinary committee will deal with him according to the laid down procedures,” she said.[quote]
She said the MMD national chairperson’s message was clear that no one was allowed to campaign for any position at the forthcoming MMD convention until they were authorised to do.
Ms Siliya said a special NEC committee that had been tasked with the preparation for the national convention had not completed its work and it was premature for any official or NEC member to get involved in any kind of campaign.
Mr Chilambwe said Mr Magande should desist from the habit of playing hide and seek with the MMD leadership by engaging in campaign activities using the back door.
An advertisement playing on Radio Icengelo, which broadcasts to the entire Copperbelt is calling on the delegates to the forthcoming MMD convention, especially the youths to vote for Mr Magande as the party president.
The advertisement, which is in form of a song, also promises youths employment opportunities once they voted for Mr Magande.
[Times of Zambia]
Democracy is an amimal the MMD did not realize would one day hunt and haunt them.
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Dora, has become so pawafu too soon! she thinks we have forgotten the zamtel issue. we are waiting as our AXE is razor sharp to chop down the mighty MMD tree
How i hurt to see the face of Dora!! she thinks she is the best person who knows politics.She has wing that can enable her fly and land at Bwezani. We need Democracy and don’t start threatening people. I give credit to Mangande, Shaka, Mpombo to mention a few. They are real men and i am with you and i will support to the end.
Go ahead and discipline him. who cares! after all you all think like ~:> including magande himself!
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Need To show the Boss that you are hard working, ka? Expel him!!:)>-
Magande should very well know that it is not okay to go aganist any institution’s regulations. Dora is right by pointing out that as Senior member he should exercise patience. “A vulture is a patient bird”
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Mai Banda must be very careful with Adora ka. May end up like what happened to Vera. After all Chiluba says RB is his close friend.
So it is OK for danderheads like the polygamous x 4 CB MMD chairman to campaign for Lupiya while Magande is stopped to campaign for himself. Chakanga nkhuku baka ingamele.
Leave Magande alone he is far much better than RB. We will start Compaigning for you dont worry we are behind you.
power power …this lady has being put on that position in reaction to HH wanting to put a female V.president..see zambians lets read between the lines..and although magande is waisting time he has a right to stand coz he is in a democratic party as MMD founding fathers claim..please believe me
Doramania! #11 I didn’t know ‘polygamous’ was a swear word… I thought it was a way of life especially in SP…
Dora of all people to talk about discipline!!LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
very interesting, yet makes sad reading. Ninshi fwebena zambia twali pwalala nagu shani………..[-(**==
this ka hule is already making noise..Magande is doing the right thing like what u chaps do for bwezani kumbuyo…viva uncle Peter..
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You guys you always negative.Surely you are the PhD.Give people chance to develop themselves .As for magande hold your fire.Wait for t he whistle to blow.Take it easy.Be confident of your self.
You guys you always negative.Surely you are the PhDown.Give people chance to develop themselves .As for magande hold your fire.Wait for t he whistle to blow.Take it easy.Be confident of your self.
Dora Siliya is already making a lot of noise talking garbage, she has no shame in herself. She says Magande is violating the party constitution, really? Dora like Mulongoti and Shikapwasha just opens her mouth without thinking. Can she explain this, Does the unilateral adoption of Rupiah as sole candidate not violate the party’s constitution? Dora will do anything for Rupiah to strengthen their relationship and as a THANK YOU for all the dubious favours. Please, just shut up!
There is nothing to say here except that some people are more equal than others, one wounders where she gets all that power from????????????????:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?:d/:d/:d/
O yes I alomst forgot from her best friend enjoy while you can things change with time Alabee is not the almight
Imwe ma bloggers too much Doraectomy, spare her please.
Since Magande has a degree, let him cross over to PF and stand as President. Time is now to market himself.
As a senior party member, Magande should respect the party rules. At the same time, these so-called democrats should not say RB is their sole candidate nor should they be campaining for him – as they are presently doing – until the time is ripe.
Is this DORA BANDA -I mean RB’s 3rd wife?
The over zealous, Dora, hold your peace. This is a democracy and there is no time limits to campaigning. My dream is to be president in 2045 but if i want to lay my foundation i have to start campaigning now. Magande is right he is just trying to lay a foundation. Obama started campaigning for party presidence in 2006 and nobody stopped him. If you don’t want to practice democracy, change the name of the party to suit the Easterners.
This woman has an mportant job as Minister of Education. I am suprised bloggers are not concerned ….She should be giving speech related to education only. Why does MMD give this woman all the positions in the party? Is she the only member of MMD ? A recycled politician…the same little fingers in the pudding of all sectors in Zambia.
#28 Mind typo error …Let Magande campaign he has a degree
MMD HAS MADE A GRAVE MISTAKE BY APPOINTING DORA AS ITS SPOKESPERSON. PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT HER CASE. TO MANY ZAMBIA DORA MEANS CORRUPTION AND ALL THE BAD THINGS ASSOCIATED WITH IT. BECAUSE OF THAT ANYTHING THAT WILL COME OUT OF DORA’S MOUTH WILL NEVER BE RECIEVED WELL.
IMPUTI ISULA TAILEKA! These are the people with degree talking from their behinds. What this woman has failed to realise is that everytime she opens her mouth, she reminds us about the sins she commited against us all these years. Besides she is supposed to be addressing the education they have so much been talking about! Not the useless party politics like little children.
#26, 27, 28 & 29, You are spot on! This administration stinks, they have no morals. everything will now evolve on Dora.
Wena Dora, please!!! Really? You must be hungry and missing something…
Its really Dora 4 * 4 …Dorathe most powerful lady in Zambia.
Oh boy, are you guys serious Dora is the person to be disciplining people? She needs the discipline herself as a Rehabilitated Gold Digger/Cougar who married a cub once upon a time!! Surely MMD these are not the people you will have speak for you, as a person who supported the MMD manifesto (which died years ago as they sem to have nothing to offer) when it started i don’t think this is the party i voted for. They have lost it, people with no direction whatso ever leading. Whats the big deal with Magande campaigning? If you are a confident party you would not worry about him? Its his money being used. Its called democracy, which we embrace so let the guy campaign. Let freedom reign and hence do not start the threatening game. Dora, find something better to do and stand for.
#34, Kambongolo, When you say the most powerful lady in Zambia you remind me of Kadzamila who was ‘Official Hostess’ to former Malawi president Kamuzu Banda. She was given limitless powers by the president and dreaded by all. Now Zambia has own version of an awesome and powerful ‘official hostess’ under another autocratic President Banda. We are in trouble.
Please Madame Dora state what your party constitution exactly states? Did i hear authorised? by who? We have a long way to go in politics that make sense, I am so sick and tired of listening to nothing but smoke and having leaders who don’t know what they stand for but politics of appeasement, do not take the people of Zambia for granted and give them some trashy leaders who really don’t have anything to offer but everything to get. Surely MMD do not let Dora to say anything on your behalf because she sucks and has got bad energy for the public. MMD is headed for a dying party.
Enter Dora exitShikapwashya, maybe she will be more sensible than the last MMD spokesperson.
#38 What about her duties as Minister of Education?Does Dora Siliya not realise she is in charge of one of the most important Ministries like Health? She is not superwoman. The Ministry of Education needs all her attention…it does not make sense why the media is letting this woman play around with posts that affect Zambia’s future. Her speeches should only be about educational programs etc. How many countries have their Minister of Education being their party spokesperson too? Being a spokesperson is time consuming and can make a person unfavorable. Education needs an inspiring person who will concentrate only on it’s progress and bring the whole country together. Dora too many fingers in the pudding.
to every one, hear me out pleeeeeeeeeease. the world is dangerous not because of what wrong people are doing, but because of every one not doing anything about it.