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MMD doesn’t want Chiluba - Teta

MMD doesn’t want Chiluba - Teta
By Brighton Phiri
Saturday October 06, 2007 [04:00]

MMD does not want to be associated with Chiluba, MMD spokesperson Benny Tetamashimba said yesterday. Reacting to former president Frederick Chiluba's statement that it would be an abomination for him to rejoin the ruling MMD, Tetamashimba, who is also works and supply deputy minister, said the ruling party was not interested in asking Chiluba to rejoin the MMD.

"I don't know who asked him to come back to MMD. He did not tell us when he defected to Patriotic Front. There is nobody in MMD national executive committee who can go to him and ask him to come back," Tetamashimba said. "We don't want to be associated with people who made the country to be bad."
Tetamashimba said the MMD was very comfortable without Chiluba in its midst.

"In fact the country's economy is doing very well under the New Deal government as compared to the period when he was leading this country," he said. "Let him remain in PF and we wish him well."

Chiluba on Thursday said media reports that he was rejoining the MMD were both highly offensive and insulting.
He said he supports the opposition Patriotic Front (PF) and not the ruling MMD.

Chiluba said he was too principled "to commit such an abomination" as to rejoin the MMD.

He said while he had many friends in MMD, there was nothing beyond that friendship.

"I am not MMD or New Deal," said Chiluba. "I have many friends in the MMD but that is as far as it goes."
Chiluba ditched the MMD last year saying the party had lost its original vision, which he associated himself with.
He said the New Deal MMD was not the same MMD he helped found in 1990.

Labels: CHILUBA, MMD

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