MMD suspends Lusaka chairperson
MMD suspends Lusaka chairpersonBy Kelvin Tembo
Tuesday January 22, 2008 [03:00]
THE MMD in Lusaka has suspended its district chairperson Paul Chihande and information and publicity chairperson Paul Banda with immediate effect for interfering with the selection of candidates for grassroots elections.
In an interview yesterday, Lusaka Province MMD chairperson Geoffrey Chumbwe said he established that Chihande and Banda were the officials that went to influence constituency officials during the selection process.
He said the two went to where the constituency officials were conducting interviews and started instructing them to pick their (Banda and Chihande’s preferred) candidate.
Chumbwe said the instructions issued by the two officials were considered acts of intimidation which would not be tolerated in the party.
“Interfering with selection of a candidate at constituency level is intimidation of lower organs and it will not be tolerated in the party because it brings divisions in our party structure which is not supposed to be the case,” Chumbwe said.
President Mwanawasa on Saturday during the Lusaka Province card renewal exercise said people of Kanyama should be given a candidate of their choice during the forthcoming by-elections.
He said the party had started elections at branch and ward levels.
President Mwanawasa said that it had come to his attention that somebody from the district went and directed the constituency to choose a candidate he preferred.
He directed Chumbwe to suspend the same official because he was interfering with democracy.
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