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GBM joins Patriotic Front

GBM joins Patriotic Front
By Patson Chilemba
Sunday September 28, 2008 [04:00]

LUSAKA businessman Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba popularly known as GBM has disclosed that he has joined PF campaigns to ensure that Michael Sata is elected Republican president in the October 30 presidential election. In an interview on Friday, Mwamba said he joined the Patriotic Front (PF) before president Levy Mwanawasa died. He said although the PF leadership had not included him in party president Sata’s campaign team, he was doing so as a proud member of the party.

Asked when he resigned from MMD since he had earlier announced intentions to contest the 2011 presidential election on the MMD ticket, Mwamba said he had been out of MMD for sometime and that he never found it necessary to announce the development.

Mwamba said he was recently in Northern Province campaigning for PF.
He said he would focus on campaigning for PF in Northern Province and later go to other areas.
“You may be surprised that even before sunset, I can be there Northern Province,” he said.

On his Northern Province campaign trail, Mwamba said PF’s popularity had gone up extremely well.

“I think you have to come there for yourself. Come and see me when I’m there. I won’t even talk to you, I will just take you round,” said Mwamba.
Mwamba also said he would not apply to contest parliamentary by-elections in Ndola-Central and Mwansabombwe.

Mwamba contested the 2006 Kabwata parliamentary election on the MMD ticket.
The seat was scooped by PF’s Given Lubinda.

Labels: GBM, PF

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