COUNCIL OF ELDERS GATHERING ELECTS EX-MINISTER SIMBAO AS PRESIDENT
The Council of Elders that convened a gathering of political parties and civil society members have elected Kapembwa Simbao as a presidential candidate and Economist Yusuf Dodia as running mate.
Simbao who recently was elected as president of the Zambia We Want served as Minister under President Frederick Chiluba.
Politician and senior Lusaka lawyer Sakwiba Sikota will be the Chairman of the alliance while Veteran politician Muhabi Lungu will be the Secretary General.
The Council of Elders is headed by retired politician Akashambatwa Mbikusita Lewanika who is deputized by Mbita Chitala. The duo founded the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) in 1990.
See the results below:
First round of voting
Yusuf Dodia 25
Sakwiba Sikota 28
Chishala Kateka 32
Trevor Mwamba 45
Kapembwa simbao 47
Brian Mushimba 49
There being no one with 50+1, it went going run off between the top two candidates.
The last round Simbao got 65 percent of the vote
These goons , they’re moving like wind, they go this side they can’t find what they’re looking for, they turn around and go the other way and you say older ones have wisdom, what a joke, shameless chaps. The other group has gone to Mmembe,
surprising that aka can sink so low. Smoking what?
I thought the council of elders was going to come up with a direction to guide other political actors on the stage, but l am surprised that they themselves are a political party, is this not a way of further dividing the vote
I am equally surprised. In Zambia, politics is a means to get very wealthy. They have seen how the current regime members have become so wealthy now that they own mines. Sugillite worth 750 million USD got stolen from a police station, yet the president has never said anything about that theft. The gold scandal at KKIA, yet the president stayed mute. Politicians are thieves.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN AUGUST.
MUNYAULE DEALER WA GOLD.