MMD MEMBERS GIVE NEVERS 9 DAYS TO STOP MASQUERADING, CALL FOR CONVENTION
MMD Members have given Nevers Mumba and his National Secretary, Elizabeth Chitika, nine days to call for an elective Party Convention and cease calling himself ‘MMD President’.
The members also demand that a National Transition Committee be set up to oversee the party as it heads for an elective Party Convention.
The former ruling party members say should Dr. Mumba and Ms. Chitika fail to heed to their demands, they will take legal action against them.
In a letter dated 10th March 2025, through their Lawyer Messrs Joseph Chirwa and Company, they have given Dr. Mumba upto 19th March 2025 to act or face legal proceedings citing that the clergyman is masquerading as MMD leader.
They affirm that Dr. Mumba’s tenure came to an end in 2021 and hence all these years he has been an imposter and masquerader because he is illegally in that office.
“In the same vein, we have further been instructed to demand that the said Nevers Sekwila Mumba ceases and desists from further masquerading as party President with immediate effect as he is illegally holding out as such,” the letter reads in part.
The bonafide members, Frank Francis Bowa, and Edith Mataka, acting on behalf of others party members across the country contend that an elective Party Convention is needed now as that is backed by the Constitution in Article 60 that one can only serve for a period of two terms of five years each.
Dr. Mumba was elected as MMD leader in 2012 and in 2021 his tenure came to an end but has still held on without holding any election.
In demanding that after a date is set, they want a National Transition Committee be set so that the process to the convention is smooth and devoid of malpractice or unfair treatment from any interested party members.
“In these premises, we have been instructed to demand from you, as we do now, that a national Convention be held and a National Transition Committee be established for the purpose of holding the said Convention to fill up the positions in the NEC as the current NEC has no Constitutional mandate and is thereby illegally functioning,” Counsel Chirwa and Company states.
They warn of legal ramifications should the two not proceed in the direction they as MMD members demand.
“Should you fail to adhere to our demands, we have firm instructions to commence legal proceedings against you in order to remedy the status quo. You have up to Wednesday 19th March 2025 to accede to our demands,” closes the demand letter.
Meanwhile the petioned, Dr Mumba and Ms. Chitika have all resisted to receive the demand letters delivered at their residences in Lusaka.
The MMD today has no known Secretariat after their eviction from the Kabulonga office resulting in Ms. Chitika using her private house where she resides, Plot 57 Munali Road in Chudleih Lusaka, as MMD Secretariat.