PRESS STATEMENT
DATE: 18 AUGUST 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ISSUED BY THE OFFICE OF MS. DOLIKA BANDA
Today, I announce that I am seeking to run for the Office of the President of the Republic of Zambia in the 2026 election.
It is my conviction that it is time for serious leadership, selfless leadership, and sober leadership.
I pledge to bring to the table, a lifetime of service, global financial experience, and a heart that beats for this country.
I have not taken this decision lightly: we are living in a political culture where power often resists correction, where intimidation can precede truth. Our democracy is strained. The promises of
prosperity have given way to daily struggle in Zambian homes. The rule of law has been selectively applied, state institutions weakened, and public trust eroded.
Yet there is hope. Something wonderful, vibrant and intentional is unfolding to restore the foundations of this great and beautiful nation. Over the next few weeks, I will unveil a team of
honest and competent Zambians, young and old, who are joining me in this cause.
But it must unfold with order, with honour, and in the spirit of national service and candid reverence for
God who has planted the mandate in my heart to take Zambia forward. Let authenticity rule.
I am no stranger to the challenges of rebuilding, reforming, and restoring. My leadership has always been marked not by noise, but by quiet competence, compassion, and a determined
resolve to uplift those left behind by the opportunity train. I have negotiated international investments with the same passion with which I have fought for the ordinary market woman. My
record is built across borders and in-country, deeply and visibly grounded in service to the people.
Zambia shall reclaim her national pride, dignity, opportunity, and fairness. A nation where mining revenues fuel schools and hospitals, where climate finance reaches farmers, where young
entrepreneurs are invested in. And where public office is not the pinnacle of ambition but the beginning of service.
We will turn away from strongmen, saviours and favour, and toward institutions, ideas and ideology, and intergenerational justice.
Together we will renew our democracy, heal divisions, and chart a path where hope is earned by hard work, shared sacrifice, and a steadfast belief that a better future is deserved by all and that, that future begins today. Zambia, are you ready?
Ms. Dolika Banda
X official Link: https://x.com/Official_DBanda/status/1957372982827098623?t=_jaD1NiA5JU2VDEeb3YE4w&s=19
If this woman runs wants to think she can run the country the way she runs boards?
Standard Chartered bank made a loss during her first year at the helm, some people want to suggest ZCCM was political. Standard Chartered is a PLC whats the excuse? Hardly inspiring, when the first year is marked by a loss and want to suggest the issues that plague Zambia will be any different.
Anywho…lets wait to hear what she really has to offer. Her uncle was reminded by being voted out of office. So lets wait and hear.
Now which party?
Come and join chishala kateka and imbo saboi who are now gone in hibernation no impac, fuledi mmembe is busy preaching bitterness, hatrages and tribalism while kalaba no direction.
Good on her. Like any Zambian, she has every right. Go for it lady, you never know how high you can fly, until you spread your wings. Throw your hat in. All the best.
One day is a long time in politics they say. Mr Hakainde Hichilema and the UPND thought there’s no opposition in Zambia. Well, Dolika Banda has put her hat in the ring. She is a credible person with vast experience in Corporate Management. She brings to the fore Corporate and public sector experience.
On nation resource management she knows the inner workings of the Mining Sector, and in her statement she mentions Mining Revenue to finance the social Sectors, prudent use of our resources to support Zambians. On governance she talks about weakened institutions of governance and the erosion of the rule of law. These are the concerns of most Zambians.
It’s not about cash for work, meal allowances for University Students, or CDF , it’s about Governance, our multi party democracy, the rule of law, functional Legislature and Judiciary, working Democratic Systems.
The Registrar of Societies please don’t put obstacles on Dolika Banda ‘s movement..And no hopeless Imingalato and no phishing exercises … sedition, hate speech, corruption against this woman.
Let’s have fair competition now and towards 2026.
Madam Dolika Banda, welcome on board.
Many Zambians will support you.
She is welcome, we will meet her politically, in the field
There are very few Zambians who are Truthworthy. These Politicians sweet talk the illiterates/semi illiterates and tribally inclined Voters and these Voters blindly and gullibly “swallow the Bait” and vote for them. Then the Voters continue complaining for the next 5 years to the next General Election and another Crook comes along to mislead them. What a Circus!
@simpo sitali
Good observation. What we need are strong institutions of governance. If we strengthen our institutions, we will be able to keep in check the crooks , the politicians. A politician is inherently Crooked… Only strong institutions can put him to size.
Any politician who weakens the rule of law, destroys democratic institutions such as the Legislature and Judiciary, Human Rights Commission, ECZ , Registrar of Societies etc is a danger to our democracy, and crooked.. not worth being in power.
Strong institutions are only as strong as the integrity of those running them. They don’t operate in a vacuum.
Not inspiring, but she it’s her right.