NEVERS MUMBA AKANA ATI MMD IS NOT A CARCASS, GOES FOR DICKSON JERE TOO
MMD NOT A CARCASS!
The MMD takes serious exception to the comment attributed to one Dickson Jeremaking reference to MMD as a carcass split.
We are deeply disappointed in the person who was a well-known advisor to the former Head of State, late RB of blessed memories.
The RB team inherited a living vibrant party and government after the death of late President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa.
The MMD lost power to PF under the watch of Dickson Jere and the team he advised.
They wanted to turn the party into a family affair, where party resources for 2011 campaigns were managed by children and family friends instead of party structures. The party structures did not campaign and Jere’s team lost miserably.
After failing the party that gave them power and responsibilities, Jere retired with our former President RB. The party was resilient and went to a convention to elect their leaders and Dr Nevers Sekwila Mumba emerged victorious.
Dr Mumba against all odds fought to keep the party alive, this include the brutality of the PF and their attempts to deregister the MMD through the Registrar of Societies. Dr Mumba raised the money and the then past President of the party and republic was alive with Jere as aide refused to help the party they just made lose power.
The party was put on track again, started to win by elections and mobilized in most of the provinces. Life was injected in the rank and file of the party.
It is regrettable that today I mention the name of our late President in this light, but it is due to an irresponsible statement attributed to a man who should not think he has a moral right to even speak about the party he led down in a very treacherous way.
It is Jere and his side who attempted to return to the helm of the party they abandoned when it so needed help and wanted to do so because the nation had another demise of a sitting President, Sata, may his soul rest in peace.
After their alebwelapo attempt when the party through the courts constitutionally couldn’t allow such a move, the same Jere advising the former President decided to join hands with the ‘enemy’, the PF and Mr Lungu to kill and destroy MMD and Nevers Mumba.
They sponsored people in the party to rise against their own party. They found willing tools like Nakachinda, and they did the damage.
They sponsored an illegal convention that saw Felix Chipota Mutati emerge as president of MMD which later, after four years of legal battles, was determined and pronounced illegal by the high court.
Hon Mutati as a gentleman made peace with the party and formed his MDC and that was the end of any factions in the MMD.
Dickson Jere still holds an illusion that MMD actually died because he worked hard to see it dead and today he wants to call it a carcass.
I am sure the sight of a revived and forward thinking MMD is haunting him.
A carcass is dead meat. I am sure Jere can’t believe his eyes that the MMD is on the rise and strong again.
We retaliate our partnership with our colleagues in the UPND working together with all political parties that mean well and progressive, that includes President Mutati and the MDC.
Jere should get used to it. This is the Zambia you shall see.
These are the politics we embrace. By the way we expected such silly outbursts from haters of democracy and development.
We shall remain focused and no one including Jere shall stand in the way of progress:
Core values and principles not politics of deceit, hate and Kano nine, others no.
Issued By:
Dr. Joshua Mulenga
Deputy National secretary MMD
NEVERS MUMBA AKANA ATI MMD IS NOT A CARCASS, GOES FOR DICKSON JERE TOO
