Dr Mumba said this during Lusaka’s Hot FM’s Red Hot Breakfast Show yesterday.
“Every political analyst understands that after a political party loses power, you have a mixed pot of emotions, expectations, anxieties, and that in the first two years is the most critical, we call that the intensive care unit,” Dr Mumba said.
He further said that Zambians voted out the MMD because of what he termed ‘a probable arrogance of power’.
Dr Mumba also disagreed with calls to reduce the presidential and parliamentary age limits to 18.
He was reacting to a submission to the Legal and Justice Sector Reforms Commission by Sishuwa Sishuwa, a University of Oxford scholar.
“I think we need to be a little more realistic, there are certain aspects that are not fully developed in terms of somebody becoming a president at 18,” Dr Mumba said.
“I am not saying they cannot be. In the old kingdoms, people would become kings at seven years old. They were surrounded by elders that ruled through them. But it may not be the same in a democracy, there are certain expectations,” he said.
According to Zambia’s current constitution, the legal age for one to qualify as a presidential candidate is 35 and 21 for one to stand as a Member of Parliament .
The current constitution further states that one needs to attain the age of 18 to be a registered voter.
Dr Mumba also said he is politically active because of maturity despite saying that he has no presidential ambitions on ZNBC’s Frank Talk show years ago.
“The best part of life is what we call growth and anybody who doesn’t change his views about issues as he develops and grows is dead,” he said.
“I think that any person who doesn’t change his mind about certain things he believed before, is not growing.”
Bana chimbusa
August 12, 2014 at 9:43 am
You people are dead and buried and hear me NEVER AND I MEAN NEVER TO BE RESURRECTED,ATASE
Trabalist
August 12, 2014 at 11:02 am
Ba Nevers. What stability are you talking about? You are raely dead and buried. We are thinking of a replacement to PF after 2016. As for you, a beg you to stick to the pulpit as assuring yourself will not add up to votes. Shame na shame ba pastor
ftj
August 12, 2014 at 10:24 pm
THE MAN OF GOD AT WORK.ALL THE ATTACKS FROM YJE WITCH KABIMBA,MOBEMBE,NCHITO AND THE REEMASONN HH ARE A PAST IN JESUS NAME.NEC IS FUNCTIONING TO GOD BE THE GLORY…..
HUMPHREY
August 12, 2014 at 1:27 pm
YES MMD AS REACHED A STAGE OF DEAD.NEVER TO BE RESURRECTED.MR MUMBA CONTINUE TO FOOL YOURSELF ABOUT MMD. I KNOW YOU KEEP ON STICKING TO THE MMD BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO IN ZAMBIA SINCE YOU ALOS LEFT THE PULPIT. WATCH THE SPACE AS YOU SLOWLY SEE MMD BEING BURIED FOR EVER AND IF YOU HAVE DOUBTS PLEASE CONSULT UNIP WHO ALSO THOUGHT EVERYDAY THAT UINP WILL BOUNCE BACK TO POWER AND IT IS NOW OVER 20 YEARS.
STATISTIC = MMD HAD OVER 100 MPS TODAY LESS THAN 40 MPS, MMD HAD MP’S IN LUSAKA AND THE COPPERBELT WHICH ARE THE STRONG ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE OF THE COUNTRY BUT TODAY NOTHING, MMD HAD GOVT MACHINERY TODAY NOTHING. HOPE MR MUMBA YOU CAN TAKE TIME TO STUDY MY LITTLE STATISTICS THEN MAKE YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT WHETHER YOU ARE MOVING OR NOT
ftj
August 12, 2014 at 10:26 pm
UNDER THE SPELL OF THE FREEMASON HH……
Mphangwe
August 13, 2014 at 2:34 pm
Pali HH tamulala but. Haleisa Haleishilila!!
Mabvuto
August 12, 2014 at 2:26 pm
even someone who has been lying in a coma for five years no improvement and not yet dead is considered stable.
Isaac
August 13, 2014 at 7:35 am
Kkkkkkkkkk Mabvuto you’re making me crack my ribs. There is no truth more that my dear brother. MMD is gone, how hard one may preach, it will never stand on its two feet again not in this life and not even in the life to come.
monk
August 12, 2014 at 8:39 pm
cicetekelofye na menshi yalakola
Ndeloleshafye
August 12, 2014 at 8:49 pm
But kwena tefintu mu MMD
Ndeloleshafye
August 12, 2014 at 8:50 pm
But ba MMD
MMD supporter
August 14, 2014 at 3:57 pm
No matter what happens Nevers Mumba will rule Zambia. Zambia is a Christian Nation and it needs a Christian Leader to survive from dieing