On Saturday, Nevers Mumba, the president of the MMD, expelled the party’s national chairman Kabinga Pande, Felix Mutati, Situmbeko Musokotwane, Kenneth Chipungu, Kapembwa Simbao and Levy Ngoma, along with 12 other national executive committee members for crossing the floor and gross misconduct. Nevers also expelled national secretary Muhabi Lungu and his deputy Chembe Nyangu for backing other parties’ presidential candidates in the January 20 presidential election.
It was not difficult to guess that Nevers would take this route. This is the easiest option for Nevers, but one with the worst consequences.
It is a lot easier to expel people than to reconcile differences with them. And Nevers, not wanting to do a lot of work, went for the easiest option – expulsions.
Well, no one can deny that nothing wrong was done. There was definitely a violation of party discipline on the part of all those who went to campaign for candidates of other political parties instead of supporting Nevers – the MMD candidate.
Nevers has only expelled those who went to support the UPND presidential candidate and not those who opted to support the candidate of the Patriotic Front. The reasons for this are not clear. Nevers says they are still investigating. Investigating what?
At the helm of the group that was supporting the Patriotic Front candidate was Rupiah Banda. Is Nevers capable of expelling Rupiah from the MMD?
And after all these expulsions, what is Nevers remaining with? The party is gone! What Nevers is holding today is simply a shell where the MMD used to reside. The party is finished. Nevers should just start something else and call it another name.
Anyway, Nevers has lost nothing because the MMD was not his. The same goes for Rupiah. Both of them simply came in to enjoy the benefits of the sweat and toil of those who founded the MMD. It was not their political party. Nevers had his own political party, which he failed to develop and abandoned. Rupiah also was UNIP and was never part of the MMD until 2006 when he was asked to help Levy Mwanawasa’s campaign in Eastern Province.
As for Nevers, our advice is: he is better off as a preacher and not as a politician. His political decisions have been very poor. Expelling all these people at once in the very weak political situation he is in speaks volumes about his political judgment. The best he could have done in the circumstances is to find some accommodation with them while trying to strengthen himself.
What do these expulsions mean for the MMD? Is Nevers really ready for parliamentary by-elections?
We know that Michael Sata had at one time expelled almost all his members of parliament. And it is easy to imitate that. But the circumstances were different. Michael had authority in his party. Nevers doesn’t have that type of authority in MMD. Michael was leading a political party whose popularity was rising. Nevers is in charge of a political party whose political fortunes are declining. Michael was not being challenged by anybody for the leadership of the Patriotic Front. Nevers’ leadership is every day being questioned and challenged. So it doesn’t make sense for Nevers to behave as if he has full control of the MMD when he doesn’t. The people Nevers has expelled constitute the MMD in its current form today. Without them, what remains of the identity of the MMD will be gone.
If Nevers wants to start a new political party, the best he can do is simply to leave the MMD. Trying to bring down the MMD and construct a new party on its ruins will not do for Nevers. Rebuilding a political party is not an easy undertaking. Sometimes it is much better to simply start afresh and build a completely new party with a different name and leadership. This is the end of the MMD as a political party. The MMD will be lucky to win one parliamentary seat in next year’s elections.
We don’t see many of the remaining MMD members of parliament recontesting their seats on Nevers’ ticket. This means that Nevers will have to find new members of parliament. Where will he find them?
Those who supported the Patriotic Front candidate are likely to contest next year’s elections on that party’s ticket and not on the MMD’s. If this happens, who will win a parliamentary seat for the MMD in 2016?
Nevers should simply face reality and accept that his MMD project has failed. It’s time for him to move on and do something else – politics has failed him.
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For sure this guy shud go back to pulpit. He has messed his life wt politics
Mulekeni umunenu nga mwamukoselapo shani? every person has the right to choose what he wants to be. Nga imwe teti muye ku pulpit? tabakanya iyoo, naimwe bene kuti mwaya pepesha ba mafi.
As Nevers returns to the pulpit, let the Post also go and pay the TAXES to ZRA
Indiscipline shudcbe condemned at all cost and all found wanting should face the consequences. I believe mmd has a way of dealing with members who go against the party laws un like upnd. The party constitution is the one which expelled the politicians of the belly and not mumba. Bravo mumba and uphold the party constitution. Let those fools go and join other parties.
Its not too late. Let Nevers Mumba do a ka prodigal son.
Ati, he only expelled those who supported upnd, wat of Muhabi lungu? Besides y do expelled mps insist 2b in mmd yet thy v found a beta party?
R.b, ewalenga fyonse fi, coz he suported n mumba instead of situmbeko,mutati,simbao, chituo, etc. l remember wen we were voting in kopala. Dora, namulambe came and told us bikapo Mumba ,she had a lot of dollars ngamwasala mumba how give u this cash. ati bikapo yewe, kopala voted 4 mutati. ninshi Dora nabamulaya bu VEEP kuli Mumba elyo bamulanga aka RED.R.b thot he wl b controling Mumba nao bamulasa aka RED. This election r.b asked mumba 1 on 1 talk mumba refused ati ba pastor ,na bible mulekata imwe? no heart of 4giving. umwana kasembe kakukoma wakobeba. go back 2 church, nawakwi 3, ba ruling party eyo kusebana uku mmd.
Let Him Be.
He is a prodical son the post is right let him go back to the pupit only when he realizes that he is in a wrong place then he will have peace he said it joining politics will be a demotion every day he will called names I thought as man of god he was going to give the other chick to be slapped that’s what the bible says but he goes for suspensions man of god go back to what u are called for u can save Zambians by saving there life’s in the life to come may the hand of god touch u to make a good decision god bless u
Did this Nevers campaign to demolish UTH or his Church? For now, UTH yapusuka!
Kikikikiki!!!he said he will demolish UTH once voted into power and build a modern structure.
Zoona yalipusuka.
The Post Are Not The Right People To Talk About Nevers Mumba Because They Also Have A Skeleton. The Post, Go And Pay Tax To Government So That It Can Help In Procurement Of New Drugs In Health Department Or In Road Construction Etc. What Is More Important, You To Pay Tax For Zambian People To Benefit Or You To Talk About Nevers Mumba And His Idiots? We Want To Hear That The POST Has PAID TAX To ZRA, Not That Post Tells Mumba To Urinate. What Nosense Is This.
Yes the Post should not get involved- the idiots. As for the confusion FTJ is the cause.
Nevers should be consigned to a farm not going back to the pulpit coz even there he will expel members who mingle with other denominations. If not the farm then to a Zoo where he can earn Zambia much needed income as he poses as a Lion in a cage.
Better alome than bad MPs.ba mumba
Like i mentioned earlier before elections, Neves is called to save in the ministry of God. My heart bleads whenever i think of Zambia shall be Saved service. please man of God it is not too late. Kuichaila fye/ GO BACK TO YOUR CALLING THE LORD WANTS TO USE YOU AGAIN, PLEASE TWAPAPATA LEAVE POLITICS.
ka secret sin. go to the pulpit, leave him alone bakabolala kabubemba akalemushupa
KU NINIVE KWENA MUKAYA TATA BA MUMBA. NANGU CHIKABE SHANI
No No No, Politics has not failed Nevers Mumba, it’s him who has failed Politics given all the opportunities he’s had; Veep, Ambassodor, MMD President etc. etc.. By The Way you can’t be an active Politician and be an active Preacher at the same time. He has to go back to his Calling while he is still Younger, probably by the Grace of God he can still make it like he did years back. Indeed he can do better with ‘Zambia shall be saved Ministries’ than he can with ‘One Zambia, One Nation Ministries’.