The National Democratic Congress NDC will contest the forthcoming Chilanga constituency parliamentary by election.

The party will also field candidates in all the six local Government vacant seats.

The local government by elections to be held in three region’s will take place on June 5th 2018.

The NDC Secretariat will in due course issue guidelines to all prospective candidate’s intending to contest the chilanga seat and all the six local government vacant seats.

The NDC is extremely over whelmed by the number of inquiries from persons wishing to jostle for the said vacant seats.

The party implores all members in areas to hold by elections to go flat out and mobilise the masses in readiness for the polls.

NDC is slowly turning out to be a vanguard party and as such, the grouping will endeavour to contest all future by elections that might arise.

The NDC will use these polls to test its swelling popularity.

The NDC wishes to take this opportunity to the ECZ to declare the Mutundu ward seat in Mufulira on the Copper belt vacant.

This follows the conviction of the area pf councillor Jonathan Ntambo by the Mufulira magistrates court.

Ntambo is currently serving a one year sentence at Mufulira central prison for theft.

The NDC has information that the Pf has instructed the District Electoral Officer in the affected locality not to write to the ECZ to declare the local government seat vacant.

We have information that the Pf Mufulira District Chairman Dominic Mwale has instructed the Town Clerk of Mufulira not to inform the ECZ on the conviction of the mutundu ward councillor.

We are optimistic that the ECZ Will follow this issue with interest.

We demand that the seat be declared vacant as Ntambo has served three month’s of the one year jail sentence.

Issued by: Ackson Simwezya Chairperson for Elections NDC.