The President's main rival former Vice-President Nevers Mumba (strongly backed by ex-President Frederick Chiluba) was sacked from the party for accusing Mwanawasa and his wife Maureen of using state funds to buy convention votes...
Former Vice-President Nevers Mumba may make a bid as may current Vice-President Lupando Mwape...
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa sacked Vice-President Nevers Mumba on 4 October for igniting a serious diplomatic row...
National Vice-President and televangelist Nevers Mumba who disbanded his National Christian Coalition party to join the MMD complains that he is treated as an outsider...
Before the impeachment debate some opposition members of parliament had walked out in protest against the new Vice-President Nevers Mumba saying he was constitutionally unqualified...
The man who provoked them to action is Kavindele's replacement Nevers Mumba a charismatic tele-evangelist who had quit his own party just one day beforehand...
Northern Province votes could divide four ways between 'King Cobra' Sata (PF) whose stomping ground is the town of Mpika; Mwila (ZRP) who has been campaigning hard in a region neglected during the MMD's ten-year reign; Nevers Mumba (National Citizen's Coalition); and Gwendoline Konie (Social Democratic Party)...
Other parties are negotiating a unity ticket: National Citizens Coalition (NCC) of tele-evangelist Nevers Mumba; Social Democratic Party (SDP) led by Gwendoline Konie; Agenda for Zambia (AZ) under Akashambatwa Lewanika and Tilyenji Kaunda of KK's formerly ruling United National Independence Party (UNIP)...
There is a buzz that Nevers Mumba President of the National Citizens' Coalition may try for the UNIP presidency at the party congress on 28 December...
Some old-fashioned socialist-leaning elder members are floating the fanciful idea of poaching Zambia's charismatic evangelist Nevers Mumba who leads the moribund National Citizens Coalition and might like to try his feet in Kaunda's big boots...