The favourites to take over from Pohamba are the former Prime Minister and current Trade and Industry Minister Hage Geingob and the SWAPO Secretary General and Justice Minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 9 |
- NAMIBIA
- CHINA
Amongst others a large amount was paid in cash to John Nauta Special Advisor to former President Sam Nujoma; similarly substantial payments were made to Knowledge Katti a business associate of Trade and Industry Minister Hage Geingob who is also Deputy President of the ruling party...
Now the ex-President's support seems to be shifting towards SWAPO's Vice-President Hage Geingob the Trade and Industry Minister...
Former Prime Minister Hage Geingob’s unopposed election as SWAPO Vice-President makes him favourite to succeed Pohamba as national presidential candidate in 2014...
Its Central Committee has nominated Pohamba the party's current Vice-President and Hage Geingob a former Premier who is Chief Whip in the National Assembly as uncontested 'preferred candidates' for the SWAPO presidency and vice-presidency...
The favourite for the vice-presidency is SWAPO’s Chief Whip in the National Assembly Hage Geingob who was Prime Minister from 1990 to 2002...
One candidate to succeed Pohamba could be former Premier Hage Geingob...
Former Prime Minister Hage Geingob would still like to be president; Hamutenya (now reconciled with Pohamba his distant cousin) is seen as divisive and the Nujoma loyalists would bitterly resist his candidacy...
Former Prime Minister Hage Geingob is tipped for Foreign Affairs Minister...
Pohamba will have to accommodate former Prime Minister Hage Geingob who left his job in the United States and returned to Namibia after winning re-election to the Assembly last November...