GBM joins UPND?

Patriotic Front Kasama Central Member of Parliament Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba popularly known as GBM is set to ditch the ruling party to join the opposition UPND at a media briefing to take place at Cresta Golfview hotel in Lusaka today.

Mr Mwamba who had dragged the ruling party to court after being expelled for campaigning for UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema during the January 2015 presidential is earmarked for appointment as UPND vice president replacing Richard Kapita who defected to the PF recently.

Mr Mwamba’s decision to relinquish his membership of the ruling party means he will no longer be Member of Parliament for Kasama Central paving way for a long anticipated by-election.

The resignation of a Member of Parliament is not new to Kasama Central constituency with Mr Mwamba himself having been first elected MP in 2009 in a by-election that followed the resignation of Dr Savior Chishimba as PF Member of Parliament.

Mr Mwamba was reelected Member of Parliament for Kasama central during the 2011 tripartite elections with a landslide polling 25,210 votes against his nearest rival Chilekwa Munkonge of the MMD who polled 4,357 votes.