Q FM Africa's Modern Radio
The opposition MMD has maintained that it will not hold the convention being advocated by some members of the party.
Party Deputy National Secretary Winnie Zaloumis told a meeting chaired by party President Nevers Mumba yesterday that the party is standing on very firm ground and that the party President’s tenure of office would only expire in 2017.
According to a statement made available to QFM News, the meeting was also attended by two lawyers who had presented their legal opinion on the Party Constitution concerning the issue of holding a convention.
They lawyers reiterated that the party is standing on firm ground on the matter and that those calling for a convention had no legal backing.
They further informed the meeting that the NEC being the highest party organ in between conventions had legal and moral authority to make binding decisions on holding of conventions and any legal challenge to such decisions was doomed to fail.
And MMD leader Nevers Mumba assured the NEC members to remain focused as the period the party had reached was extremely crucial and enemies of the progress the party has made are panicking and want to derail and confuse the party, but that they are destined to fail.
And briefing the meeting on the status of the proposed alliance between the MMD and the Patriotic Front (PF), Dr. Mumba said that both himself and the Republican President Edgar Lungu had been out of the country but that the two leaders had communicated with each other prior to President Lungu’s departure for the Vatican.
He said the one-to-one preliminary meeting between the two leaders is on the cards and would take place as soon as a date is confirmed by both parties.