{"id":438790,"date":"2011-06-09T12:45:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T12:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/09\/mmd-senior-members-warned\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T12:45:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T12:45:36","slug":"mmd-senior-members-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/09\/mmd-senior-members-warned\/","title":{"rendered":"MMD Senior Members Warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"20.4360424028\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.co.zm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/timeszambia180.jpg\" alt=\"The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" title=\"Visit The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>9 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>THE MMD has warned its senior members against using President Rupiah Banda&#8217;s name to force lower organs of the party to adopt them as parliamentary candidates in this year&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy national secretary Chembe Nyangu said at a media briefing in Lusaka yesterday the party had identified some senior members who were lying that President Banda preferred them to their competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nyangu said this had put new applicants at a serious disadvantage and that the president was disappointed because he had not endorsed anyone.<\/p>\n<p>He said President Banda wanted the lower organs to independently check the applicants without influence from anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nyangu said applications were open even to people who had never been members of the party, which was the reason the advertisements did not specify how long an applicant should have been a member of the ruling party for them to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>He said there had been an overwhelming number of applications already received and that the party would ensure that the process was transparent because the party was looking for credible leadership.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106090892.html\" title=\"MMD Senior Members Warned\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMD Senior Members Warned<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 9 June 2011 THE MMD has warned its senior members against using President Rupiah Banda&#8217;s name to force lower organs of the party to adopt them as parliamentary candidates in this year&#8217;s elections. Deputy national secretary Chembe Nyangu said at a media briefing in Lusaka yesterday the party had identified some senior members who were lying that President Banda preferred them to their competitors. Mr Nyangu said this had put new applicants at a serious disadvantage and that the president was disappointed because he had not endorsed anyone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":438791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-438790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MMD Senior Members Warned - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/09\/mmd-senior-members-warned\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"MMD Senior Members Warned - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"9 June 2011 THE MMD has warned its senior members against using President Rupiah Banda&#039;s name to force lower organs of the party to adopt them as parliamentary candidates in this year&#039;s elections. 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