The Supreme Court has ruled that the official candidate for the Movement for Multi Party Democracy to contest the forthcoming by election is Nevers Mumba. The Supreme Court also affirmed that as a Supreme Court has powers to determine any matter. At issue where the decision of a meeting by the National Executive Committee (NEC) held on 18th November 2014 which decided to suspend Nevers Mumba and adopted Rupiah Banda as the MMD Presidential Candidate and the court injunction issued by the High Court and obtained by Nevers Mumba. The Judge below erred by failing to consider facts submitted by Mumba in his application for an interim court injunction and ignored those facts when discharging the injunction. The court however accepted that the High Court Judge below did not evaluate the affidavits signed by Nevers Mumba. Mumba also stated that he was the lawful candidate for the forthcoming Presidential by-elections. This is the case in which Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) Nevers Sekwila Mumba appealed a decision of the High Court that declared former President Rupiah Bwezani Banda as the Presidential Candidate. Mumba is also challenging the decisions of an NEC Meeting that suspended him and picked Mr. Banda as the Presidential Candidate for the MMD
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:58:28 +0000
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