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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>THE Movement for Democratic Change-MDC- party vice president Leonard Hikaumba has dispelled claims by some members that party president Felix Mutati has been swallowed up by the ruling UPND.<\/p>\n

Speaking when he featured on 5fM radio and aired on SPICE FM, Mr Hikaumba has explained that Mr. Mutati has not abandoned the leadership of the opposition party, but that he is only delivering his ministerial duties as is expected for any appointed minister under the UPND alliance.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile he has described the performance of the UPND in its one year of holding office as successful. He says there was so much damage allegedly caused by the previous regime that the UPND and its alliance partners are fixing.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Zambia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. THE Movement for Democratic Change-MDC- party vice president Leonard Hikaumba has dispelled claims by some members that party president Felix Mutati has been swallowed up by the ruling UPND. Speaking when he featured on 5fM radio and aired on SPICE FM, Mr Hikaumba has explained that Mr. Mutati has not abandoned the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,8,10,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-29090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nMUTATI HAS NOT ABANDONED HIS PARTY, HIKAUMBA - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Movement for Democratic Change-MDC- party vice president Leonard Hikaumba has dispelled claims by some members that ...\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mutati-has-not-abandoned-his-party-hikaumba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MUTATI HAS NOT ABANDONED HIS PARTY, HIKAUMBA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Movement for Democratic Change-MDC- party vice president Leonard Hikaumba has dispelled claims by some members that ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mutati-has-not-abandoned-his-party-hikaumba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-16T20:43:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-16T21:01:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_10-62fc05afb3536.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mutati-has-not-abandoned-his-party-hikaumba#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mutati-has-not-abandoned-his-party-hikaumba\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"MUTATI HAS NOT ABANDONED HIS PARTY, HIKAUMBA\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-16T20:43:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-16T21:01:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mutati-has-not-abandoned-his-party-hikaumba\"},\"wordCount\":136,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mutati-has-not-abandoned-his-party-hikaumba#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_10-62fc05afb3536.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Featured\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mutati-has-not-abandoned-his-party-hikaumba#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mutati-has-not-abandoned-his-party-hikaumba\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mutati-has-not-abandoned-his-party-hikaumba\",\"name\":\"MUTATI HAS NOT ABANDONED HIS PARTY, HIKAUMBA - 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