Zitto set to be made topmost leader of ACT

Dar es Salaam. A new political party associated with former Kigoma North MP Zitto Kabwe is preparing to make him its topmost leader ahead of the grand launch in Dar es Salaam tomorrow.  The Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT) executive committee yesterday released a lineup of  party official positions with the addition of the party leader position that did not exist before Kabwe, who left Chadema joined it.

The committee meeting held in Dar es Salaam was to endorse changes in the party’s constitution to accommodate the new position. The meeting was also to plan for tomorrow’s official launch and various regional and international figures have been invited.     

The final line-up of the leadership positions for ACT will be unveiled later today, with sources telling The Citizen on Saturday that Kabwe is likely to be named the party leader. The vacancy had not attracted any other candidate and according to ACT, the one named in this position would be the one mandated to run for the presidency on behalf of the party whenever appropriate. Other positions are the party’s national chairman, two vice chairmen for mainland and Zanzibar, executive secretary, 12 members of the central committee and 21 members of the national executive committee.

Interim secretary Samson Mwigamba was by last evening the only candidate for the same position, while Estomihi Mallah and Anna Mahwira will run for the national chair. The position of deputy chairman had attracted three candidates namely Shaaban Mambo, Ramadhan Sulieman Ramadhan and Hamad Yusuph.

Some 12 candidates had returned forms for the central committee and 21 for the national executive committee, and would assumedly be named as the first office bearers.