Ex-Mwanawasa VP recalled from China

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

NDOLA: One-time vice-president to late president Levy Mwanawasa, Lupando Mwape, has been recalled from China where he was sent on a diplomatic mission after the opposition Patriotic Front (PF) captured his parliamentary seat in 2006.

If Mwape had retained the seat in Lukashya Constituency in Kasama, Northern Province, he would probably have been the sitting vice president when Mwanawasa died after suffering a stroke last year. It was also likely that he would have become Zambia 's next president.

But after Mwape lost the parliamentary election, Mwanawasa sent him to China as a diplomat, saying he was loyal to him and the party.

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