PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has submitted to the Constitutional Court that his nomination as Presidential candidate is valid, and has further asked that the petition against him be dismissed with costs. President Lungu has also argued that the challenging of his nomination as presidential candidate on grounds that article 106(3) of the constitution was breached, is misconceived, untenable and an abuse of the process of the Court. Meanwhile, Attorney General Likando Kalaluka has argued that there was no contravention of the Constitution in the nomination of President Lungu to contest as President in the forthcoming elections. This is a matter in which Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa and Chapter One Foundation have petitioned the Constitutional Court over the nomination of President Lungu as...

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