Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) leader Nevers Mumba says the former ruling party will be a strong factor by 2021 after the court disposes off the leadership dispute with Felix Mutati.

And Mumba, who is also former vice-president, says his party is still financially stable and that those members of parliament who have left to join the Patriotic Front (PF) were not indispensable.

Several key MMD members have taken up Cabinet positions in the ruling PF among them Dora Siliya (Agriculture), Felix Mutati (Finance), Lucky Mulusa (National Planning), Vincent Mwale (Local Government) and Victoria Kalima (Gender). Others are Dennis Wanchinga (General Education), Margaret Mwanakatwe (Commerce) and Michael Katambo.

But speaking in an interview with News Diggers! Mumba said his party was doing “very well” and that the above names were not factors.

“Our case is in court and we are confident that within the next few months this thing will be disposed off and MMD will decide once they go to the convention to strengthen themselves in order to participate in the 2021 elections. We are focused and the problems we are facing are not unique, it happens in all the political parties and we have successfully fought this misbehavior by some of those people,” Mumba said.

“Right now, MMD has gone through the challenges and you know the genesis of these problems and who is responsible. No person holds a political party and that without them a political party wont exists, that doesn’t exist in the world. We are very confident that after this process MMD will reorganize itself and become a very strong factor again by 2021.”

Mumba however said his party was currently preoccupied with strengthening its Alliance partnership with the United Party for National Development (UPND) “in order to challenge the poor PF governance with a stronger voice”.

“We are still Alliance partners with UPND and we are going to do what we are supposed to do to make sure that we strengthen the opposition front. We are in partnership with the UPND and we will continue to put up a united front. So there is no need for any of us to dissolve themselves,” said Mumba when asked if was considering dissolving the MMD in order to form one party with UPND.