NDC leader Saboi Imboela says she will contest the forthcoming elections alone but her focus is not on winning the presidency, but on securing parliamentary representation nationwide. She says the party’s central committee has resolved that NDC must appear independently on the ballot as progress under the United Kwacha Alliance (UKA) has been halted. In a recent interview, Imboela said while NDC previously backed alliance candidates without contesting, it would now stand on its own. “Because of proportional representation and everything, the central committee of the NDC decided that NDC has to be on the ballot. So, even in the alliance it was a matter of saying we don’t necessarily need to stand, we may endorse other people and things...

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