FORMER health minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya has abandoned his presidential ambitions, and opted to contest as an independent candiate in the newly created Mansa West constituency. Dr Chilufya paid the required K100,000 presidential nomination fee and was scheduled to file for presidency under the Miles Sampa led-Patriotic Front, but later withdrew from the contest, as the former ruling party was still entangled in legal battles with the Robert Chabinga faction. And last week, Miles Sampa who has filed in to contest for Lima constituency, announced that the PF would not field in any presidential candidate in the August polls. Meanwhile, Chabinga successfully filed to stand in the newly created Mafinga South Constituency under the UPND. On the other hand, former...