Dodoma. After several weeks of anxiety, the wait is over.
Several prominent CCM party cadres were today left out of the list of aspirants to fly the party’s flag at the October 28 polls; they include Members of Parliament and cabinet ministers.
The party’s National Executive committee sitting in Dodoma left out Minister for Information Dr Harrison Mwakyembe and Minister for Investment Angela Kairuki in the nomination list.
Others also missing on the list include former MPs Juma Nkamia, William Ngeleja, Kangi Lugola and former Attorney General Andrew Chenge among others.
For those who have been dropped this could mean the end of their political careers in the ruling party where they have served for more than two decades.
From the selection, it was never a guarantee that winning the primaries was enough to carry one through, in some constituencies those who emerged fourth were selected as flag bearers like John Salu who took the day in Handeni Tanga.
In Dar es Salaam there were more new faces that got the nod they evangelist Josephat Gwajima (Kawe), Dr Faustine Ndungulile (Kigamboni), Abbas Gullam Tarimba (Kinondoni), Prof Kitila Mkumbo (Ubungo), Zungu Azan Musa (Ilala), Bona Kamoli (Segerea), Jerry Slaa (Ukonga) , Dorothy Kilave (Temeke) and Abdallah Jafari Chaurembo (Mbagala).
One most notable omission in Polepole’s list was former Dar es Salaam Regional commissioner Paul Makonda who was seeking nomination to vie for the Kigamboni constituency.
