Chadema chairman Freeman Mbowe and Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu at State House in Dar es Salaam on March 4 during their second face-to-face meeting. PHOTO | AFP
Questions had been raised over timing of the Chadema leader’s second private chat with President Samia on the eve of his party’s first General Assembly in two years.
They met for the first time on March 4, the same day prosecutors dropped terrorism charges against Mr Mbowe after a drawn-out trial during which he and his three co-accused had spent eight months in detention.