FORMER President of Zambia Rupiah Banda is the guest speaker at a two-day seminar on presidential election run-offs starting this morning in Nairobi. Banda lost power to the current President Michael Sata in September 2011 after serving for only one term. He lost by about 200,000 votes. He had trounced Sata by just 35,000 votes in the 2008 run-off triggered by death of President Levy Mwanawasa. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chair Issack Ahmed is slated to brief participants on the commission's readiness to conduct a presidential run-off...
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