{"id":43909,"date":"2026-08-27T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43909"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:31:13","slug":"tanzanias-ruling-party-picks-new-candidate-for-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tanzanias-ruling-party-picks-new-candidate-for-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania&#8217;s ruling party picks new candidate for Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Tanzania&#8217;s ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party has picked the Energy Minister\u00a0as its nominee for the \u200bnew Vice President, the party&#8217;s Secretary General\u00a0said \u200clate on Wednesday, after the incumbent announced his resignation less than a year into the job.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Outgoing Vice President Emmanuel John Nchimbi will leave office \u200bon September 4, having served since last November.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His \u200bresignation followed criticism from some in the party for \u2060remarks about the constitution last month that they considered unnecessary.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The \u200bruling party&#8217;s National Executive Committee (NEC) has now picked Deogratius Ndejembi \u200bfor nomination as the next\u00a0Vice President, ruling party Secretary General\u00a0Asha-Rose Migiro told reporters.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>NEC &#8220;has unanimously approved that member to take the position of \u200bVice President. This will take place after completing the constitutional \u200bprocedures that require his name to be submitted to Parliament,&#8221; Migiro said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ndejembi \u200cwould \u2060be sworn in after he has been approved by parliament, she added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She said the ruling party had also decided to expel Nchimbi from the party &#8220;due to conduct that violated our regulations \u200bregarding discipline and \u200bethics&#8221;. She \u2060did not say what conduct violated the party&#8217;s rules.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last month Nchimbi urged Tanzanians to fight \u200bfor a new constitution, &#8220;a constitution that leads us \u200btoward development, \u2060not just material and economic development, but the development of dignity and the human worth of every person living in Tanzania,&#8221; \u2060he \u200bsaid.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>President Samia Suluhu Hassan won last \u200byear&#8217;s presidential election with nearly 98% of the vote, in an election marred \u200bby deadly<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43770,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-43909","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Outgoing Vice President Emmanuel John Nchimbi will leave office \u200bon September ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43910,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43909\/revisions\/43910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}