On Friday President Michael Sata indirectly congratulated Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba for sustaining the fight between him and his ministry of defence counter part Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM).
When the president returned from South Korea on Friday, he went to greet Kabimba and Kabimba how he was faring in the power fight with GBM.
He asked him how the fight between the two was going and wondered why GBM was not at the airport to welcome him.
But ceremonial Vice President Scott, blocked the excited Kabimba from responding to the president publicly and instead offered to brief the president one he gets to State House.
GBM shunned Sata’s return on Friday while the government-loyal Post Newspaper continued its negative publicity onslaught against the defence minister.
GBM has been sidelined from other similar government activities in the recent past, but his supporters in Kasama where he is area member of parliament have warned him against stepping down.
Yesterday the supporters protested at The Post newspaper provincial office and threatened to burn down the office equipment if the workers there did not withdraw the newspaper from the street which carried a negative story of GBM.