MAGUFULI:Leadership within the CCM will be on merit and not the seize of one’s pocket.

Addressing hundreds of CCM members and the the general public who turned up to welcome the ruling party’s new National Chairman at the party’s sub-head office along Lumumba Street in Dar es Salaam yesterday, President Magufuli said under his chairmanship, CCM leaders will be elected in accordance with qualifications, particularly integrity.
Dr Magufuli has also resolved to ensure leadership within the CCM will be on merit and not the seize of one’s pocket.
“I will not let anyone within CCM buy leadership. I want those elections that are based on qualifications regardless of religion, tribe or gender of that particular person,” he explained, calling on everyone qualified to vie in the next year’s party elections to come out promising that money will not be exchanged for leaderships.

Dr Magufuli said CCM had lost direction and became a party for the rich, noting that getting leadership position for those without money was like a ‘camel going through the eye of a needle’, vowing to trample out such behaviour within the ruling party.

The president pledged his cooperation with CCM and the public in general to bring positive change in the country for the benefit of all Tanzanians regardless of their political party affiliation.

He expressed his happiness on the magnitude of people who turned out to receive him from the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) along Nyerere Road and at Lumumba Street party offices, promising that he will never let Tanzanians down in his resolve to take the nation into a middle income country.

As a ruling party, President Magufuli stressed that CCM is tasked with ruling the country, noting that each CCM leader in their different capacities must rule their areas and ensure public’s interests are addressed.

“CCM has tasked you with those responsibilities, be it MPs, councillors, village chairpersons or street leaders, after five years you will be measured in accordance with what you have done for the public,” he explained.