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Chama Cha Mapinduzi Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro announced the expulsion of Emmanuel Nchimbi and the nomination of his successor after an emergency session of the party’s Central Committee and National Executive Committee in Dar es Salaam that President Samia Suluhu Hassan chaired. Migiro told reporters that the committees reviewed disciplinary and ethical issues involving Nchimbi who also sat on the Central Committee and determined that he had violated the Chama Cha Mapinduzi constitution and its regulations. The National Executive Committee unanimously resolved to remove him from the party with Migiro stating that Nchimbi was no longer a member effective immediately. The party then endorsed Deogratius Ndejembi the serving Energy Minister and Member of Parliament for Chamwino as its nominee for vice president with his name to be submitted to parliament for approval under constitutional procedures.
Nchimbi who turned 54 this year submitted his resignation to President Samia Suluhu Hassan on August 25 with the move set to take effect on September 4 less than a year after he assumed the vice presidency in November 2025. In his statement Nchimbi said he was honouring a personal pledge made to the president in August 2025 that he would step aside if she sought a change adding that he intended to retire from both politics and public service. He had previously served as Chama Cha Mapinduzi Secretary-General before joining the ticket as her running mate for the October 2025 general election according to multiple reports including those from Reuters.
The decision to expel Nchimbi followed his public remarks last month in which he urged Tanzanians to fight for a new constitution one that would advance not only material development but also dignity and human worth for every citizen Reuters reported. Migiro did not detail the specific conduct that led to the disciplinary action beyond citing violations of party rules on discipline and ethics. Nchimbi’s departure marks the first time a vice president has resigned in the country’s history according to accounts compiled by The Citizen newspaper.
Chama Cha Mapinduzi which has governed Tanzania without interruption since its formation in 1977 secured another dominant victory in the October 2025 presidential election when Samia Suluhu Hassan and Nchimbi captured 97.66 percent of the vote Wikipedia’s entry on the poll drawing from official results states. The opposition Chadema party was barred from participating by electoral authorities prompting protests that led to a security crackdown with at least hundreds of deaths reported according to an Associated Press dispatch citing foreign diplomats from the United Kingdom Canada and Norway. The African Union observer mission concluded that the vote did not meet regional standards amid reports of irregularities and an internet shutdown.
Ndejembi at 43 represents a younger cohort within the ruling party and previously held the energy portfolio where he focused on strengthening the mining sector to serve East and Central Africa according to his official biography. Parliament must still approve his nomination before he can be sworn in as vice president a process that CCM officials described as the next constitutional step. The swift transition comes as the party maintains its long-standing supermajority in the National Assembly where it holds 383 of 403 seats following the 2025 polls data from the election summary shows.
Emmanuel Nchimbi rose through the ranks of the party’s youth wing and earlier held positions including Minister of Home Affairs between 2012 and 2013 as well as Member of Parliament for Songea Town from 2010 to 2015 his Wikipedia profile records. The developments have drawn attention to internal dynamics within Chama Cha Mapinduzi which has won every multiparty election since 1995 often with large margins according to historical tallies maintained by the party. President Samia Suluhu Hassan who assumed office in 2021 after the death of John Magufuli continues to lead both the country and the ruling party through this latest transition.
