The president’s move, the lawyers charged, will further counter both the spirit and letter of the Arusha Peace Accord that ended a decade of civil war in Burundi.Copies of the EALS letter have also been dispatched to the Chairman of the East African Community’s Heads of States Summit, President Jakaya Kikwete as well as the Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC), Dr Richard Sezibera.
Profesa Lipumba aligombea urais kwa mara ya kwanza mwaka 1995, wakati wa uchaguzi wa kwanza wa vyama vingi tangu siasa za ushindani kurejeshwa nchini mwaka 1992 na kushika nafasi ya tatu nyuma ya mgombea wa CCM, Benjamin Mkapa na wa NCCR-Mageuzi, Augustine Mrema (sasa yuko TLP), akiwa amechukua asilimia 6.43 ya kura zote.