In the run up to Zambia's elections on Thursday October 30th, the BBC's Chakuchanya Harawa asks three of the presidential candidates why each one believes that he should be in the top job.
Acting-president, Rupiah Banda is the candidate of the governing Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD). He was persuaded out of retirement by former leader, Levy Mwanawasa, and became vice-president in 2006.
The leader of the opposition Patriotic Front (PF) Michael Sata is expected to put in a strong challenge having narrowly lost out to Levy Mwanawasa at the elections two years ago.
Although it is his second bid for the Zambian presidency, business tycoon Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) is a relative newcomer to the political scene.
