Did the objectors raise an objection of campaigning before the election? He went on a marathon tour right before the nomination can this also be an issue?
Or was this an advantage of incumbency as once declared by his CCM secretary General?
Are they not laundering in political wilderness always short of cash needed to oil their electability albeit their paths to incognito might be diammetrically opposite!
Not clutching the scepters of power it is difficult to imagine what attracted Lipumba objections beyond offences of omissions or commissions in the forms he had filled and submitted to the NEC
Sometimes being a perennial presidential candidate comes with that baggage of "all too knowing" which may lead filling the forms as business is usual knowing too well, after all, objections to presidential bids aren't not only unheard-of but a pariah consideration...