President Samia won praise for mitigating her predecessor s authoritarianism, but his loyalists are on the march again and she is accommodating them, The outspoken Paul Makonda, who has just been appointed to a key ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) post, is fast emerging as the leader of a new dawn for resurgent loyalists of the late bulldozer President John Magufuli and the Lake Zone regions, especially Geita and Mwanza, from which they hail.