By Staff Reporter
Chishimba Kambwili chipuba, ruling UPND deputy secretary general Patrick Mucheleka has charged.
And Mucheleka said even if the results from Southern and Western provinces were to be removed, Edgar Lungu and PF were still going to lose the August 12, 2021 general elections, going by the one million vote margin.
Reacting to PF presidential aspirant Kambwili’s statement to Daily Revelation that Zambians must start voting regionally as a way of countering the regional voting from other areas, to teach such people a lesson, Mucheleka said it shows how the former ruling PF has sunk that a person who could utter such “disgusting” words is among the favourites to take over as president.
“Chipuba Chilya (that one is a fool). Can a normal person be saying such things? Zambia is a unitary State, and it just shows that he has completely run out of ideas. Ni chumbu munshololwa ulya, alikowela,” Mucheleka said. “It just shows how finished PF is. How can people in a normal party consider Kambwili to even become president? One of the things Zambians said no to was regionalism. That is why HH is talking about uniting Zambia…riding on the founding father’s legacy”
But asked on Kambwili’s statement that the mayor for Kafue Buumba Malambo urged people in that area to vote for a Tonga mayor, Tonga MP, Tonga councilors and Tonga President yet no one was talking about that, but instead were calling for his arrest, Mucheleka claimed that Kambwili was trying to put words in the mayor’s mouth.
He said Kafue was a melting point of people from across the county, which somehow was even an extension of Lusaka, where promotion of one’s tribe could not work as Kambwili was asserting.
Mucheleka said Kambwili had lost relevance in the country, and would only sink the PF further if elected as their president.
He said even if all the results from Southern Province and by extension Western were removed, President Lungu was still going to lose, as the rejection of the former ruling party was countrywide.
“Because even in Northern Province where some traditional leaders were championing tribalism, and particularly against the UPND and the Tonga people, the people there rejected tribalists,” Mucheleka said, referring to the overwhelming improvement in votes towards the UPND, where they even won several seats including Kaputa, Senga-Hill, Mbala and Mpulungu. “That’s why youths said no to politics of hate.”
Mucheleka bemoaned that Kambwili was always looking at things from the prism of tribe, saying that was the more reason PF lost.
“If PF wants to sink further than they have sunk, Kambwili is helping them sink further,” said Mucheleka, when asked on Kambwili’s observation that the tribal balancing in Cabinet was cosmetic, looking at which provinces have gotten the most powerful ministries, which he said drive the county.
