By Isaac Zulu
Immediate past Chitambo district commissioner Jeliaty Ntembwa says the Socialist Party will take public power in the 2026 general elections.
Speaking with Daily Revelation, Ntembwa who was PF central province’ youth chairman but defected to join SP said that the PF will never bounce back to power, as long as it goes with the same top leadership ahead of the 2026 general elections.
He said the current Patriot Front leadership has lost political leadership, saying that “the Socialist Party leadership has shown political muscle and is likely to take political power in 2026.”
Asked on what made him to defect from the then ruling PF, Ntembwa, who also contested the Muchinga Constituency in a Parliamentary by-election in 2012; following the demise of former vice-president George Kunda, said that from the local government by-elections that the country has conducted so far, the Socialist Party appears to have started commanding some “political ground on the political scene.”
“The current Patriot Front leadership is not inspiring. We need to move in tandem with current political trends. And the Socialist Party, led by Comrade Dr Fred M’membe; has been making strides politically. This can be attested by the outcomes that have been coming from the local government by-elections that the Socialist Party has been recording during its particitipation in local government by-elections,” Ntembwa said. The growing popularity by the Socialist Party in Central Province is not fictional, but real.”
Ntembwa also said that it irrational for the UPND administration to continue commissioning projects that were initiated by the previous administration without giving credit to the Patriot Front government.
“Most of the capital projects that the UPND administration is talking about, which includes the Cassava Milling Plant in Chitambo district, were initiated by the Patriot Front government; and yet the current UNPD administration wants to take advantage and political leadership, above all others,” said Ntembwa.
