After January 12, PF will go to convention under whatever umbrella – Lubinda
PF FACTION president Given Lubinda says the former ruling party will proceed to hold its convention immediately after January 12, 2026, once two legal matters standing in the way are dealt with.
Speaking during a press briefing yesterday, Lubinda said the Patriotic Front is currently tied down by two court matters but made it clear that these will not stop the party from going to the convention.
He explained that the two legal issues are scheduled to be attended to on January 9 and January 12, 2026, after which the PF will have no excuse to delay the long-awaited convention.
“After the matters are attended to on 9th and 12th of January 2026, the party will have to go to the convention under whatever umbrella it shall choose,” he stated.
Lubinda warned party members and the public not to doubt the PF’s resolve, insisting that the convention will take place very soon after January 12.
“Make no mistake, very, very soon after 12th January 2026, members of the movement that was created by Michael Chinufya Sata and left to us by Edgar Chagwa Lungu shall hold the convention to elect its third president and its central committee,” Lubinda said.
He stressed that the convention is not optional but a constitutional requirement that must be fulfilled to give the party legitimate leadership going into the 2026 General Election.
Lubinda said the PF belongs to its members and not to court processes or individuals trying to delay internal democracy for their own benefit.
The PF has been rocked by internal divisions and leadership disputes since losing power in 2021, with multiple factions claiming legitimacy.
PF’s legally recognised president Robert Chabinga obtained a court injunction restraining the Lubinda-led faction from holding a convention, arguing that only the legally recognised office bearers have the authority to convene such a meeting.
The matter has since been dragged through the courts, with hearings scheduled for January 9 and January 12, dates which Lubinda said will clear the way for the convention.
By George Musonda
Kalemba January 1, 2025
The peoblem to us is PF. Just being the PF it connots of a project whose main milestones is 1. Take over power
2. Put a Bemba govt in place
3. Restore caderism
4. Place cadres in Markets
5. Place cadres in bus stops
6. Harrass pipo everywhere
7. Loot and plunder national resources
8. Beat up, kill opposition members
9. Remove burseries
10. Send only their tribemates to schools abroad
11. Run down the economy
12. Borrow heavily.
13. Etc etc.
Yes you need the convention but to us, your convention is merely part of the process toward achieving the above milestones.
Mbuti ooko bo Lubinda?
You are a hardcore Tribalist.
What have the Bemba speaking people done to you to harbor such hatred?
Tribalists are everywhere. No region is spared.
PF should go to their convention under PF and not in a “mask” pretending to be sanctimonious
(making a show of being morally superior to other people.)
Unless PF faces its own self created demons. What they project is a “charades”. The kind they have perpetrated since they came into power regardless of who was at the helm. They played the heartstrings of Zambians and run down the country with words.
Zambia needs better. It has done better since 2021. But those who step and want to call themselves leaders need to have the courage to lead by truth and integrity. To stear the country in the right trijectory and not take us for fools with unsustainable waffling. Its an insult to suggest what you know will be a short term “feel good policy” which mires us in the soot that we have always found ourselves in. Just to that you can sit at the helm and gloat when you know you are incapable of leading the nation to “anywhere”.
We need morally upright figures not degenerates….so looking into your souls and see if you are worthy. If not respectly tender your resignation before your wretched souls are exposed for all to see….the disgust you carry below your skin.
Fight harder sir
Under the umbrella of defiance of the rule of law.
These chaps have been characteristically lawless. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change.
Lubinda is behaving as if he was not a justice minister at once, he knows that chabinga is the owner of pf party currently and even the court knows now he is busy trying to hold a conversion in the name of pf which is not his,that is content and trespassing of the highest, if he continues with his dullness then these battles will go beyond 2050.