THERE IS NO DIRECTION
…reveals Mourinho as he ditches PF
Lusaka, Wednesday, June 8, 2023 ( Smart Eagles)
After having fought battles for over five years for the party, Antonio Mourinho Mwanza, the Patriotic Front (PF) Media Director has announced his resignation which will be effective on the 30th of this month.
Addressing the media in Lusaka today, the seasoned politician also announced that he is parting ways with the party.
His resignation comes amid “lack of direction by the central committee.”
“After our loss in 2021, the Patriotic Front took a very important step by appointing a team that went countrywide to come up with a postmortem report. The report also gave detailed recommendations of what the Patriotic Front ought to do to in order to bounce back into power in 2026,” he said.
“One of the key issues was that the Patriotic Front must go to a general conference to elect a leader to take over from Edgar Lungu.”
He said the people who love PF are in limbo because the party leadership has failed to provide them with direction.
“It has failed to provide them with hope, it has failed to show them where we are going. Everyday people call me, everyday people come to the secretariat, everyday people as ba PF tuleya kwi? (where are we going?) when are we choosing our leader? Are we ever going to have a general conference? What is our hope?” he asked.
“Two years down the line, the leadership has failed to provide direction. The leadership has failed to give a clear roadmap when the party is going to hold a general conference and elect the president of the Patriotic Front to mobilise this party for 2026.”
Mr Mwanza said the late President Michael Sata gave an example every time he lost elections.
“He went back to the structures; he went back to the people. Our structures are in dilemma. They don’t know where to go. The membership of the party has been loyal to this party. I know the central committee; I have worked with the central committee in the last five years. The majority of the members of the central committee mean well for the party,” he said.
“But there is a small clique within that thinks that they can bulldoze and risk the contributions and sacrifice that people that worked with Michael Sata have sacrificed. The contributions and sacrifices of those that have been in the PF for 20 years and have not benefited anything but they continue to support this party. There is a small group that thinks they can bulldoze and delay the process to elect the next leader. Even those that mean well for the party are failing to come forward to help the party because a party without a leader can’t sell.”
Mourinho insisted that members of the party want to see a president elected.
He added that the members recognize that “we only have two years before the next election. Our members want to see a party with a president.”
The vocal vibrant politician said “having been part and parcel and worked for the central committee, as the person at the secretariat, I can say this with confidence that there is no commitment, there is no willingness, there is no desire, there is no dedication whatsoever from central committee to take this party to a general election.”
“The principle recommendation of the postmortem report, to take this party to a general conference has been hijacked by few people who don’t want to see this party go to a general election. You have heard some of the excuses they are giving, we don’t have money. It is the job of the central committee to mobilise the mobilise resources.”
He argued that there is no case in the high court or any court where the PF has been stopped from holding a general conference.
“This cannot be used as an excuse. Clearly, we have reached the crossroads. There is no intent, there is no commitment and there is no willingness for the general conference,” he said.
“Members have lost property, have lost jobs, have lost opportunities, our members have sacrificed everything yet there are some people who want to continue drawing us back. I don’t see a party without a president mobilizing itself for 2026. There is no direction.”
Stubbornness at it highest
Self centred criminal forced to resign…
Better late then never.
They have stopped funding him kikikikikikki
Too much qwarking for nothing
This same guy has no principals. He resigned from FDD to join PF just to eat from there. Just now you will hear he has joined upnd just to eat from there now because in PF the food is finished.
Zambian Politics are very predictable, Mongrel in behaviour and nomadic. A few weeks from now there will be a News Conference by the Socialist Party welcoming him and henceforth his Title will be Comrade Mourinho Antonio Mwanza. I could be wrong but mark my words. The Socialist Party needs another Noise Maker!
So in PF there were drugs and equipment in hospitals,jobs and good money for farmers? PF was a party for students and retirees?.Where was I during this time?
Instead of exiting quietly with a tail between his legs he has continued to our. Which marketeers want the PF back? To be brutalised by PF cadres? Doctors were scared to write prescriptions because they were under instruction to pretend the hospitals had medicines. Wgen is the Police following him up for his crimes? He threatened HH that after 2021 elections PF will put him back in jail and he will die in jail. Then scrutinise his bank accounts and whatever properties he acquired after joining PF. He must have received some of the dirty money
At marketers are missing PF criminals, Antonio mwanza stop misbehaving just resign silent don’t disturbing sleeping lions.
It’s a pity some people are still clinging to PF, when they know that it is taking them nowhere. It is like holding on to a dead Caracas until all the blood dries up and eventually you also died. Anyone in his rightful mind can see that there is nothing to stay for in PF, truly they have lost direction since they had no vision already. They have no time to mobilize the party because they are always preoccupied with bouncing back in 2026, each and every day that comes, the only thing they know is attacking HH who has so far outperformed them by far. They are now trying to use the Catholic Church to fight and remove him and his government but they will lamentably fail. I thank Mr. Mwanza for his bravery and boldness to speak his mind, indeed PF has lost direction, no party President, failed to rebrand, hold convention, so what next? Wish you well Mr. Mwanza in all your future indevours, I hope you will find somewhere to go or join, they say; in politics there are no permanent friends or enemies.
Mwanza is loud and pompous a fellow who thinks that he knows it all. The pf well has run dry. He is now crying wolf. UPND please don’t accept this principle less double edged man
Remember he had promised to dismember his private part if UPND & HH were to win the general election but he chickened out. A coward chimbwi wa manta!
Kikikikiki. They have stopped giving him money. I noticed his silence after the $400,000 cash safe keeping exposure. I think he was not privy to some of these transactions and he has realised he had been taken for a ride. He cannot now cry foul and claim he was fighting fir the good if this country. He was fighting for his pocket but now the funds are dwindling as the PF cartel realise he is no longer useful for their purposes; Nakachinda gas taken over his role and benefits.kiiikikiki
Ba UPND, donot touch this gentleman, Antonio Mwanza, with a ten meter pole.
Mr. Imenda, we don’t want to hear about “politics is a game of numbers”. Antonio’s god is his stomach. Totally lacking in principles. The brook has run dry.
This gentleman should never be allowed any peace for the damage he caused our country through his reckless and belligerent rants.
Let him go to the Socialist Party where the PF vultures are gathering.