ConCourt was expected to nullify 2021 general election after realising its mistake – Nakacinda
PF FACTION secretary general Raphael Nakacinda has revealed that his boss, former President Edgar Lungu will challenge the Constitutional Court’s ruling on his eligibility case as he will soon file a petition to the court.
Yesterday, the Constitutional Court ruled that Lungu was not eligible to contest for presidency in the future as he was sworn in twice to serve as president.
Lungu later issued a statement, accepting the verdict but disclosed that the Tuesday judgement on his eligibility case triggered his plan B which he set in motion.
People are now left wondering what the former Head of State has up his sleeves with the plan B he set in motion.
Despite the court making it clear that it erred to allow Lungu to stand in 2021, Nakacinda still insisted that if the same court previously ruled that the former President was eligible in 2021, then it means he is eligible in 2026.
He shared that Lungu had already directed his lawyers, Makebi Zulu Advocates and Ellis and Company to pursue the challenge claiming that the court grossly misdirected itself.
“President Lungu has stated that there being no provision for the Constitutional Court to revisit its own decisions in the Constitution as is provided for in relation to the Supreme Court, the decision to revisit the decision remains unconstitutional as it provided that the Constitutional Court is bound by its own decisions,” Nakacinda stated.
The PF now claims that the Constitutional Court was expected to nullify the 2021 general election after realising its mistake.
“We have expressed deep concerns regarding the independence and autonomy of the Judiciary and as shown by the events leading to this matter and its eventual judgment, the status of the Judiciary remains our primary concern,” he stated.
“It is simple. If he was eligible to have participated in the 2021 presidential elections, he would definitely be eligible to participate in the 2026 elections.”..https://kalemba.news/politics/2024/12/11/concourt-was-expected-to-nullify-2021-general-election-after-realising-its-mistake-nakacinda/
By Catherine Pule
Kalemba, December 11, 2024
Nakachinda must be very careful, otherwise, you will end disappearing in exile. if not going soon to prison
Now there is no president left to manipulate you Satan. You jumped from MMD, to Sata’s PF to Lungu’s PF now there is no platform left to jump to. The LORD has finally caught up with you. A cow chase Lion situation has arrived. It will be interesting to see where you will go now.
Raphael Nakacinda, please understand that courts of law take into account many issues whdn they’re passing judgements. One such issue is the public interest. Michelo Chizombe’s personal interest was weighed against the public interest and the court allowed public interest to prevail by dismissing the pleading to establish if Edgar Lungu was eligible to contest the 2021 presidential election. The court has allowed the past to remain in the past but has decided to influence the future instead by barring Edgar Lungu from all future presidential elections. The court did not want to burden the public with a presidential election and a constitutional crisis due to a mistake in judicial interpretation. The judgement has cited a number of authorities to buttress its conclusion and will no doubt be cited for years to come.
Well spoken. Zambia is bigger that a few individuals.
These people had a God given chance to rule Zambia. Unfortunately they spoiled it on their own due to poor leadership. So Let it go fellow colleagues. This thing will consume you if you are not careful. Take a seat back and consider your ways.
The way you manipulated the Judicial processes during your tenure is so plain for all to see. It’s pointless and ridiculous to pretend you were right in your actions.
Those who can not learn from their mistakes are doomed to fall right back into their mistakes and will suffer more pain and cause the innocent to participate in their short sightedness.
It’s time to do the right and not being arrogant.
Very well articulated.
Unfortunately, Nakachinda and a few others including ECL himself are unable to pay attention to anything.
Its time we rose above these misguided and selfish people, abena Emma, nakachind, lubinda and lungu.
Selfish and very misleading. Mxxxm, ABA ebafyashi abapuba tulaneapo
Zambia used to have brains like bena Munu Sipalo,now we are left with people like Sen,Mate,Peace Embassy,Gunner in Zambia,Aikona man etc,God save us from the Planet of the Apes!!!
The only ape is you who suggest and lives off selfcenter and ego driven motive.
Funny that out of the comments yours is the only outliner. Why? You think you are wiser?
Move away from your myopic way of looking at issues and be objective. People like you speak from your stomach because beyond PF you will starve so make unfeasible statements just that reason
Nakachinda, you have failed to let us know that what Lungu did with the 2 constitutions were illegal as he had no mandate, no referendum and didn’t constitute any constitutional committes on the enaction of a new constitution and doing away with the old one. He also appointed a ConCourt that was not required and had no functions and put it on top all the other courts without any guidelines of what the other courts were going to be doing or a constitutional framework, but just to rule in his favour. He fractured the justice system and brought in cadres to cause mayhem to rule forever like he did in Kabwe. Lungu’s aim for changes with constitution were meant to confuse and ensure his own self picked ConCourt judges didn’t disagree with him with the addition of Lungu’s intimidation of ConCourt judges by his own teams Pule and others. Those were not rulings but PF hidden pronouncements by deception. If you can address all these.
The point(s) Nakachinda is raising were equally addressed by the constitutional court in the judgment, yesterday, and we all heard the pronouncements. Nakachinda and Edga’s group are just insolvent and unashamedly uncouth and demon possessed.
Nakachinda, you are just a CHIKALA like satan nyoko LUNGU
You are all finished and your rotten balls have been grated by the Con Courts.
Go home and be ready to face beatings in the street you damn effers
Can we have Nakachinda, Lubinda and Mwamba rounded up!
These are a nuisance to our country’s peace.
Arrest them! They are stinking dirty manners by over looking the very clean judgement.
That’s why it was televised live to avoid Zambians being misled by Nakachinda.
Misleading the public deliberately is a criminal offense. The same constitutional court revisited the case where former cabinet ministers were meant to refund the state after illegally over staying. As usual, ECL mislead them. That was under ECL regime!
An indictment is a formal accusation in a criminal case against someone suspected of committing a serious criminal offense. A grand jury issues an indictment after reviewing evidence and determining there was probable cause a crime was committed. After the grand jury investigation and indictment, formal charges follow.
What is more serious than misleading the public?
Mr. Nakachinda’s desparation is truly amazing. The three months he served as Minister in Mr. Lungu’s government before parliament was dissolved in 2021 left a deep yearning in him for the easy life.
Well, Mr. Nakachinda, that life is gone never to come back. Pick up the broken pieces and move on or you will be left behind never to catch up. Your Mr. Lungu is history. No point in trying to wake a corpse.
PF deliberately packed the constitutional court and the Judiciary in general with their cadres, hence the controversies that have plagued constitutional court rulings. It is good that this grave mistake has been corrected. Time to move on and attend to more pressing matters instead of focusing on one individual’s political fortunes.