Court foils convention by the Chabinga-led PF group
MAFINGA member of parliament Robert Chabinga will remain an acting president for the Patriotic Front, as the Lusaka High Court has thwarted an elective general conference which was slated for tomorrow where his captaincy would have been sealed off with members voting in his favor.
Matero member of parliament Miles Sampa and PF president has obtained an ex-parte restraining order against Chabinga from supplanting him as the party president.
Sampa had asked the court to stop party secretary general Morgan Ng’ona from holding a convention.
He said he would be prejudiced if the illegal convention is held and subsequently he is replaced as the leader of the party.
Judge Conceptor Zulu granted the ex-party order of injunction sought by Sampa stopping the elective conference.
“It is hereby ordered and directed that the plaintiff Morgan Ng’ona, by himself, his servants, agents, or howsoever described, be and is hereby restrained from holding any elective meeting, including the Extraordinary General Conference/ any meeting of this sort scheduled for the 11th of August, 2024,” she ordered
Judge Zulu also directed that no party will be awarded costs and that the matter will be heard inter-parte on August 26.
In this case Ng’ona has sued Sampa for dismissing him as secretary general of the party and dissolving the central committee.
He is also challenging the removal of Chabinga as leader of the opposition in parliament
By Mwaka Ndawa
Kalemba August 9, 2024.
PF? I need help to understand categorically who the party leader for PF is between Edgar Chagwa Lungu and Miles Sampa? I read of PF factions and if this means the party has split itself into two and each of the two leading either PF1 or PF2
Its not split into mwana, its now 3 parties ok one.