Dividing more constituencies in UPND strongholds won’t help as voter numbers remain the same – Mumbi
By Mubanga Mubanga
Former PF deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri says even if the UPND government chooses to delimitate more constituencies in their strongholds, it is not going to change anything as the numbers will remain the same.
And Phiri said President Hakainde Hichilema was incapable of being advised because he was a ‘Mr know it all.’
In an interview with Daily Revelation yesterday, Phiri said Lusaka and Copperbelt Provinces where there were many voters were grappling with loadshedding, no drugs
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Pre-independence error groupings are emerging from the opposition in today’s political debates. Why refer to other people as from the Zambezi region and others as the Chambeshi region? Are still one Zambia one nation. Where are we heading to? Here it has been put in a different context but earlier their was mentioning of tribal combinations as a formula of winning elections. That combination failed in 2021. It was not a winning formula in 2016. It is not about the tribe. It is about what you are offering to the people of Zambia. Where has the One Zambia One Nation motto gone? Politicians should start relooking at your statements before you reck our country.
There is no stronghold for anyone in the country now, two third or the whole country can be anyone’s stronghold. We should stop living in the past glory. Imwe ba PF, in your fragmented state, which province can you claim to be your stronghold? Voters vote for people and not party names. In 2021, HH won all the Copperbelt seats except Kabushi iyali yaba Lusambo. So there is nothing PF can boast of there.
Gerrymandering is not the ultimate goal for delimitation. It is development to spread the CDF with a thick coat of development. Swing provinces are Copperbelt and Lusaka. Let us wait to see the outcome of the by-election in Chawama in Lusaka. It maybe be replicated in the general elections next year