Kasebamashila Kaseba
HOW EL SHALL REPRESENT AU, ZAMBIA AND PF AT KENYA ELECTIONS
— EL dilemma of being former Zambian and current PF presidents when, by law, he cannot be both —
While sixth president and PF president ELreported invitation by African Union to observe Kenyan elections next year is appreciable, it doesn’t change his legacy from a corrupt dictator to beloved democrat.
EL contested three parliamentary elections in Chawama during MMD as an independent (1996) and twice as PF candidate (2001 and 2011).
EL twice (2014, 2021) conducted and contested and won unopposed the PF Presidency at PF General Conference.
He has thrice (2015, 2016, 2021) contested ECZ Presidential elections. The third being unconstitutional third term bid.
Apart from the elections he only contested, the elections EL conducted and contested and won or lost were neither free nor fair nor credible nor transparent.
The three elections are among the most shambolic elections of the nine since 1991.
The only democratic thing EL ever did was to concede election defeat and handover power.
EL did not just lower the democratic credentials but also lowered the presidency.
He lowered democracy to a mobocracy, that is, rule of the mob; militarised and politicised police for politics of the police state as well as militarised and radicalised the PF party cadres.
EL lowered the Republican Presidency to the PF party Presidency just as he lowered citizenship to cadreship.
EL and HH who lived in Lusaka and in 2016 in same neighborhood in 2021 could not share a province during election campaigns.
EL had campaigned throughout in abuse of the presidency.
To this point, when he long lost republican presidency, that qualified to the AU Kenya observation mission or African statemanship, he cannot relinquish the PF Party Presidency, that cost him the presidency and disqualifies him from the Kenyan and other assignments.
Further, the PF presidency makes him answerable for PF and EL 2021 election campaign funding
In short, by law, ELas an active partisan politician cannot travel to Kenya to represent AU, Zambia and PF itself.
(He might end up panicking like FAZ Patron HH who appointed and swore in Cabinet when Chipolopolo was playing and losing its home fixture of the FIFA Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifier or held a debut press conference when female Chipolopolo were involved and lost in COSAFA tournament.)
Therefore, let EL decide in good time whether or not he will serve Africa, Zambia or PF.
EL has no future but a past with PF and Zambia.
He may need to reconcile himself with Zambians to forget his dictatorship than attempt to launder himself as a African dictator who failed a third term bid.
For example, EL contesting 2026 elections as opposition would be more humiliated than Sean Tembo and Andyford Banda.
Now, what does he want with active politics of PF presidency?
EL’s rehabilitation, even from this assignment is to first relinquish the PF Party presidency by recognising and conceding he hurt citizens with his dictatorship.
Try to teach that to Uhuru Kenyatta and other African active or retired leaders.