“YOU IDIOTS, GO BACK TO PF”
The Candidates’ Comment
Yesterday, Charmaine Mehl Musonda and Charity Chanda Lumpa went to the United Party for National Development (UPND) to officially join the ruling party from the Patriotic Front (PF).
The defection of these two was not received with both hands by many ordinary members of the ruling party. When these ordinary members of UPND heard that Charmaine and Charity were going to defect, they mobilized themselves and rushed to their Secretariat in order to stop the procession. But being ordinary members as they are, these people could not manage to achieve their agenda. The UPND Secretary General as well as other senior officials of the ruling party forced down on the throat of these ordinary members the defection of Charmaine and Charity. Throughout the speech of Charity, UPND members hurled insults and said “you idiots go back to PF”.
Of course these ordinary members of the UPND have every right to call Charmaine and Charity idiots. How else can you address elements that have no morals?
Everyone who is rational and honest with themselves will agree that these ordinary members of the ruling party have every right to reject political prostitutes like Charmaine and Charity. What are they taking to UPND, now that it is in power, which they could not take when it was in opposition?
If UPND lost the August elections, was Charmaine and Charity going to defect, to join them? Where they going to leave the PF for UPND? These are very important questions that need to be answered by the leadership in the ruling party. Of course we know that those two political prostitutes have defected to UPND because they are opportunists, ba muselela kwakaba. These are elements that have difficulties with being in opposition. If – God forbid – there was an election today due to unforeseen circumstances and UPND lost that election to any party, those opportunists can without doubt migrate to the new ruling party.
This is so because these vultures, opportunists have no sense of shame and scruples. What drives them to do anything is their inherent opportunism. They are elements who believe in nothing but their personal good and comfort. As such, it is that need to gratify what is pleasurable to them that drives them to do certain things, however stupid and unprincipled they may appear.
What is it that UPND will really benefit from unprincipled and political prostitutes like Charmaine and Charity? If UPND does not admit those opportunists, will it be worse off than they would be without them?
The rage expressed by many ordinary UPND members against the defection of political prostitutes of all sorts is justifiable. Many of these ordinary members of the ruling party have been with UPND for a very long time and have sacrificed a lot. They endured a lot during the time that these opportunists where busy enjoying at the table of corruption of the previous administration.
Charity cannot claim to have seen the good of UPND now that this party is in power. When did she start seeing that UPND and its leadership were good? Charmaine cannot claim that UPND is a good party. When did she begin to view it in such a way when, not very long ago, she left this party and denounced it?
Our advice to UPND and its leadership is that, it may look very fashionable to accept and admit these political prostitutes but the majority Zambians will not support this. Zambians wanted change and that change comes with change of faces like the same political prostitutes you are today giving prominence.
To UPND general and ordinary members, the victory is yours and the party belongs to you. Do not allow those political prostitutes to take away that entitlement.