I’m ready to lead Tonse – Mundubile

I’M READY TO BE TONSE ALLIANCE’S 2026 CANDIDATE – MUNDUBILE.

MPOROKOSO PF member of parliament Brian Mundubile says he is available and ready to stand as Tonse Alliance presidential candidate in 2026.
And Mundubile says opposition political parties should form a durable alliance which will manage to get UPND out of office.

Speaking when he featured on Mafken FM, Sunday Mundubile said he was ready to serve Tonse Alliance as its president and later, to lead the country.

“I have seen a number of posts, especially on social media but like I said, I am listening to the people and the very fact that in the beginning, when a call was made, I had accepted, I am definitely available should Tonse [Alliance] come up with my name as a preferred candidate, I stand ready to serve the alliance and later to serve the nation,” he said.

And Mundubile said there was need for opposition political parties to form durable alliances which would manage to get UPND out of office.

“If you look at the performance of the opposition political parties in the recent by-elections, you will realise that the vote going to the opposition is actually more than the vote that is going to the ruling party. So, if at all we are going to remove the UPND from power, which in my view is very urgent, as many Zambians know that the UPND has lamentably failed, they have not fulfilled their promises as they have been promising over the 23 years in opposition. So, to save Zambia from the hardships, the high poverty levels, the opposition political parties must come together. So, the call by president Edgar Lungu and the call by the comrade, Fred M’membe, is timely,” he said.

“The opposition political parties need to understand one thing; they need to understand that there can only be one president at any given time. But they must also understand the greater call from the Zambian people. The greater call from the Zambians baleti alatwachula tutuleni (they are saying we have suffered, deliver us). Many Zambians are going without food every day. Look at how many people are dying in hospitals because of bad policies. The UPND government would prioritise the export of power at the expense of dying patients in hospitals. They would prioritise export of maize at the expense of the many hungry Zambians. Look at the levels of corruption in the UPND government, it is unprecedented. The levels of corruption as reported from the FIC Report are unprecedented. Previously, the higher figure we got in the FIC relating to suspicious transactions was K2 billion.

The three years the UPND has been in power, there’s been K61 billion, there’s been US$2.8 billion, there’s been K3.5 billion, there’s been K5.8 billion. So, this is not a government anyone would want to continue beyond 2026. Now, to be able to do that, the opposition political parties, they need to come together and form durable alliances that will see the UPND out of power, that will serve the vast interests of the Zambian people”.

Meanwhile, Mundubile said PF had failed to resolve their internal wrangles because UPND was sponsoring the confusion.

“In-house challenges are resolved through dialogue but the in-house challenges of the PF have been unique because they have not necessarily been differences within ourselves. These have been sponsored differences by the UPND government and that’s why it has been very difficult to resolve them. If you look at the relationships we enjoy, Miles Sampa is my childhood friend, we went to the same University, we talk every other day. All these other people, people like [Robert] Chabinga are people I didn’t know, I met them much later in life so I may not say much about him. We would have been able to sit down and resolve these differences if there was no invisible hand,” he said.

“Now, because of the invisible hand that has been working late in the night, changing names at Registrar of Societies, organising conferences in the middle of the night, acting outside the Patriotic Front constitution, that’s the reason why the issue to do with PF has been very difficult because it’s a sponsored programme by the UPND. So, going forward, I think that as members of the alliance, we are now focused on the broader picture of serving the country. You can imagine what sort of leaders we’ll we be. We have wasted three years fighting while people are dying with hunger”.

Mundubile said former president Edgar Lungu took a bold step by engaging other political parties in a bid to find ways to help the country.

“So, president Edgar Chagwa Lungu decided to take a bold step. He took a bold step, that focusing on fights in the party when we know UPND has sponsored these programmes, can we call other political parties and see how we can help the country. I think that in terms of priorities, I would give priority towards serving the greater majority of the Zambian people than focusing on these challenges, the conflicts that are happening within the party. We would allocate a small percentage in terms of time and focus most of the time on resolving the challenges the Zambian people are facing,” he said.

Asked whether he was prepared to face Law Enforcement Agencies due to his growing popularity, Mundubile replied in the affirmative.

“I saw that post from comrade Fred (M’membe). I say to myself that we’ll wait and see because I think it’s been three years going to four years since the UPND came into power and during that time, I held a very crucial position as leader of opposition and obviously, I saw the persecution of a number of my colleagues by the current government merely because of their dissenting voice. And if the past four years they didn’t see anything that I had done wrong or where I had offended the law and they can only see it now, we stand ready. I stand ready,” said Mundubile.

(Credit: News Diggers)