LUBINDA IS PF PRESIDENT – CK , BUT MWAMBA DISAGREES
OUTSPOKEN opposition Patriotc Front (PF) founding member, Chishimba Kambwili, has stirred the party waters by declaring Given Lubinda as the assumed substantive PF President following the demise of Edgar Chagwa Lungu in June this year.
Speaking during a Press briefing in Lusaka this evening, Kambwili wondered why Mr. Lubinda was being tolerant against to other party members who were allegedly undermining his authority as Party President, appealing to him to crack the whip and fire belligerent members.
He claims that according to the Party Constitution, when a substantive Party President dies or resigns as the case was with Mr. Edgar Lungu, the Acting President assumes authority.
Kambwili has urged Lubinda to ensure that he fully exercises his powers and crack the whip against any misbehaving member of the Party.
Meanwhile the former Roan Member of Parliament has single handedly cautioned Kanchibiya Member of Parliament Sunday Chanda against siding with the ruling Party UPND on the controversial Bill 7 as it comes for second reading on Monday. Kambwili said it is shocking that the Kanchibiya MP has all the sudden abandoned the ideology of PF a Party he said accommodated him when he was alleged vulnerable.
Chanda was not available for comment by press time to confirm whether or not he would vote with UPND on Bill 7 in the National Assembly.
However, PF Spokesperson domiciled in the USA, Emmanuel Mwamba has disagreed with Mr. Kambwili saying Mr. Lubinda remains in the Acting capacity.
Mwamba said Mr. Kambwili was offside on grounds that the debate on how one assumes office as party President was already settled under provisions of the PF Constitution in 2014.
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Is this when you are coming to your senses? You mean all this time you didn’t know what the party Constitution says? It’s too little too late now, PF is already dead, you had killed it yourselves because of selfishness and tribalism. We know that Mwila, Mundubile, Mwamba, Nkandu Luo, Mumbai Phiri and many others are not happy with this development. To them Lubinda is a foreigner and he has no people to vote for him. Moreover they say he is not a pure green and in Zambia, he comes from the Zambezi Region if at all there is such a region. You see how tribalism can destroy the country? So we expect a wider crack within this Lubinda led faction and it’s impossible to win any election in this fragmented state, united we stand, divided we fall. What Kambwili has said are just mere words of the mouth, PF has not healed, it still remains deeply divided, may be if they had gone for a convention, such a decision or pronouncement could have come from a general consensus and not from one individual or one faction. I am saying so because, Mundubile, Makebi Zulu and Lubinda himself are all already endorsed as Lungu successors but none of them can effectively unite the fragmented PF, instead it is headed for further fragmentation especially after the burial of Lungu if it’s true he is dead. And this division or disunity in PF is what is making some PF MPs to think twice, elections are around the corner but their party is fragmenting further, who is going to adopt them? People need to be adopted by a formidable party and not a faction, hence each PF MP will need to be aligned with a party where he/she can be adopted and many of them may look at UPND as the only option for now. And if that is the case, many PF MPs and Independents will support Bill 7 today not necessarily as a betrayal to the people but as a means of survival. Those MPs with wisdom already know that supporting the ruling party is the best option for now especially those who have diligently developed their Constituencies using CDF, their campaign will be very easy, it will be a walk over because they will just be pointing at what they have done. Sonta epo wabomba will matter a lot next year. Those who wanted to de-campaign HH by not utilizing CDF will realize that they were actually de-campaigning themselves and they will never smell the inside of Parliament again. So it’s very important to take a wise decision now before it’s too late. Very soon Parliament will be dissolved and each one will be on his/her own therefore the decision should be taken fast and individually, time is running out.