Lubinda’s police report against Zumani may cost us votes next year – Canisius Banda
PF member Canisius Banda has advised Given Lubinda to withdraw the police report filed against fellow PF and Tonse member Chris Zumani Zimba, stating that such an action by the PF faction acting president may cost the party votes next year.
On Thursday, Lubinda reported Zumani to the police for cyber related crimes and defamation.
In a statement, Banda expressed shock that Lubinda had to report his fellow PF member who would help the party ascend to power in 2026 through his vote.
“I am deeply troubled by this report if it is indeed true. I am assuming that Zumani is an opposition member like all of us, who would give us not just a vote but vital strategic contributions,” said Banda.
“I am also thinking that Zumani is an insider in this opposition family who should be sat down by the acting president should there be disagreements between them.”
He explained that Lubinda needed to resolve whatever issues he had with his little brother Zumani internally.
“However, reporting him to police may cause the police to pounce on him. This certainly would take away from all of us. We may consider realising that should police move in on him, it is us who are expected to offer him solidarity. How then are we going to do so if or when the report is made by our own leader?
This is likely going to put the whole opposition undertaking in a very awkward position,” he stated.
“This may be time for reconciliation and more reconciliation within ourselves. Let us consider looking at the events of the last few days.”
Banda also wondered why PF cadres that disrupted Sean Tembo’s scheduled meeting about two weeks ago were not reported to the police.
“Our own supporters violently disrupted a meeting, which we were meant to attend. None of us reported those youths to police for the abuse we suffered. Even though some of our youths were calling for us to be arrested instead, we have all ignored this, and we are waiting for an optune time to discuss with our youths and hopefully reconcile with them.”
“If this report is true, I sincerely and strongly call upon the acting president to withdraw the report and pursue a more uniting route of reconciliation. The acting president could even consider deploying third parties who are abundantly available at his disposal to mediate,” urged Banda.
By Catherine Pule
Kalemba, October 11, 2025
Which votes are you worried about Dr Banda? Which sensible, level-headed Zambian would waste their vote on PF?
Relax man. The next president is neither coming from PF nor UPND. Voters are working tirelessly in the background to ensure we have a completely new face. When the time is right, all will be revealed. Playing that card early would result in the dictator arresting the next candidate, or even worse.
As for Lubinda and Nakacinda, they have had court cases, but neither have been jailed. They are lucky to have birthright immunities. In as much as Zimba was in the wrong, Lubinda should not have involved the UPND controlled police, knowing fully well their insatiable appetite to arrest Northerners and Easterners. True, Zimba should have learnt a lesson when Mushanina bwali Mumba forgave him and withdrew the complaint. Anyway, such is life. Lubinda feels very injured. But do we want another vengeful president that can not forgive? There are ways to solve differences between brothers, but involving the UPND police is taking it to another level.
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VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
Unfortunately, this is how we Zambians reason. The victim becomes the villain. Standard Zambian justice. Lubinda’s credibility and integrity is at stake and dont forget he is vying for the PF and State presidency. If, as Dr. Zumani is claiming, he authored those emails and WhatsApp messages and then denies it, whi would take him seriously as a presidential candidate?
Let Dr. Zumani through ZICTA establish the authenticity of his claims. Then we will know who the villain is. Let us not play politics with people’s reputations.
PF has no votes to lose Sir. It is an unwanted force, never to b used again ever.
Zumani can be PF or anything else, but if it is true that he crafted those massages, then he needs to account. Just that act of crafting massages is enough to show what kind of person he is if it is proved that he made them up
Lubinda is not happy because his integrity is being damaged by those allegations.He is a Presidential hopeful, if one deliberately decides to use that route to cause damage to his character then, Lubinda wants to simply polish his character to show Chris that he is wrong.But Chris can apologize to Lubinda openly as well as using the media to show that he was wrong if he just lied.Chris did apologize to Dr N.Mumba recently for using bad language and was forgiven unconditionally.Let him just do that to Lubinda.Lubinda may cool down and forgive his young brother.But if Chris thinks what he did is right and correct then it will be difficult to resolve at police level.I have been advising this PF faction on their appetite of frequenting Courts to resolve their disputes, as time wasting.Here we are again.The time they are wasting is costing them.They claim that they will dislodge UPND from power, how surely can that happen when they are engaged in many war fronts? We are watching how they mismanage time and their in fighting.When we advise we are told to shut up ” praise singers”.