LUNGU DIED A SAD MAN AFTER BEING DETHRONED AS PF PRESIDENT – ZUMANI
TONSE Alliance faction Secretary General Chris Zumani Zimba says former president Edgar Lungu died a dethroned PF leader, carrying to the grave the consequences of Miles Sampa’s decision to hand the party to the UPND.
He adds that Lungu entrusted Raphel Nakacinda to integrate PF members into the alliance, since Given Lubinda’s attachment to PF risked destabilising Tonse.
Asked to comment on Tonse Alliance being referred to as illegal on KBN TV recently, Zimba said Sampa’s political relevance to PF was now zero and he could not be trusted to lead the very alliance he once undermined.
“I’ve seen Miles Sampa, the man who sold PF from the hands of PF members and ECL, he threw it in the hands of HH and the UPND. Politically, the man betrayed his own PF members and the former president. Today I see the man dancing around as Tonse Alliance. We formed Tonse Alliance for ECL and all of the PF members who were stranded, and all of us, because Miles Sampa and Robert Chabinga had sold PF to UPND. How can a political Judas Iscariot who transacted PF to the UPND now become Tonse? So, his political relevance to PF is zero to me, so such a man cannot be made to be at the helm of Tonse Alliance. I’ll say no, equally that’s double betrayal to ECL even in death because even ECL would not be happy to see that. So, if Miles Sampa has reconciled with us as PF since he reconciled with our father, let Miles Sampa sit on the floor, he can’t become the leader of the party he sold,” Zimba said.
“Do you know that even in Tonse Alliance we are here because of the actions of Miles Sampa? He has been forgiven, ECL forgave him, but ECL died a dethroned king in PF. So, the consequences of Miles Sampa’s actions in October 2023 still went to the grave with ECL. He never died as a happy PF president because PF was not given to him. PF was still in the hands of Robert Chabinga, and it’s still in the hands of Robert Chabinga, so the consequences of that are still with us today. Today PF can’t be on the ballot. We have forgiven our brother, even I don’t have personal issues with him, but we can’t sit on the ballot as PF because of his actions. So, in as much as we have forgiven him and we embrace him, he should not be arrogant to insult us because we forgave him. Later on, to call us who created the Tonse Alliance illegal when we created it because of desperation after PF was sold to the UPND by himself, that is not right morally”.
Zimba added that it was shameful for Jean Kapata to even claim association with the Tonse Alliance, since she was never part of its founding framework.
“The people calling that general congress illegal don’t even know when Tonse was formed, they don’t even have an idea where the name Tonse came from. They were just brought on board by ECL later and Secretary General Raphel Nakacinda, because, by the PF point of view, ECL entrusted Nakacinda. He didn’t trust his vice-president, Honourable Lubinda. He said, Zimba, you should work closely with Nakacinda. Nakacinda is going to help me bring them in Tonse one by one. Those (Given Lubinda) believe in PF party too much. So, if we bring them as a gang, they will destabilise the alliance. So, Nakacinda was the focal person for ECL, whom he trusted to manage the PF one by one because ECL had already told us that we were to use the ECL PF Movement, not the PF party,” he said.
“So, we were very careful in terms of managing them because some of them were submerged in the idea of fighting Robert Chabinga in court [but] ECL had already graduated because he felt betrayed when Miles Sampa grabbed the party from him and threw it into the hands of the UPND and HH. So, even when ECL was going to UKA, he never went with PF, he went as ECL PF Movement with his followers. He was sitting in UKA as Edgar Chagwa Lungu and started poaching his PF loyalists into UKA one by one. He never wanted to deal with PF as a party. Had UKA cooperated with ECL, ECL wanted to migrate his loyalists’ members countrywide from PF into UKA, they would have become UKA members. So, when we were creating Tonse Alliance, that’s the framework he was still using. Not everyone was entrusted. I’ve seen Professor Nkandu Luo now claiming to be Tonse Alliance, she was not on the table. I’ve seen madam Jean Kapata, it’s quite shameful for her to even pronounce the word Tonse”.
Asked whether Kelvin Fube Bwalya (KBF) exited from the alliance, Zimba said he was unsure if KBF was politically lost or still floating in the alliance.
“I don’t know if we politically lost him or he is still floating, it’s up to him. He wanted to discredit what he subscribed to, that is not acceptable. Political honesty must be emphasised; political integrity is important. So, I’ve never commented on the issue of KBF to date. I do respect him, he’s a good man, but I want to say that political integrity, political honesty and political consistency are very important. His conduct, for me, lacked those three important virtues: political consistency, political integrity, political honesty, and above all, political tolerance. It lacked those. This amended constitution, he is one of the primary movers of the constitution to remove the PF party, one of the key persons or advocates who wanted PF party out so that we maintain the ECL PF Movement is president KBF,” said Zimba.
“The virtual council of leaders meeting we had in January, chaired by president Dan Pule, resolved to remove the PF party and retain the ECL PF Movement. President KBF participated actively and was part of the resolutions. When we were having a ceremonial event to sign the amended constitution at FDD offices, he was one of the key political figures who gladly signed it, and I’m made to believe that he is a state lawyer. So, I don’t know if he signed it blindly, I don’t know whether it was negligence, I don’t know whether it was a strategy to manipulate us, so I don’t know why he signed the amended constitution. For him to somersault and turn, I don’t know. I hope and pray he comes back to Tonse Alliance and works with us”.
Meanwhile, responding on his Facebook page, Sampa said PF was doing well in power until “Dr Theories” was allowed to join and brought fake strategies.
“PF was doing well in power until that ka Dr Theories was allowed to join & brought classroom fake strategies which led to PF losing power. He possesses spirits of losing. I thank God he never showed up in Chawama, otherwise we would have lost,” stated Sampa.
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