MILES SAMPA ATTRIBUTES UPND’S PAMBASHE WIN TO RURAL NATURE OF THE CONSTITUENCY
By Limpo Nyambe
Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa has attributed the UPND’s victory in the Pambashe by election to the area’s rural nature, while their loss in Petauke Central is a sign of growing discontent over economic and human rights issues in urban areas.
Commenting on the outcome of the Pambashe and Kawambwa by-elections, Mr. Sampa notes that despite the upnd deploying significant resources, including cabinet ministers, they still lost by a margin of 3,000 votes in Petauke.
In an interview with Phoenix News, Mr. Sampa is challenging the UPND to call for a by-election in Lusaka’s Chawama Constituency, predicting an even heavier defeat of 15,000 votes.
However, UPND Deputy Secretary General Gertrude Imenda has dismissed Mr. Sampa’s argument, stating that the rural-urban comparison does not hold, citing the party’s victory in Kawambwa, which is as urban as Petauke Central Constituency.
Recently, Mr. Sampa alleged that the UPND is only popular in rural areas and has been daring the ruling party to push for a by-election in an urban population to test its popularity.
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Mr Sampa, don’t talk like someone who never went to school, you seem to have wasted your time and money going to school. You are just fulfilling the racist phrase:”You can take an African out of the Bush, but you can’t take the Bush out of the African”. ZAMBIA DOES NOT NEED THESE BY-ELECTIONS. They are useless and unnecessary. They are just a waste of the scarce resources of our country which can be utilised in other needy areas and also these By-Elections just polarise our people along tribal and political lines, which in my opinion is mere stupidity. The Constitution should just be amended to do away with these stupid By-Elections.
Miles Sampa should be concerned about his PF faction. Even his own position as Member of Parliament, whether or not he can or will be able to retain it 2026. Or will he be PF presidential candidate?
Miles is a fool.
UPND top brass please check the down brass it does not embrass others on the grass roots. They normally repel new members and others they suspect to be opposition. Start mobilisation on the grass roots the elite don’t vote and are few…the poor are the majority. Make tarmacs in compound not mums yard.
In the recent 3 bye elections, I have seen a pf candidate, what’s going on Ba Sampa?
So by elections in Zambia are called at the discretion of an imbecile’s retarded mental state. Mr. Sampa, by elections are called and occur when conditions dictate. Zambia is NOT going to have by elections to test the ground especially to satisfy your ego. Zambians have become highly analytical fortunately, both in rural and urban areas. Follow the trends, and you will realise why.