“… Nakacinda and Given Lubinda can’t win a ward Councilor on PF ticket in their respective homem villages…”
TRIBALISM? WHAT TRIBALISM?
By Sean Tembo – PeP President & TONSE ALLIANCE Spokesperson
Hon. Mumbi Phiri’s statement that if a Bemba picks an Easterner running-mate, then we will win, is a political strategy statement and not a tribal statement, as some are alleging.
Those who say this is a tribal statement, can you explain how it amounts to a tribal statement?
Also tell us what combination of candidates would not amount to a tribal presidential ticket? To begin with, how does a ticket made up of two regions amount to a tribal ticket? If Hon. Mumbi Phiri had said the winning ticket needs to be a Bemba with another Bemba as running mate, then perhaps that would be seen as tribal. But that’s not what she said.
Let us avoid politics of blackmail. By the way, l agree with Hon. Mumbi Phiri 100%. The ticket that has the greatest chance of removing UPND is one with a northerner (Muchinga, Luapula or Northern Province) as presidential candidate, and an Easterner as running mate.
Of course, other ticket combinations can also win, but in my view, the ticket that has the greatest chance of winning is the one Hon. Mumbi Phiri proposed.
Anywhere in the world, political parties have regional strongholds. Nothing wrong or tribal about that. Even in the US, democrats are strong up north, and republicans are strong down south. The middle states such as Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, etcetera are referred to as swing states, or battleground states, and decide the election outcome.
It is almost standard practice that both democratic and republican presidential candidates pick a running mate from a swing state, because it is meaningless for a democratic presidential candidate to pick a running mate from a southern state such as Mississippi or Alabama because such a running mate would not bring any votes to the ticket from where they’re coming from, because those are staunch republican states.
Similarly it is meaningless for a republican presidential candidate to pick a running mate from northern states such as Vermont or Massachusetts, because such a running mate would not bring any votes to the ticket from where they’re coming from, because those are staunch democratic states.
In my considered view, both Hon. Given Lubinda and Hon. Raphael Nakachinda cannot win a Ward Councillor seat on a PF ticket, in their respective home villages, because those are UPND strongholds. That’s a fact. You might like it, or you might hate it, but it’s a fact.
The majority of those trying to condemn Hon. Mumbi Phiri’s statement are either UPND supporters or those that have been hired by the UPND to undermine the opposition from within. These are quite a number, by the way. But us well-meaning opposition leaders will not be bullied or blackmailed into floating a politically-impotent ticket, which will make us lose next year’s elections. We shall not be shy to openly talk about a ticket that has the greatest chance of winning us next year’s elections. What Hon. Mumbi Phiri said is a matter of fact. Whether you like a particular fact or you hate it, nothing changes, it remains a fact.
Anyway, TILI TONSE 欄 and the Future is SET ✌
SET 05.10.2025
As if you, you can win, are you not worse than them? Where have you ever won even a ward? Monkeys laugh at each not knowing that they wear almost the same face of amakope.
What kind of education did you atain Mr. Sean zero tembo (SZT)? What mumbi phiri is alleged to have said is pure tribalism simple and straight forward, even a 5 year old child can deduce that. For your own education, it would not have been tribalism if mumbi phiri mentioned names of her preferred candidates without mentioning their tribes just like am proposing mulenga Sata for president and Tasila Lungu for running mate. But mentioning a preferred tribe of candidates itself
I remember when Former Vice President Madam Inonge Wina was running mate to Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu, she wasn’t able to get the Western Province vote to the Edgar – Inonge Ticket. Westerners were still voting for Candidate Hakainde Hichilema. The Edgar – Inonge Ticket even lost in Nalolo Constituency whre madam Inonge Wina was past Member of Parliament.
It had to take the Northern Zambia Vote for the Lungu – Inonge Ticket to cross the Line.
Is Given Lubinda or Raphael Nakachinda going to get the Western Province or Southern Province vote to the Ticket in 2026 ? The answer is NO. These provinces will always vote for the UPND.
However Hon Given Lubinda and Raphael Nakachinda are cosmopolitan people, and shouldnt be looked at from Village lenses. They do have big followings in Cities and towns. That’s why Hon Given Lubinda was Member of Parliament for Kabwata.
The 2026 Presidential Elections for the Opposition will be won by two Cosmopolitan Provinces – Copperbelt and Lusaka Provinces.. with contribution from Northern/ Central part of Central Province.
The Opposition won’t get any thing significant from Southern, Western and North Western Provinces. They will even be getting zeros. They should just have candidates so that they prevent Rigging of National Elections.. Their candidates won’t win.
The only hope for the Opposition to win is by getting Eastern, Muchinga, Luapula, Northern, Northern/Central – Provinces( Kabwe, Kapiri, Mkushi, Serenje)
– and Copperbelt and Lusaka Provinces.
Unfortunately for the 2026 Presidential and General Elections, the ethnic structure of Zambia will play a significant role.
It’s the ethnic structure which will hold the Southern, Western,and North Western Provinces to the UPND,( TRIBALISM ) and according to Sean Tembo and Mumbi Phiri , it’s the same which will keep the Eastern, Muchinga Luapula and Northern Provinces( TRIBALISM) to the Patriotic Front/ Tonse Alliance.
So we will have Two Tribal Protagonists intending to keep their Tribal Strong Holds , through their respective Tribalism – While us in Lusaka and Copperbelt provinces will be analyzing issues such as Cost of Living, the Economy, Governance , Load shedding etc.
That’s the Zambia we have become sadly.
The idiot has forgotten sitting bleeding in a wheelchair
ZAMBIANS DON’T HAVE SHORT MEMORIES. THAT MONSTER, PF, STILL SENDS SHIVERS IN MOST GENUINE ZAMBIANS. THAT DIVISIVE PANGA WIELDING GANG OF MURDERERS, THIEVES AND ORGAN HARVESTERS, THAT GASSING GANG OF HEARTLESS PEOPLE, THAT ‘KAMUGODI’ TORTURE CHAMBER GROUP OF ARCHITECTS OF HATE AND VIOLENCE. WHO WANTS TO GO BACK TO THAT NONSENSE?