🔷 NKANDU SAYS KASAMA VICTORY ENDORSES HH
UPND Deputy Spokesperson and Kasama mayoral election campaign manager Elvis Nkandu has described the party’s victory in the Kasama mayoral by-election as an endorsement of President Hakainde Hichilema’s leadership and the UPND government’s policy direction. His remarks followed the declaration of UPND candidate Bywell Simposya as the winner after he polled 17,647 votes in Thursday’s contest.
The report states that Simposya defeated his closest rival from the Forum for Democracy and Development, Peter Yuda, who received 14,302 votes across Kasama Central and Lukashya constituencies. Nkandu is quoted crediting President Hichilema’s “visionary leadership” for the victory and for the inroads UPND has made in Northern Province.
UPND Media Director Mark Simuuwe is also quoted describing the result as a reflection of the party’s sustained work to position itself positively in the region since the 2021 general elections. The report connects Nkandu’s comments to government programmes and policy focus, including the Constituency Development Fund and free education.
Nkandu, Kasama is not Zambia, okey if you say Kasama’s endorses him, then what does Chawama’s loss indicate. Muzamuziba Yesu, that know it all posture by HH is what people do not like, tell him to be humble before it is too late. If people have not told you the truth, l have just laid it out for you, people think he is too full of self praise and a know it all and that is what they don’t like about him. It is not his lamentation about being hated, they don’t hate him as a person but his know it all posture and that is what people will vote against to humble him