*OPPOSITION LEADERS: WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM THE 2021 GENERAL ELECTIONS ABOUT TRIBAL POLITICS?
By Mulenga Mushibwe Matanda.
During the 2021 general elections, the former ruling party, the Patriotic Front (PF), resorted to tribal politics.
Many PF politicians, like Mr. Chishimba Kambwili, campaigned against the UPND and President Hakainde Hichilema by focusing on his ethnicity.
PF members traveled to regions like Northern, Muchinga, Luapula, Eastern, and Copperbelt provinces to criticize President Hichilema and the UPND based on tribal lines.
Despite this, President Hichilema and the UPND won the elections by a wide margin, even in those areas where PF attempted to use tribal arguments.
Now, I observe that current opposition leaders and their parties are employing the same tribal tactics that led to the PF’s defeat in 2021.
The truth is that today’s generation is less concerned with tribal identities and cultural backgrounds; many young people don’t even know their own clans.
Therefore, trying to discredit someone based on their tribe is simply a waste of time.
With that in mind, I still ask the opposition leaders: what lessons have you learned about tribal politics?
Do they even look like those who learn? They shall be beaten with the same rod of their stinky tribalism in 2026 and 2031 if they will still be standing by then.
What we have learnt is that pipo in Zambezi region vote for themselves and uond only while in other region pipo vote for every one regardless of there origin hope u have listened
What a foolish liar.
In 1991 and 1996 the sp called Zambezi region have chiluba 100% votes, eastern alone voted for unip.
The problem of the opposition they don’t have messages to us zambians.We can not change government every five years just for the seek exercising democracy no we are not running the boutique were by you can change the type of pants In your shop
But this government has failed. Corruption is an order of the day. Masebo and others like Muchende and many Ministers purportedly being investigated are supposed to be in jail. We don’t need to wait for change of regime in order to bring to book corrupt government officials.