OPPOSITION WILL WIN IN 2026, SAYS PROFESSOR MOONGA
By Prof. Proud Moonga, PhD, Lecturer, University of Michigan
Let me be clear: the most tribal government of the UPND and President Hakainde Hichilema have betrayed the Zambian people. They came into power on a wave of hope but have delivered economic collapse, political persecution, and unrestrained corruption. What was promised as a new dawn has turned into a dark chapter. The UPND has become a danger to democracy, and Hichilema’s government has lost all legitimacy. They are a failed project and the people know it.
The 2026 elections will sweep them out, but removing the UPND is not enough. Zambia needs a complete national overhaul: a new system of governance, new leadership, and a development strategy that puts Zambians first, not foreign interests or political cronies.
This starts with urgent institutional reforms. The Zambia Police Service must be depoliticized and professionalized. It exists to protect citizens, not to serve as a private militia for politicians. The judiciary must be made truly independent, with all judicial appointments, including the Chief Justice and deputies handled by the Judicial Service Commission, subject to parliamentary scrutiny. No more backdoor appointments.
The Electoral Commission of Zambia must also be rebuilt. As long as the president appoints the ECZ Chairperson and Commissioners, elections will never be free or fair. This power must be transferred to the Chief Justice, an impartial figure, to ensure electoral integrity.
We must also reject career politicians and businessmen who see politics as a personal business venture. What Zambia needs is a people’s president, a servant leader, with no baggage, no links to corruption, and no loyalty to failed systems. While the people’s president will be elected through a general election, the process of identifying the people’s candidate must begin now.
That’s why I am making a direct appeal to Mr. Brebner Changala, a respected voice of conscience and a fearless advocate for justice, to spearhead the People’s Candidate Movement.
This movement should bring together a coalition of priests, traditional leaders, civil society organisations, labour unions, community leaders, and other interest groups with a clear and urgent purpose:
1. To identify a viable, clean, and nationally acceptable people’s candidate,
2. To foster unity among opposition political parties around that candidate, and
3. To establish a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)—a political platform for the candidate and all supporting structures including MPs, mayors, council chairpersons, and councillors to contest the 2026 elections under a united banner.
This movement must not wait for career politicians to anoint one of their own. It must be people-led, transparent, and rooted in national interest not tribal, partisan, or elitist interests.
In this national effort, the Bemba and Eastern communities have a critical role to play. Far from being tribal, as some would falsely claim, these regions are currently politically marginalized. Yet they hold immense political weight. Their leadership is needed not for regional dominance, but to help unify the country behind a candidate who represents all Zambians, regardless of tribe or province. The people’s candidate can, and should, come from any part of Zambia, including Bemba or Eastern regions, as long as they are credible, clean, and committed to the people.
Let there be no illusions: the tribal UPND government is finished. But our focus must be bigger than just defeating a failed regime. We must build a new political culture, one that rejects corruption, tribalism, recycled leadership, and weak governance.
The People’s Candidate Movement must become the beginning of that new era. Let Mr. Changala take up this responsibility with the full support of patriotic Zambians. Let the institutions of moral authority, the Church, LAZ, traditional leaders, unions, civil society and youth, rally behind the process.
2026 must not just be an election. It must be a reset. A revolution. A new beginning. Led by the people, for the people, through the people.
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An entire pulofesa ejaculating unfounded allegations of tribalism. And offering nothing but bitterness and malice as solutions.
If HH and UPND hadn’t renegotiated the terms of the kaloba PF contracted, Zambia would be a basket case. PF defaulted not once, but twice, on repayment of debt. And have nothing to show for huge debt they contracted. Except ingratitude, bitterness and playing the everlasting victims.
Continue hallucinating there in the diaspora. Zambians now what is good for themselves. The good thing about social media is that it keeps a record of pseudointellectual positions such as the one espouse by the so called pulofesa. Come September 2026, you will be sh!tting bricks and wondering who kicked you.
Malikopo we are praying for your redemption.The prof understands your ailment: Stockholm syndrome, while being in the clutches of the evil one!!’
Abena observer, continue praying. It is your democratic right. To be wrong. Zambia is in a better place, in better hands, and we can never revert back to the idiots who ran a selfish agenda and whose only interest is filing their stomachs and emptying the treasury. The pulofesa understands nothing. You can continue feeding on his excrement as you wish.
Well said. Amen!
It’s unfortunate that even people I thought were learned thousands kms away and last seen in Zambia during RB are talking like he stays in Matero.
Bwana don’t conclude by depending on feeds from your opposition. Like it or not opposition stands no chance in 2026 not even in 2031. Truth be said to the doomed Professor in Michigan. Get ready to be ruled by HH next five years after 2026 elections. You may argue it won’t change the narrative.
Really? We’re praying for your deliverance!
The devil at work again!!!
The devil is being drawn into what he is not even aware of. He must be very surprised! When reality on the ground proves hard to accept, the devil usually becomes the victim. Of course, we know that he was the culprit and minder of those PF thugs and criminals who were pillaging our country from 2015 to 2021.
Obviously, he’s deluded, no facts, but dreams. Which opposition?
It gives me hope that there are people like MOONGA who can speak the truth. He would have chosen to just keep quiet and bask in his birthright immunity, but he is a true patriot. He loathes tribalism. We need more people from Southern province to speak out against injustice and tribalism we are experiencing. This is the only way our country will get united. We can not let an impotent corrupt conman divide us.
REJECT TRIBALISM, CORRUPTION AND OPPRESSION.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
Believe what you want if it makes you feel better, but it does not change the facts. But so you don’t suffer from a stroke next year, I would advise you to listen to Mr. Muhabi Lungu about the current political state in the country so you have an idea of what will happen in next year’s elections. By the way, just because you don’t like it, it does not change the truth. Truth does not depend on you or me liking it; truth remains truth whichever way, it’s just a matter of accepting it if one does not want to be disappointed in life.
The moment I read the first sentence “Let me be clear: the most tribal government of the UPND and President Hakainde Hichilema have betrayed the Zambian people.” I switched off. I didnt want to read someting from a deluded and impaired intellect proffessor.
I must express my disagreement with Prof. Proud Moonga regarding his unfounded assertions about the UPND government. The reality is that the UPND government has made significant efforts to combat corruption and tribalism within its ranks and the happenings that occurred during the PF regime. Professor Moonga’s stance is devoid of substance and is merely rhetoric fueled by emotions and a lack of understanding of the current situation in Zambia under the leadership of President Hakainde Hichilema.
I would have respected Professor Moonga had he provided a comparative analysis of the PF’s performance in areas such as economic management, governance, police conduct, the judiciary, anti-corruption efforts, debt management, and tribal politics alongside the UPND government’s achievements over its four years in power. It is profoundly disappointing to observe that the entire opposition, along with its affiliates, is focused on disparaging and spreading false narratives aimed solely at undermining President Hakainde Hichilema. The opposition parties are a disgrace; they are delusional and hypocritical, using deceit to promote tribal politics and falsehood. Their malicious schemes have tragically failed, and a significant disappointment awaits them. Their strategy to oust the UPND government is a doomed endeavour.
Irrelevant dreamer who probably would not vote in 2027. The analysis lacks grounded facts and therefore irrelevant.. Only bitterness is detected in the write up
Voting takes place in 2026