PF CENTRAL COMMITTEE HAS PUT THEIR PARTY ON DEATH BED
The Candidates’ Comment
Over the weekend, the Patriotic Front (PF) highest organ the Central Committee met at Ndozo lodge in Lusaka to deliberate about the future of the their party. The meeting was chaired by PF President Edgar Lungu and among the resolutions they made was that they will hold a general conference in June 2022. Of course this is retrogressive in all senses one looks at it.
When you look at the challenges that PF faces today, leadership crisis is prominent. The members of the PF countrywide are living like step-children who have an ‘acting’ father in the name of Edgar who is limited in what he can offer them. And since Edgar is limited, he has all these relatives of his whom he has bestowed the responsibility to take care of the children he himself should be looking after.
It is not a secret that many PF members are in disarray. Some are in self-imposed exile while others are in detention over this and that politically motivated charge and vengeance. Some are losing property and dignity at the hands of cold-hearted cadres of the United Party for National Development (UPND). Those relatives of Edgar whom he has bestowed the responsibility to look after the party are not seeing the suffering of the general membership of the party. Since these people are getting funded to represent Edgar, they are comfortable. They are driving all sorts of expensive vehicles and live large. They are blind and can’t see the suffering of the general membership of the party which is desperately looking for a father figure who is going to speak for, and protect them from the ongoing vengeance and retribution of the UPND cadres.
The truth is that, the decision to hold the general conference in June next year for a party that lost power few months ago and is suffering from leadership crisis, is nonsense. But we are not surprised that this decision was made by the PF Central Committee. These are elements that cost their party an election in the first place. The same arrogance and dullness they are exhibiting today is the one they exhibited while they were in power- and they lost power for that matter. We all know that the reason why they resolved that they would choose their leader next year is not because they have no money. PF has all the money they need to hold the conference. This is a party that spent over K100 million to run campaign adverts in the previous election. Where did they get that money if they claim they do not have the money to hold a simple conference to elect a new leader today? If they cannot explain where they got the K100 million while in power, and why they suddenly have no money to hold a general conference, then, we must not fail to agree with President Hakainde Hichilema that PF is an organization of thieves who printed money illegally and stole from public coffers.
We would like to place a big blame of Edgar himself. Edgar is a lawyer and not a dull lawyer. He is intelligent. Why has he allowed hyenas and jackals of all sorts to destroy the party that Michael Sata labored so hard for to create and grow? We do not believe that Edgar cannot find personal wisdom to realize that the hyenas that are misleading him are doing so for their personal benefits and not for the benefit of their party. They are after Edgar’s personal money. The same way they helped Edgar lose power is the same way they are today doing all the stupid things that will kill the PF.
As things stand, PF has been placed on its death bed. There are few hyenas in PF who are going to Edgar to get money for this and that all in the name of being leaders of this and that. It is that small clique of jackals, hyenas who have decided and influenced all others to believe and agree that they should hold a general conference next year. What happens between now and then? Where will the general membership go? Who will speak for them? Who will represent them? Should the general membership of the PF go to Edgar to seek help when faced with this and that challenge? The truth is that decision of the PF Central committee is stupid, foolish and shows how ignorant and arrogant the elements of that organization are.