PF DYNAMICS INTENSIFY AS UPND COURTS LUBINDA AMID PRAISE FROM PARTY INSIDERS
THE Patriotic Front’s internal dynamics have come under renewed spotlight following remarks by Obvious Mwaliteta, who has openly urged former party leader Given Lubinda to defect to the ruling United Party for National Development.
Arguing that he has been used and finished despite playing a key role in maintaining the party’s structures.
Mr Mwaliteta further alleged that Lubinda’s current treatment mirrors that of Guy Scott under the Patriotic Front, suggesting a pattern of sidelining influential figures within the former ruling party.
He was speaking at the Party Secretariat when they received defectors from the Patriotic Front and Zambia Must Prosper.
Meanwhile, PF faction President Makebi Zulu has struck a contrasting tone, praising Lubinda’s leadership and revealing that senior party figures held cordial and productive discussions with him at his residence in Lusaka.
Mr Zulu commended Lubinda’s resilience and stewardship following the party’s loss of power in 2021, noting that his dedication has been instrumental in sustaining and strengthening the PF during a difficult transition period.
He further emphasized Lubinda’s continued commitment to party unity and his active involvement in efforts to reposition the PF as a strong and credible alternative, expressing confidence that his experience and guidance will remain vital as the party seeks to mobilise support and potentially push for a change of government this year.
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Obvious Mwaliteta is a loose canon. Does he think Lubinda who was accused of illegally selling plots in Kabwata to the extent of being beaten by his own cadres when he was MP?
Quality should prevail over quantity…that Mwaliteta call was PF mentality. Mwaliteta himself is not supposed to be allowed to vociferate nonsense. There has to be order and hierarchy. Cornelius needs to leash this bulldog.
Mwaliteta is looking for cadres like him to continue the same old non sense he has done all his life. Loot in the name of leadership. He cant control his mouth and if anyone remembers him in the Mwanawasa era. How did he bad mouth Bradford Machila? When he successed what did he achieve for the position he fought so hard to achieve?
Going forward, we dont need poverty stricken loot seeking leaders. Elect people with a track record of having done something in life before politics. Njala wabenagu sisila…the aspire to get into office to deprive the people they serve. They are unelectable…
Mr. Lubinda must remain firmly rooted in PF. He should maintain the little integrity he has left by continuing to support PF.
He played his part by holding PF together though he is, at the same time, to blame for all the mess in PF for maintaining a power vacuum by failing to hold
an elective convention for five solid years (poor leadership!).