PF HOLDS EMERGENCY CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING
PF TO SUPPORT OPPOSITION CANDIDATE IN KAWAMBWA BY-ELECTION
…as President Lungu warns of entrenched dictatorship and continued abuse of the law by President Hakainde Hichilema….
Sunday-17th November 2024
Zambia’s Sixth President Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, has bemoaned that President Hakainde Hichilema is determined to destroy democracy and the rule of law in Zambia.
He has also warned that as the country goes towards 2026, President Hichilema will continue to break the law, disregard the Constitution and the rule of law as seen in the last 3 years.
President Lungu stated that a fresh illegality was recently witnessed, when new office bearers were illegally changed and illegally installed as leaders of the Patriotic Front.
He said all these decisions were being perpetrated by officers including Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Jack Mwiimbu and his Permanent Secretary, Dickson Matembo, were meant to defranchise and bar the participation of the Patriotic Front in the democratic processes of this country as seen in the last one year.
President Lungu was speaking in his opening remarks during the Emergency Central Committee Meeting held on Sunday 17th November,2024 to resolve the Party’s participation in the Kawambwa by-election.
The Party has also maintained that the by-election being held in Kawambwa remains totally illegal as high court orders issued by the Chinsali High Court to stay and stop the Kawambwa by-election, whose court orders have been blatantly ignored and disregarded.
He said the Party must continue to fight through legal processes but also through political methods.
Meanwhile the Patriotic Front has resolved that it will support a candidate that will be fielded by the Opposition in the Kawambwa By-election.
The decisions were made at an emergency Central Committee Meeting held on Sunday, 17th November 2024.
The Central Committee stated that it will activate party structures to identify a candidate, publicly support and campaign for the identified candidate.
And the Party will place and implement a robust political campaign and urged all MPs, all leaders and ordinary members to camp in Kawambwa in order to honour the Patriotic Front Deputy Secretary General Hon. Nixon Chilangwa, whose seat was being stolen in broad day light.
He said it was important that the Party won the Kawambwa seat.
And the Central Committee has reaffirmed its commitment to reclaim the Patriotic Front despite sustained attack from government against the Party.
The Central Committee formally thanked the Tonse Alliance for its gracious gesture to endorse President Lungu as the 2026 Presidential Candidate.
The Central Committee also reaffirmed its commitment to work with other political alliances and will continue to engage in electoral pacts with other Opposition political parties.
Statement issued by;
Hon. Raphael Nakacinda
Secretary General
PATRIOTIC FRONT
