By Walusungu Lundu
THE “little show” the PF put up at the Nc’wala ceremony in an attempt to smear the name of President Hakainde Hichilema has instead landed them into shame in eyes of majority citizens.
During the ceremony at Mtenguleni Royal Village in Chipata City of Eastern Province, PF acting president Given Lubinda sat on a chair reserved for one of the new dawn ministers instead of taking a seat reserved for leaders of opposition parties.
When asked to vacate the seat, the opposition leader who either forgot that he was no longer in power or deliberately made a move to gain political sympathy, resisted.
Later on, the party acting secretary general Nickson Chilangwa put out a press statement alleging that President Hichilema had instructed that Lubinda and his entourage should be ejected from the ceremony.
Commenting on the same, Brebner Changala advised the opposition PF to sober up and come to terms with their historical loss.
Changala, a good governance activist, said the PF should revisit the many challenges that they face and the conduct that made them lose an election.
He charged that the PF had been invaded by scavengers, men and women who are not really PF.
Changala accused the same “scavengers” of being opportunists who have gone to feed on the dead carcass.
“The former ruling party is behaving in a manner that is totally strange and provocative. They are lucky that they have an effective media team that they are abusing to the full extent. The chaos that they wanted to create at the Nc’wala ceremony, the misinformation that they generated and later on spread it in a viral manner is mostly unfortunate. My word and advice to the Patriotic Front and its leadership is to sober up, come to terms with their loss. Revisit the many challenges that they face and the conduct that made them lose an election which was violence, dishonest, corruption and pomposity,” he said.
“But I must also say the Patriotic Front has been invaded by scavengers. Men and women who are not really PF but who are opportunists, who have gone to feed on the dead carcass. And these are people who are trying to show that the Patriotic Front is indeed live and kicking. And they are all over the media trying to misinform the general populace but I know the people of Zambia are extremely alert and these schemes will not succeed.”
Changala observed that Lubinda and his team wanted to abuse the name of the President in attempting to mislead citizens.
He said PF wanted to misinform Zambians that they are not being governed well and that the former ruling party “is the only party that has been the best in the country when the opposite is true”.
“I do not believe that Mr Hakainde Hichilema can instruct a traditional ceremony leadership to eject people he doesn’t seem to like and indeed that instruction is complied to. I doubt it. You have to be out of your mind,” argued Changala.
“But I know they want to abuse his name. They want to mislead the people of Zambia. They want to misinform the people of Zambia that we are not being governed well and that PF is the only party that has been the best in this country when the opposite is true. It is very sad and totally unacceptable.”