PRESIDENT HAKAINDE HICHILEMA WALLOPS OPPONENTS IN ONLINE OPINION POLL CONDUCTED ON EMMANUEL MWAMBA PAGE
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has come out victorious in an online opinion poll conducted by outspoken government critic Emmanuel Mwamba on his Facebook page
The poll, posted yesterday, asked followers to choose their preferred presidential candidate among President Hichilema, Mporokoso lawmaker and Tonse Alliance faction leader Brian Mundubile, presidential aspiring candidate Makebi Zulu and Citizens First president Harry Kalaba.
By press time after 24 hours of the polls, President Hichilema led comfortably with over 20,000 votes.
Mundubile followed with slightly over 11,000 votes, Makebi Zulu came third with about 7,200 votes and Kalaba was a distant fourth a with handful of 1,600 votes.
The outcome surprised many Facebook users, given that the poll was conducted on the page of a well-known critic of the President.
Several commenters weighed in, offering their own explanations for the results.
Some users observed that most participants were likely followers of Mwamba and therefore largely PF-leaning, yet Hichilema still won.
“Note that people voting here are just people who follow Emmanuel Mwamba so they are mostly PF inclined, but HH is still winning. Imagine if it was a neutral page,” one user commented.
Others were more direct, saying the results showed that Hichilema remained the top choice for many voters.
One commenter noted that the President was unlikely to lose power in the August 13 elections and suggested that the opposition needed to accept that reality.
“The truth is that HH isn’t going anywhere come August 2026. The earlier the opposition accepts this reality, the better… will come back to this comment after,” another one commented.
However, based on Mwamba’s poll, Hichilema was the clear favourite among those who took part.
Useless polling
We hope this fugitive can now seal his lips and keep quiet, he’s an extremely poisonous person.
The “poll” should not send UPND to sleep nor cause Ms. Imenda, the assistant SG, to intensify her witch hunt against MPs who abstained during Bill 7 voting.
The finishing line is still in the distance and anything can happen between now and August 2026. The war in the Middle East is such one threat. It has the potential to put a lot of pressure on the economic gains we have made the past four years.
From the “poll”, what is not surprising is that Mr. Kalaba is turning out to be a failed project.