Stop calling it UNITY when it is clearly a recruitment drive for personal ambition.
Everyone is “calling for unity,” but what they truly mean is: come and SUPPORT ME”.
Now, this is not leadership; it is manipulation wrapped in polite language to appear magnanimous when in actual sense you just want to use others to push you to State House.
Real unity is not convenient. It demands difficult conversations, genuine compromise, and the humility to accept that the position of President can be given to someone else and not necessarily you.
Unfortunately, this is a conversation everyone is avoiding. People want to appear magnanimous in the media and to the public yet they are not willing to compromise and step aside for others.
No one wants to answer these two fundamental questions:
1. Despite the rhetoric of removing President Hakainde Hichilema and UPND from power, what really is the shared Economic, Political and Social agenda we want to push for Zambia?
2. Who among us posses the best leadership attributes and is the best suited candidate to lead and win us the 2026 elections?
Instead, we see individuals in the media advancing their own ambitions while presenting it as alliance-building. There is no clear, agreed vision. No transparent process on how to choose who should lead the alliance; just quiet competition and public posturing.
Let’s be honest: you cannot build unity with people who are unwilling to be led; If everyone insists on leading and no one is prepared to step aside, then unity becomes nothing more than an illusion.
This is why the opposition remains fragmented—not because unity is unattainable, but because sincerity is lacking.
Until leaders are willing to place the collective above personal ambition, these repeated “calls for unity” will remain hollow.
Zambians are watching. And they can tell the difference between genuine efforts to unite and MANYENGWE!
We have up to May 22 to make the right decision.
Antonio Mourinho Mwanza
DPP President
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Great piece—insightful, well-structured, and genuinely engaging. I especially appreciated the clarity of your perspective and how you made complex ideas easy to understand and follow.
First and foremost, contestants forget that God does not need Binoculars or indeed microscope to search for the true motive seating at the bottom of everyone’s heart.
You may pretend, but remember that God created multiple creatures in single pronouncements and that He already knows who can sit on the Zambian Presidency.
God did his part, he gave Zambians a glimpse of the chaos that would come with having certain people in power.
Now it is upto Zambians to genuinely reflect and make the correct decision.
Remember that we all learn from our mistakes and only those with defective, spontaneous or deliberate decision making tendencies will want to ignore the positive changes made by the UPND Government.
IT WOULD BE CHAOTIC TO DECIDE TO RETURN TO THE CRIMINAL ELEMENTS OF THE FORMER RULING PARTY.
ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH PF, WEATHER DOCTOR OR CLERGY HAD ONE THING IN COMMON WITH THE THIEVING, DIVISIVE, MURDEROUS DRIVERS OF THE PF.
THEY SHAMELESSLY FIRED PEOPLE PERCEIVED AS ENEMIES BECAUSE OF THEIR TRIBES.
WE DO NOT WANT THAT TO ARISE AGAIN IN THIS COUNTRY.
LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THEIR SPEECHES AND PICK OUT THEIR INTENDED GOAL-TO REMOVE UPND AND HH! FOR WHAT REASON? EVEN THEY THEMSELVES KNOW DEEP DOWN THEIR GEARTS THAT ALL THEY WANT IS ANOTHER GOAL AT THE TREASURY.
ZAMBIANS ARE SAFER IN THE HANDS OF HH AND THE UPND, MAKE NO MISTAKE.