STOP PLAYING GAMES, TELL US IF YOU WANT LUNGU BACK, DAVIES CHAMA TELLS LUBINDA AND GROUP
PATRIOTIC Front national chairperson Davies Chama has told the Given Lubinda-led group to stop playing hide seek about former president Edgar Lungu’s position in the party.
Chama said if Lubinda and group had decided to bring back the former president, they should come out in the open and inform the general party membership.
He complained that two years after Lubinda was put in charge to convene a general conference to elect a new president, the former Kabwata member of parliament had failed lamentably.
“The resolution to go for the conference was made in 2021, two years done the line and we are going into third year and we have not achieved that objective.”
“For me if you are supposed to assess someone based on the KPI, key point indicators you have failed. Given Lubinda has failed,” he said.
Chama therefore urged Lubinda to reflect on his leadership and make the moral decision to step aside.
Chama said even the money that had been raised to facilitate the hosting of the general conference had been squandered.
“The K1.8 million that was raised so that we can have a conference, that money is gone, it was spent. (even) the money raised to build the party secretariat, the headquarters it’s gone.”
“And when you talk you are seen to be distabalising the party,” he added.
Questioned about who had spent the money, Chama declined to provide specifics, saying, “You ask them.”
Reacting to the announcement of his suspension from the party, Chama said he had been suspended for pushing for a general conference.
Chama, along with Matero member of parliament Miles Sampa and two other party lawmakers were suspended from the party on charges of indiscipline during a central committee meeting on Sunday.
In an interview with #Kalemba, Chama said party members’ growing frustration with the delay in holding a party convention to elect a new president.
Chama also advised Lubinda to be straightforward about former president Edgar Lungu’s intentions for the 2026 general elections, rather than playing games and urged him not to keep party members in the dark.
He said if the party wanted Lungu back, the leadership must come out in the open and say it public instead of playing “hide and seek” with adults.
“Don’t play games with the members of the party you just have to make an announcement that we are going with president Lungu
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