TONSE ALLIANCE COUNCIL OF LEADERS MEETING: THE FACTS, NOT PROPAGANDA
Former PS Elias Kamanga shares..
Credible sources within the Tonse Alliance Council of Leaders have confirmed that yesterday’s virtual meeting, chaired by Prof. Danny Pule, commenced at 18:00 hours and ran well past 22:00 hours, with 23 members fully logged in and participating.
It is important to place facts on record.
The quorum requirement for a valid Tonse Council of Leaders meeting is 15 members plus the Chairperson. Yesterday’s meeting exceeded this threshold by a wide margin. Therefore, any attempt to label the meeting “illegitimate” is factually incorrect and an act of political6 dishonest.
Below is the verified list of constituent members and organisations that attended and participated in the meeting:
Prof. Danny Pule – CDP President & Tonse Vice Chairperson (Chair)
Mr. Chifumu Banda – Acting President, FDD
Mr. Nason Msoni – President, All People’s
Congress (APC)
Mr. Kelvin Fube Bwalya (KBF) – President, ZMP
Dr. Cosmo Mumba – President, NRP
Mr. Francis Shafwepa – Acting President, EEP
Hon. Stephen Kampyongo – PF MP & Tonse Member
Hon. Mutotwe Kafwaya – PF MP & Tonse Member
Hon. Brian Mundubile – PF MP & Tonse Member
PS Bernard Chomba – PF Tonse Member
Mr. Kennedy Chanda – Executive Director, GEI
Mr. Ibrahim Mwamba – President, SASYDA
Mr. Shadrick Mumba – President, ZAYEF
Dr. Cephas Mukuka – Former Trade Unionist
Rev. Mwape – Former Diplomat & Senior Citizen
Mr. Gregory Chisha – Executive Director, CCONLEJ
Mr. Debby Kambwa Aongola – Tonse Legal Counsel & Acting Legal Chairperson
Dr. Chris Zumani Zimba – National Coordinator & Lead Consultant
Apostle Simon Mwanza – Chairperson, Apostolic Prophetic Council
Jason Mwanza – Gen Z President
Mr. Thomas Sipalo – Comedian & Politician
Hon. Davies Mwila – PF Tonse Member
Chanoda Ngwira – Spokesperson, Umodzi Kumawa
If this does not constitute legitimacy, then one must ask: what does legitimacy look like?
The meeting was duly convened in accordance with Tonse governing instruments and
lawfully chaired by Prof. Danny Pule, who is the legally recognised leader to preside over Council of Leaders meetings in the absence of it’s Founder, President Edgar Chagwa Lungu
Consequently, all resolutions passed at this meeting are constitutionally binding on the Tonse Alliance.
What also emerged clearly from the deliberations is a growing fatigue and impatience among Alliance partners with the internal contradictions, obstructionism, and political paralysis associated with the Given Lubinda faction of the Patriotic Front.
The Alliance has made a strategic choice: to move forward—with or without PF.
From both the breadth of attendance and the diversity of organisations represented, it is evident that Tonse is consolidating, while PF as a party is still recklessly fantasizing.
Unless there is a drastic and immediate course of correction, PF as we know it, risks sliding into political irrelevance and possible oblivion beyond August 2026.
The list is suggestive. It shows all the political misfits put together. This action was a seal of failure and the Tonse is in the morgue like the founder. Please Tonse may you rest in peace never to rise again. Good bye.
Just how the following PF Officials ( Davis Mwila, Kampyongo, Mundubile, Bernard Chomba,Kafwaya and Angola) allowed the resolutions expelling PF from the Tonse Alliance is shocking. How can Mundubile and Kafwaya especially whilst being prospective PF President aspirants allow a meeting expelling the party they seek to lead from the alliance? Could it be a higher stakes betrayal of the party. If I were Bo Lubinda I would have expelled all the above forthwith for treacherous conduct.