Leave GBM alone, Copperbelt MMD tells PF

MMD Copperbelt  Information and Publicity Secretary Peter Phiri has told the Patriotic Front (PF) to come up with a more intelligent campaign strategy and message than “bore” the whole nation with their attacks on UPND Vice President for administration, Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba, who is Hakainde Hichilema’s running mate.

Phiri has advised the PF to instead focus on their own running mate Inonge Wina and ask her to remove the controversy surrounding the Barotseland Agreement and tell her to release the Roger Chongwe Commission of Enquiry report, on which thousands of taxpayer’s money was wasted, which the PF swept under the carpet.

Phiri has also challenged the PF running mate to begin her campaign by explaining her position on the Lozi group which has been agitating to break away from Zambia an form a new state, thereby threatening to bring confusion to the nation.

He has urged the PF  to engage in high quality issue-based political debate rather than have entire senior members of the party like Dora Siliya and Chishimba Kambwili dwell so much on GBM instead of offering solutions on real issues that are affecting the people such as the loss of jobs on the Copperbelt, the escalating prices of food especially mealie meal and the deteriorating exchange rate which is causing biting inflation.

He said the PF should know that the choice of a running mate  in any party is the prerogative of that party’s president and the PF cannot be allowed to pre-occupy the whole nation on GBM and instead should admit to the nation that they have run out  of meaningful campaign  messages for this year’s elections beyond the  ‘sonta po’ message.