PF Campaign Machinery Shakes Up Chongwe
The Patriotic Front campaign machinery moved into Sylvia Masebo’s Chongwe Constituency to shake an area she has long considered a given stronghold.
During the well attended rally President Edgar Lungu apologized on behalf of the party to the people of Chongwe for having sent Japhen Mwakalombe into the diplomatic service after he bequeathed a seat he had won to Masebo in the aftermath of the 2011 elections.
Mwakalombe has bounced back as the PF parliamentary candidate with a familiar face in Geoffrey Chuumbwe contesting the council chairmanship position.
President Lungu was introducing PF candidates that also include 19 candidates for councillorship.
He also took on his strongest opponents in the August 11 elections in UPND’s Hakainde Hichilema and his running mate Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba that he labelled a confused pair.
President Lungu warned Zambians to be wary of wife batterers who may end up leading the country in the event of a Head of State dying.
“Think very carefully about the people that you want to elect to power. We in the PF thought very carefully about our choice for running mate because in the event that I died God forbid the country will be very safe in the hands of madam Wina (Inonge),” he said.
“Now if you elect HH and he dies have you imagined who is going to be President?”
He said the UPND top leadership was so confused that they gave different messages on the same subject.
“They are confused GBM says you will be buying maize and K50 while HH says K120. Imagine from the same party another one says Lungu has no money now and is failing to campaign while the other one says that he is so rich now that he is campaigning with helicopters,” he said.
President Lungu said the same people that repeatedly abused late Michael Sata as a President without a plan were now claiming they will follow his legacy.
“They were calling him Chimbwi no Plan when he was alive. What do they know about him? Why should we allow them to abuse his legacy?” he said.
The Head of State also rebutted the UPND campaign mantra of saying they will fix the economy.
“What are they going to fix when you know that you can only fix something which is broken,” he said.
A litany of speakers queried Masebo’s political stability having been in Zambia Republican Party in 2001 and later MMD in 2006 before being on the PF roster in 2011 with her latest shift being a UPND member.
President Lungu will on Thursday hit Rufunsa and then head to Luangwa on Friday before his campaign meeting in Kafue on Saturday where he is introducing the ruling party candidates.
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