Former Patriotic Front (PF) Southern Province coordinator Opper Hamiyanze has said PF vice-president Guy Scott’s negative comments on United Party for National Development’s (UPND) loss in the Luena by-election is a sign of lack of confidence in the pact.
And Mr Hamiyanze has revealed that UPND youths in Monze were planning to ditch the party to join the ruling MMD because they were disappointed with their leader, Hakainde Hichilema’s insistence to stay in the pact.
Mr Hamiyanze said the confusion in the pact was visible to everyone as confirmed by Dr Scott’s remarks.
Dr Scott had alluded to the fact that his party scooped the Chifubu parliamentary by-election seat single-handedly which Mr Hamiyanze said sent the message that the PF was more popular than the UPND.
Mr Hamiyanze said in an interview in Lusaka that the confusion in the pact was anticipated and justified and that it could not work.
“The comments by Dr Scott shows that there is confusion in the pact and it was highly anticipated from the beginning. Mr Sata cannot work with HH because both are greedy. The best that the two leaders can do now is to agree to break up because they will not be able to work together,” he said.
He said Zambians had lost trust in the pact because of its lack of commitment and focus for the betterment of all Zambians.
“The two leaders don’t offer solutions to the problems of the country but only want to enrich themselves,” he said.
He said the MMD had remained on track in the quest to achieve various developmental targets especially in reducing poverty.
He challenged Dr Scott to check his party’s performance in the Kaoma and Chadiza ward by-elections where they lost to the MMD.
He said Dr Scott who is Lusaka Central Member of Parliament had failed to deliver in his constituency.
“He is more vulnerable because even with the CDF funds the opposition MP has failed to perform let alone to account for the use of the funds and he will lose his seat next year,” he said.
On the Monze youths, he said the youths want to leave the UPND and had decided to join the MMD because Mr Hichilema has failed them, and that they would seek an audience with Vice-President, George Kunda.
[ Times of Zambia ]
Mr Hamiyanze, have I missed something here you claim to be PF but all your concern is about UPND youths. Kindly inform us on your position and that of the PF youth under your brilliant and able stewardship.
thumb up for Hamiyanze,I concur with your analysis bwana.for sure the PACT is non starter due to the selfishness of the two leaders.Its good tat these two leaders have ruined their political career.The only hope for now is ADD Milupi and the very usual MMD.
Ililonga slams pact
UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) losing candidate Muyunda Ililonga has urged his party to reconsider its electoral pact with the Patriotic Front (PF), saying their partners are insincere.
Mr Ililonga in an interview with the Daily Mail said the electoral pact was formed because none of the two political parties could win presidential elections if they run as individual parties.
He said it was not true that the PF was more popular than the UPND, because the Michael Sata-led opposition party has also lost parliamentary by-elections since the formation of the pact.
“The pact was created out of the understanding that none of the parties could win (presidential) elections alone. We have to work together to defeat the MMD. But the way the PF is conducting itself, I don’t see this happening,” Mr Ililonga said.
He said the idea of defeating the MMD as a united front might not work as the pact could break up due to the PF’s conduct of criticising their partners publicly.
Mr Ililonga said the UPND was more popular than the PF in Western Province and his defeat by Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) Charles Milupi does not change this.
He said prior to his adoption, a fact-finding mission of senior PF and UPND officials went to Luena and they established that the UPND was more popular in the area.
“Our losing the elections doesn’t mean that the PF is more popular than the UPND, there were other political dynamics at play. The PF would have also lost if they contested the elections,” Mr Ililonga.
He said Luena is just one constituency which cannot define the alleged waning popularity of the UPND in Western Province as alleged by PF vice-president Guy Scott in his weekly column in The Post.
Mr Ililonga said the fact that PF president Michael Sata supported Dr Scott’s sentiments calls a serious reflection of their electoral pact with the PF.
“The manner in which Guy Scott commented on our loss doesn’t reflect partnership.
It shows that he is a rival rather than a partner. It’s up to our party leadership to seriously reflect if they want to continue with the pact,” Mr Ililonga said.
He said as members of the UPND, they have started doubting whether the PF was a true partner.
“It’s repugnant to the UPND that a vice-president of an ally political partner could analyse issues in such a manner. I foresee a lot of problems based on (Dr) Scott’s analysis, especially that Mr Sata supported it,” Mr Ililonga said.
He said political partnership should be based on mutual respect and understanding.
Mr Ililonga said elections were about winning and losing and UPND has not criticised PF where they have been defeated.
Mr Ililonga said the UPND has won parliamentary by-elections in Solwezi and Mufumbwe, including a number of ward elections, surprisingly the PF has not made any comment.
He said the UPND has shown more respect to the pact than PF.
According to Mr Ililonga the UPND suspended their member who unilaterally decided to contest ward elections in Chimwemwe in Kitwe, but the PF allegedly took no action against their member who committed a similar offence in Kaoma.
He said the PF needs to conduct itself in good faith if the pact is to live up to its expectations.
opper hamiyanze pipo may call you names but the good thing is you call a spade a spade nota big fork. let the rest bury their head in sand. yes you were pf member but that didnt stop you from airing your views. this pact is a blessing to MMD.
nice muyunda, we know you are not a fool like HH and the other Tonga chickens who cannot speak out aginst this useless snake satana
Our politics are not about service but full time “employment” that is why see all arguments are laced with so much hate,like racism you cannot move the nation forward through tribalism!
The PF can not win the election alone and sata will die of depression when he looses for the 4th time
I am for te idea that the pact should be disbanded on those grounds since pf hooligans think they are popular..we shall show them in 2011…UPND please pull out and let sata go it alone and he will never rule!! about the UPND youths ditching the party..those are lies and u will waste ur money ..
A message to HH. It is good that the PF has shown its true colors before 2011 because if it had not done so, with the 98% vote southern province would have given the PF, it would have devasted HH so much after elections when he is appointed minister of social welfare soon after which he would be fired. As things are RB will go through thanks to PF arrogance. The PF has gotten too confident too soon. Wise Zambians especially from Southern, Western, North Western provinces and also those resident in Lusaka and copperbelt won’t vote just for the sake of change. We are wise voters. The only reason we supported the pact was for the fact that HH and his team would command some influence in the government but it is evident that Sata’s arrogance wouldl continue even after being voted into…
It is also evident that the PF does not consider the UPND a contributing partner but an opportunist. They think they already hold the keys to state house.
Following the “Former National Energy Sector and Allied Workers Union (Nesawu) secretary general Yotamu Mtayachalo said many people had rejected the clause… degree clause was going to disadvantage many Zambians at the moment because not everyone had access to education… removal of the clause also dispelled accusations it was aimed at impeding the rights of PF president Michael Sata to stand for presidency” as reported by Times of Zambia in an item entitled “Zambia: Scott’s remarks show pact is doomed — Hamiyanze“, I am of the view that the UPND should stick around in the PF-UPND PACT so that it ditches PF at the right time which may be when Mr PF/Sata MC is elected as a 2011 PACT presidential candidate.
For now, let HH concentrate on campaigning.
Be blest…
On ‘“It’s repugnant [or infact arousing disgust or aversion] to the UPND that a vice-president of an ally political partner could analyse issues in such a manner. I foresee a lot of problems based on (Dr) Scott’s analysis, especially that Mr Sata supported it,” Mr [UPND losing Luena MP candidate Muyunda] Ililonga said‘ in an article entitled Ililonga slams pact reported in the Zambia Daily Mail, I serious welcome Mr Ililonga’s comment and urge the UPND Team to carry out a national feasibility study on its members’ position about staying in the PACT.
This is because it will be cardinal for the mighty UPND Team to ditch the PF-UPND PACT in the next 2 months so that wa can concentrate on selling HH as 2011 presidential candidate to the Nation under UNPD…
On ‘“The comments by Dr Scott shows that there is confusion in the pact and it was highly anticipated from the beginning. Mr Sata cannot work with HH because both are greedy. The best that the two leaders can do now is to agree to break up because they will not be able to work together,” he [Opper Hamiyanze] said,” it is sad that Mr Opper Hamiyanze is indicating that PF through its vice-appointed-by-Sata-MC-leader Guy Scott is insincere but includes focussed UPND elected-president HH as being greedy. This is pure nonsense.
I would also like to remind Zambians that PF spokesperson Given Lubinda is alleged to have said in 2006 triparite elections time that under an unlikely event that HH wins the Presidency of Zambia, he cant work in HH GRZ“.
Be blest.
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Matt…
On ““What Sata wants to show is that UPND members are second class. They are saying HH is riding on the popularity of Mr Sata. Why did HH go and make a pact with Sata,” he [Minister of Justice, Vice-President, George Kunda] said” in an article by the Times of Zambia entitled “Sata’s lazy — Veep” I think Hon MP George Kunda is 100% right and HH with the rest of the mighty UPND Team must quickly reposition themselves in the PF-UPND PACT to make sure they settle for nothing less than HH being the 2011 PF-UPND PACT presidential candidate failure to which the PACT has to be ditched when the right time comes.
I want to assure the UPND members and sympathisers that now is the time to believe that the might UPND can win any election in Zambia without the help of PF…
Number 11 if there are Tonga chickens, what are you??? You are such a stupid tribalist so shallow minded that you can’t see beyond your desparate thieving tribe.
No.11 and 21, why are you quarreling. Did a manifesto fail between you two
wel,as for me I would rather be called a tribalist than a thief,afterall tribalism ,racism have been/are practiced world over. besides its not a sin to be tribalist coz BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER.
But hey..! to be a thief is forbidden by the Almighty. Therefore ,let thieves go to hell while tribalism ar blessed for protecting wat is theirs.
#23 you are so cheap and shallow minded. Which God do you worship that condones tribalism and racism? Too litttle knowledge is as poisonuos as too much.