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Emmanuel Chenda switches sides to join Edgar Lungu camp

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Local Government Minister Emmanuel Chenda (l), Vice President Dr. Guy Scott (c) and PF National Chairperson for Elections Silvier Masebo (r) during the courtesy call at Chief Mutondo’s palace in Kaoma District, Western Province
FILE: Local Government Minister Emmanuel Chenda (l), Vice President Dr. Guy Scott (c) and PF National Chairperson for Elections Silvier Masebo (r) during the courtesy call at Chief Mutondo’s palace in Kaoma District, Western Province

Local Government and Housing Minister Emmanuel Chenda has switched sides to rally behind PF President Edgar Lungu.

This follows a reconciliation meeting held at the PF Secretariat in Lusaka on Monday in the evening.

In an interview with ZNBC News, PF Secretary General, Davies Chama says the reconciliation is a demonstration that the PF is a democratic party.

MR Chama says the Party is eagerly waiting to reconcile with Dr Scott because he is a father of the PF.

Lusaka Province Minister, Philip Kosamu has also reconciled with Mr Lungu after attending the meeting witnessed by Cabinet Ministers, their Deputies, MPs and Members of the Central Committee- MCC.

Mr. Chama has told ZNBC that this an affirmation that people have now been convinced that Mr Edgar Lungu is PF President.

He has also praised members of the party for their contribution during the campaign trail.

Mr Chama says the PF will adhere to the directive by Acting President GUY SCOTT to avoid any attempts of using Government resources for campaigns.

76 COMMENTS

  1. An what is next? Daniel Munkombwe (Politics of the Belly) will state that he secretly wanted Edgar Lungu to win the PF election! Look, Mr. Chenda, character is like pregnancy- It eventually shows!

  2. Mr. Chenda has done the right thing. Its clear now that PF is fully rallying behind Edgar Lungu-a formidible force indeed. The opposition should put emotions aside and team up, otherwise they will lose this election. HH may face a revolt in his party when he loses the election next month.

  3. PF was buried on 11/11/14,
    Lungu has no vision of his own,
    Sampa is miles away,
    The only hope for Zambia is HH.
    If you think Vodga Lungu is the right man then let’s have live TV debates to discuss their plans for Zambia
    Viva Flight HH2015

    • You hypocrite !! …how many times have you heard and received visions from aspiring Presidential candidates since 1991 and seen them come to pass ! nothing but empty promises and now we have a true leader in Edgar Lungu who does not want to take Zambians for fools by talking a lot of lies and empty promises but is only sincere in being a Man of Action once he’s in and carry own unfinished projects until 2016 ! you are calling him names ! Stop it !! and grow up!

      Viva! Edgar Lungu !!

    • Which VISION??? there NO vision to talk about by anyone here the budget for 2015 has already been made and presented to parliament.

    • Sammy Bwalya
      You have admitted that EL does not have a vision. Lol
      To you and your buddies, a leader needs no vision?

      Are you munthus listening to yourselves?

      The grade one definition of a leader is, “one with the vision.”

      Imwe ati iyayi, mtsogoleli siafunika kunkala na vision. Really???

      Mtsogoleli opanda vision azasogolela cani?

  4. True now pf is very strong ,hh chances are now no more at all ,the confusion that locked pf simz its over unit has emerged viva real democracy.

    • That is a point, a vision somebody budget is not possible. Only the opposition can speak of vision.
      Edgar can speak of collective vision in form roads, hospitals, clinics, schools etc which is reality and everyone is seeing it. All he needs to do is to complete he before he start others things.
      Remember, what happened to CHILUBA when he abandoned KK’s vision for Zambia.
      Unemployment and poverty went up.
      Vote wisely vote for EL

    • The dust has settled and the PF (Powerful Force) family is now being felt by the UPND. HH has been misled by the so called endorsers. He should have asked why Mr. Mulongoti, the seasoned politician never endorsed him when everyone else was excited.
      The truth is, PF has delivered even beyond the belief of its worst enemies. The opposition knows for sure that at the rate PF is developing the country, they have no chance of ever governing Zambia, hence their visible desperation to discredit our humble President Edgar Lungu. Edgar is simply magical!!!

      Advise to HH: Give up and let someone else, from a “somewhere” be at the top of UPND, otherwise it will be the same story election year after election year.

  5. Dear bloggers, other than Edgar being appointed “this & that” by late president, what is his pedigree as Edgar Lungu? I am really failing to see any substance in him. May be I am dull and if so, I ask for forgiveness. Otherwise to me, he is yet again another failed project in PF. His formal employment history does not taste good either. That old man, Dr. John Phiri, to me seems he has some substance of some sort. However, without any bias, HH stands out clearly among the rest. If he wins, we are likely to reclaim our lost international respect. My further bet on HH is that if he wins, the Kwacha will suddenly rebound against hard currencies due to confidence in the market. Watch my words. By the way, I do not like that club Lungu moves with. He got it from Western Prov. I smell…

    • @mr fair play. You are very biased. Goodness you are coughing your opinion. Continue campaigning. Argue on credible issues and ideas. good analysis will cause politicians talk sensible issues and if we sink low thinking they will always be flashing useless ideas to us.

    • Take your ignorance back to your bedroom !! and wait and see destiny come to pass !!

      Make no mistake about Edgar Lungu , he is the right Man for now!!

    • @ Mr Fair Play

      Don’t waste your intelligence on Edgar Lungu’s supporters. These are the same bunch of people who killed Michael Sata and lied to the country for all these years that Michael Sata was enjoying good health, even up to just weeks before he died they continued lying to the people. Now they want to be voted back into power so that they continue lying??? When we asked them about the promises they made in 2011 they turned back to us and said “surely you didn’t think we were serious, did you?”. Edgar Lungu is a finished piece of old blanket; the chap can’t even speak a sentence. He has had 2 rallies so far, but no message. He keeps talking about finishing Sata’s vision, okay tell us about Sata’s vision – ziiiiiiiiii. Two failed rallies. HH is the man, unless you are a…

    • hmmm really.? What has HH done.? at least serving in government does count and even being acting pres, so if you have a shred of truth in you tell me what HH has achieved. Go on am waiting.

    • Not maybe, you are very dull. Where in the history of politics in Africa, & Western world have you seen or heard one man heading FOUR very strategic positions in one Government? Its only Edgar Lungu and he deserves to be given a Nobel Prize. Just in case you have chosen to forget; He was
      1. Defense Minister
      2. Justice Minister
      3. Secretary General of the Ruling Party
      4. ACTING PRESIDENT OF ZAMBIA
      One person? I don’t have to ask any further about such a man/woman just give him respect. They say don’t judge a book by its cover. This is the mistake you blind chaps in UPND made!!

      VIVA EDGAR LUNGU

  6. But Lungu shud be very careful. Chenda is very close to mmembe and winter and Scott and am sure he has been instructed by the cartel to join campaigns for strategic reasons to give info to mmembe.

    • Ika ka moba, ika!

      chew chew chew chew

      Can’t wait for el bash grande at State House. Every weekend kukolwa, no kusunda mpanga yonse! Those greens will dry up in no time. lol

  7. Too late. Bye bye PF ebola polio. We Zambians are now moving forward. Why should we have a govt of retirees above 65 years running our affairs in a country where life expectant is 40 years. Unless PF reverse the wage freeze, employment freeze, pay farmers now, release the constitution, re-introduce maize and fuel subsidies repeal the Public Order Act, and other bad vices before 20th January 2015, its bye bye for me and my entire army of friends, relatives, girl friends, prostitutes, etc, and we are more than 300,000. What a huge number!

    • All your points raised here are politics of the Stone Age. Who wants subsidies in today’s advanced high tech Age? Active citizens need to be innovators and wealthy creators and NOT cry babies. Look at young and skillful inventors of Face Book, Google (which you dear worship), Whatspp? So its you UPND chaps who are behind and think in reverse! PF is far far ahead in its strategies.

      Tiye Lungu faka mulilo fodya iliko.

  8. Go Edgar go!
    Mwanawasa never participated in the debates despite desperate pleas by the Opposition and neither did Sata. Guess what they both ruled!! The UPND will only project itself as a party with all solutions, no such thing exists anywhere in the World. So come January 21st: PF results will read as follows: Lusaka Province – Landslide; Muchinga, Eastern Luapula, Copperbelt and Northern – landslide… where doe this leave HH?? We’ll share Central and Northwestern, lose Southern and score some votes in the West. Edgar is the only one coming

  9. SORRY CANNOT VOTE FOR THIS CONFUSION CALLED PF NO AT LEAST MY CONCIENCES WILL BE FREE. THUGS, HAVE BEEN GIVEN TOO MUCH POWER, THEY BEAT ANY OPPOSING VIEW. AT DEMOCRACY WHAT A SHAME. ZAMBIA DESERVE MUCH BETTER.

    TRUTH BE TOLD IF LUAPULA VOTE PF ITS OKEY BUT WHEN ANOTHER PROVINCE SAY NORTH WESTERN VOTE UPND THEN ITS TRIBALISM. HOW CAN YOU THINK LIKE THAT. BE REAL.

    DONOT VOTE FOR DIRTY ENVIRONMENT. HIGH COST OF MEALIE MEAL, FUEL, HIGH SCHOOL FEES, VIOLENCE , CORRUPTION, AND NEPOTISM PLEASE.

    • And you bring in the issue of tribe, so that’s what you are! Its in your subconscious. Just scrutinize the composition of PF and UPND and tell me what you think. Who is tribal?
      Lungu Edgar is PF president and incoming Republican President of Zambia!!!

    • Composition of UPND – President Tonga, Vice from Eastern, Secretary General from Northern, spokesperson from Luapula. Next question Mr. Parrot.

  10. When Sata was buried on 11/11/2014 Edgar Lungu was born same day.Not a coincident mwana.Do not be ignorant about a vision;The pf has got its vision already written down in the pf constitution.Edgar does not need to reinvent the wheel because he is already part of the vision that’s why Mr Sata decorated him with so many ntepe.period

  11. I smell witchcraft. He got from a chief in Western Prov. At that age, we should be natural and not promoting witchcraft. PF is famous for strange behavior like being paranoid to bold heads. Witchcraft accounts for 15-20% of poverty levels in Zambia.

  12. PF yalibola, UPND naipya. Ushitemenwe mwana we ndoshi. HH is the man: young, sober, educated, organised, self-made successful businessman, experienced in both public and private sector, well connected, never lies to people, has an intelligent message for Zambia and has his own vision for the country (not someone else’s vision), is by far more intelligent, understands economics and the global economy, has already donated to the poor his Presidential salary in advance, has already said he won’t need to be built a retirement house because he has already built himself a better house, etc.

    Okay you Edgar Lungu demagogues, repeat what I have said above but now focus on your Edgar Lungu and you will see how suddenly the story becomes black like charcoal. Tamwakwata amaano. EL lishilu.

  13. Q: So Hon. EL, what is your education policy?

    A: Ah Ah I am not the education minister, go and ask the education minister…..

    On radio Pheonix
    this just made my day.

    we are voting for HH come 20.01.2015 bwana

    Chumbu Mulolwa
    Asp LT BB2015

    • Lungu is dull and has no vision and tolerates corruption and tolerates violence and somehow the dull PF cadres here think he is presidential material. yaba.

    • This is an excellent answer by all standards! The Minister knows his ministerial policy better! It can only be debated and not imposed! You see how dull you are imwe tu UPND!!

  14. Let us go Lungu. Lungu camp is unstoppable and I hear that HH is joining Lungu as well. Wapya baisa a Lungu ,…seleniko tubombeko imwe.

    Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.

    • Amazing, extraordinary, astonishing!! Edgar is bad news! The cartel is stripped naked and opposition shattered.

      Iyo uyu mwaume bane! EL, you have my vote. People just love you man!

  15. EL is a witch that stick he has just acquired be careful. Remember KK wamuyaya this is what we are getting into. Kumulu lesa panshi Kaunda. People are being reduced to almost nothing for EL. My spirit is not at peace with EL.

  16. I have read with sadness how most of the readers have miunderstood the concept of the VISION. Lungu is right, he cannot have a personal vision for the country. he can only have a shared national vision, a product of collective ideological legitimate expectations of the Zambians. It is there in the Vision 2030, the SNDP and actualized through the national budget as a policy lever. Anyone preaching that they have a personal vision is a liar. Additionally that vision must have an accompanying mission and should be encapsulated in core values. So imwe ba HH, Nervers etc, keep your ignorance to your semi-ileterate heads.

  17. @ Ulubunda:
    General Miyanda is roasting groundnuts in Makeni. After finishing roasting groundnuts, he will eat them and he will go to bed and sleep and wake up after 20th Jan 2015. That is the general we know. No pressure. Everything is lukewarm.

  18. If you would like to know whether Lungu is presidential material or not, ask yourself a question: if he loses these elections, can he hold PF together and bounce it back in 2016 or 2021? Once you answer this question, you have unbiasly rated Lungu.

    • Unfortunately this is a lunatic question and our policy doesn’t allow answering lunatics lest we are mistaken for one!!

  19. Chenda is PF. The differences they have are family matters.

    All we need is one presidential Candidate from each political party.

  20. Of all the candidates standing in January 2015 elections, Edgar is the worst of them all. A fact known by all PF supporters especially on this blog. The so called reconciliation is as a result of panic due to flight HH2015 which is unstopable. Chenda is not a factor just like Shamenda and Sichinga.

  21. Flight HH2030, Hakayi Votela Umwine not ripe for Presido now probably 2030. Continue measuring your cattle using your hand. Viva Lungu

  22. Where is the so called economic manager? His supporters are disgusting to say the least. Run out of lies hey?

    Viva Edgar ifintu ni Edgar

  23. Even Rupiah Banda at his age is a lot lot better than than Lungu for sure. He is not his own but a front for thieves, crooks and swindlers. Nsanda has broken into his own office to destroy evidence.

  24. Just in case Edgar Lungu wins 2015, how is he going to control the cadres that have literally installed him as PF party president? Do Zambians want to be ruled by Cadres and Corrupt ridden chaps who are behind funding of his campaigns?

  25. GUD MOVE WE ARE BEHIND YOU GUYS.MASEBO AND SCOT COME BACK ALSO AND RE ENFORCE THE WINNING TEAM.
    VIVA EDGA LUNGU
    PF ……………P F COME 2015 JAN……………….

  26. @ Mike: the Zambia Police Service will certainly be reporting to cadres if Lungu wins. Land grabbing will come back. Plot owners will be evicted in broad daylight by cadres. Certainly the God I pray to will not allow this to happen. Can you imagine the likes of Nsanda being in charge of this country. Did you see how he kissed the boxer when she was still gasping for air? The whole of her mouth was swallowed hook and sink and she was gasping in his lungs. Such are the people who are aspiring to be our leaders. God forbid.

  27. Chenda like almost all Zambian politicians has no principles and is in the political arena for personal benefit. It is therefore not surprising that he has easily reconciled with Lungu whose ascendency to the PF Presidency is one of the worst examples of political hooliganism in Zambian history.

  28. This is good news. This PF intra party fighting is not good for the party but for the opposition. Reconciliation works for the benefit of the party. Reconciliation is neither weakness nor opportunism. In intra- party democracy, there is no loser nor winner. Let an olive branch be extended to every one. Let President Lungu forgive and embrace every one. Let the so called cartel group be magnanimous and join the Lungu group.VIVA PRESIDENT LUNGU. From King David.

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