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Elizabeth Mubukwanu of 71 years of age casting her vote at Malengwa Polling Station in Mongu Constituency of Western Province during the Presidential Elections
Zambia Air Force (ZAF) refueling the helicopter which is airlifting
ballot papers and poll staff to far flung areas at Mongu Airport in
Western Province

UPND campaign manager Dipak Patel this morning expressed concerned by the further delay to the granting of permissions for UPND helicopters to fly. He said the flight plans are an integral part of the effort to observe the election.

Mr.Patel complained that after having flight permissions revoked at the last minute yesterday and despite assurances from Acting President Guy Scott this morning that UPND would be able to resume its observation efforts this morning, ZAF had continued to delay in granting clearance with no clear reason as to why.

‘With our observers and logistics staff unable to travel to key locations during the counting and results process we find ourselves in a difficult position with regards to verifying these results as part of our PVT efforts,’ Mr Patel said

Meanwhile the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has sent a Zambia Air Force-ZAF helicopter to airlift election results from inaccessible areas in Mungwi in Malole constituency.Mungwi District Electoral officer, Gladys Lilanda confirmed the development to ZANIS in Mungwi today.Mrs. Lilanda disclosed that the ZAF chopper will collect election results from Mankungu in Mpanda ward and Kawanga in Lubala ward.Other areas are Mumba and Bwebe in Chambeshi ward.The four areas have become inaccessible by road due to floods and bad road network.

Meanwhile, election results have so far been received from 46 polling stations in Malole Constituency.The results for the 46 polling stations are being received and announced by Returning Officer Lewis Kwenda.So far PF’s Edgar Lungu has got 8,006 votes out of 9,853 cast.Mr. Lungu is followed by UPND’s Hakainde Hichilema who polled 1,231 votes.Nawikwi Edith of FDD has so far received 229 votes.MMD’s Nevers Mumba got 119 votes and Eric Chanda of 4th revolution polled 39 votes out of the 46 polling stations.

UNIP’s Tilyenji Kaunda has received 37 votes while Heritage Party’s Godfrey Miyanda has polled 35.CDP’s Daniel Pule has polled 34 votes while NAREP’s Elias Chipimo Jr. has received 32 votes.Ludwig Sondashi has polled 12 votes and Green Party’s Peter Sinkamba has so far polled 4 votes.
75 ballot papers have been rejected.Malole constituency has 58, 686 registered voters.

75 COMMENTS

    • @Mushota, point of correction, it’s not UNDP as a United Nations agency. It’s UPND, note the typo. You are attempting to raise the profile of this opposition party to a status of UN?

    • Of course. This is part of rigging. Not allowing them to have access to affected areas. Lets wait and see. Why refuse people to see what´s up?! Now i see why Edgar Coward LUngu refused to resign as a defence Minister. This, Iam afraid wont go well in Zambia. This is not 2001. Chakolwa can´t rule Zambia… no way!!!

    • Defense and security is everyone’s responsibility. Lets remain in a state of activated surveillance air and land security if we have to manage any mischievousness with precision. This is not time for some brinkmanship. Zambia remains a peaceful nation only if remain vigilant against inimical schemes of saboteurs and or shut off room for the outlawed Executive outcomes mercenaries of fortunate.

      Keep Zambia clean as prevention is cheaper than cure.

    • We can learn from Kenya’s Raila, Sierra Leone rebel group Revolutionary United Front (RUF)’s Foday Saybana Sankoh, Congo DR’s Étienne Tshisekedi, and Mozambican Renamo opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama to mention but a few that collaborated against their countries with the outlawed Dogs of War after taking heavy funding from mining Giants only to suffer historic ballot rejection to their dismay.

    • Our patriotic Defense and security outfits are selflessly doing the right thing. They must be applauded for their state of vigilance. Democracy and development will only thrive in continuous state of tranquility.

    • @ Mushota #1

      These chaps borrowed too much money from Anglo America and other financiers believing PF would disintegrate after that minor thing in Kabwe. You have seen for yourself that in Kasama Central where the self praised GBM has been walloped pants down and now Malole’s result, this is a landslide victory for Edgar Chagwa Lungu.

      Its normal to cry foul when you lose after you overrate yourself before the actual game. They won by 84% in opinion polls remember?

      Remember, its the FOURTH DEFEAT of HH in presidential elections and am sure there is an uprising within the ranks of UPND to find replacement leadership to try and win the Presidential elections in 2026.

      EL is a strategic leader and they know that he will develop Zambia beyond imagination, Viva ECL.

    • I appeal to all of you to just keep calm and carry on with your lives. These elections are over and another one will be held in 20months. ECZ will announce the official results and that its that simple. All this bickering will take us nowhere while these politicans will continue to live a life of luxury- win or lose. So why not use all this energy you spend on unproductive politics for the good of your own family and community? Don’t get sucked into the hype and let God lead.

    • ZAF Manages the Airfield, if you get shot by some ill-will foreigners then what u gonna do? Its for your own security, voting times are critical.

    • HH is winning!Results which were not being announced by ECZ. Choma Central , HH 21,921, Lungu 2145. Monze Central, HH 14,727, Lungu 1045. Siavonga HH 12,817, Lungu 1361 with a few polling stations still counting. Bweengwa HH 10,487, Lungu 79, still counting. Moomba HH 8276, Lungu 100 still counting. Livingstone Central HH 19,126, Lungu 8,363. Solwezi Central HH 14,737, Lungu 4,219. Mapatizya HH 13,849, Lungu 357. Pemba HH 13,338, Lungu 203. Mbabala HH 12,996, Lungu 126. These margins plus to come from areas where HH has won, will significantly impact the results where HH has not won.

    • Mambilima redeem yourself mama wa mano
      HHHHHH HAS WON .
      AM JUST SHOCKED HOW SHALLOW AND STUPID PF IS THEM THINK ZAMBIA IS PF ZAMBIA IS NOT AND PF IS NOT ZAMBIA.
      2011 PVT WAS USED SO WHY NOW YOU ARE SO SCARED OF IT .
      PF YOU USED THIS AGAINST MMD SO WHAT THE SHIT ARE THEY REFUSING.
      EMMANUEL MWAMBA IS ASHAMELESS MAN SO DESPERATE WITH A JOB ANNOUNCING RUBBISH THINGS.

      GIVE BACK UPND PERMISSION TO FLY THEIR CHOPPERS WHERE ARE MONITORS

    • I was hoping that UPND had officials resident in all constituencies across the country. Why fly to a polling station when you have members in the district?

    • Jojo your comment is very provocative – let your upnd chaps fly without a go ahead and they will meet their fate. Don’t just yap. Patel knows Zambia is a country with rules so if you want anarchy try and the law will visit you.

      Meanwhile Edgar keeps whooping HH left right centre. Some chaps are now finding comfort only on ZWD….hahahahahahahaha we told you…!

      Viva EL Viva PF

    • Globally that is prohibited and is called airspace violation. If you are not cleared and shot down, there is no case. Just for your info.

      Just accept that your HH has lost these elections convincingly and the world knows this.

      Viva Edgar Lungu

  1. Of course. This is part of rigging. Not allowing them to have access to affected areas. Lets wait and see. Why refuse people to see what´s up?! Now i see why Coward LUngu refused to resign as a defence Minister.

    • Just look at the numbers. Even if UPND go and monitor elections there can they in their right senses overtake PF? Why waste gas and money? Anyway, let ZAF allow them so that when the final results are announced they accept that they have indeed lost.

    • zedoc, overtake what? PF is already lagging far behind. Are you the only one failing to read between the lines? PF has lost, my friend. Imagine, to be kicked out after only 3 years. It’s all because of careless decisions at critical points in time. Condolences!

  2. Not time for brinkmanship. Lets be vigilant against inimical schemes of the outlawed Executive outcomes mercenaries of fortunate.

    • @Senior Citizen,
      Stop pretending, you are aware that each time the violent Edgar Lungu opened his mouth all he had to say is threaten certain individuals with arrests and elimination using the military and you have not said a word about it.
      Lungu on 2 occasions went out of the country without clearance to illegally solicit funding from dubious sources. Was this not compromising the security of Zambia? Sane Zambians condemned him for his foolishness and arrogance and you said nothing. Why can’t you just be quiet when you have nothing sensible to write about? Zambia is for all Zambians!

  3. Our men in uniform, please don’t involve yourselves in politics. Don’t set our country on fire by stoking unnecessary political battles. You’ve been ordered by your commander in chief Guy Scott. Obey your commander & not your indisciplined minister. Do the right thing we beg you. We don’t want strife in Zambia.

    • Flying has rules. Hh has been abusing air space. Imagne . Just for him to address UNZA students at rigdway campus he had to fly.

  4. Guy Scot and ECZ have intervened and ordered ZAF to allow UPND to fly the choppers. ZAF has since issued them a permit.

    This is how independent thinking this Muzungu can be. He wants clean election results. Whether EL or HH both of them are Zambians they should be allowed and given the freedom to do things. Thumbs up to Guy and ECZ. This is how things should be.

    • Of course – this is good news but those using these choppers must be responsible and safe guard the peace of this nation. With smart phone technology all polling station agents can send the results to their agents easily. At least people flying over polling stations will give us more confidence that nothing flew elsewhere.

  5. VJ wants to rig elections that is why they want to go round with chooper so that in their strong hold they play around with figures .who doesn’t know what VJ is specialized in

    • A defense minister does not control ZAF during presidential elections. What you are not aware of is that Edgar Lungu got a leave of absence from the speaker.

  6. No rigging. Edgar Lungu has white-washed HH. The desperate man is already citing illegality. I stated this throughout that by 12:00 he would cite illegality. We all have seen that this was a clean win. Nabakusepafye mudala.

  7. Honestly writing, there is no sane person who can vote for Vodka Lungu. To all those who voted for Vodka, if you were taken for an MRI Test, it can come out that all of you are MAD!!!

    • you are the one who is mad, who voted for a shown tribalist!! HH has never renounced tribalism at any time! He was given the UPND Presidency on tribal lines, and he never condemned the people who shouted on top the mountain that only a Tonga can succeed Mazoka! Now people who were openly saying its time a Tonga to rule were welcomed with both hands by HH with no shame!!! so those who voted for a chap like that are the ones who are mad!!!

    • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)does not measure madness but produce high quality image of the body in any plane.mind u level of madness is graded as example(if u ar 10 and 9 out of ten are dancing except 1 then the one not doing that activity is psychologically challenged.so who z mad and pliz a mad person points at normal person to b mad

    • yes I am mad I voted for Ediga Lungu at UNZA and again in 2016 I will Vote for EL. Since the majority of Zambians are mad as per your words HH-UPND, we will keep voting against HH.

    • I am very sane, healthY and successful and my family and I all VOTED for EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU, PABWATOOOOOOOOOOO.

  8. Here are the statistics from the results of the first 30 Constituencies

    TOTAL VOTES CAST – 485,588

    4R – 1,041
    NAREP – 1,689
    UPND – 168,008
    UNIP – 1,903
    PF – 302,590
    HERITAGE – 1,157
    MMD – 4,206
    FDD – 3,399
    CDP – 645
    GREEN – 376
    FDA – 574

    • The thirty constituencies included all the PF strongholds such as Lusaka and Copperbelt. This was akin to a boxer throwing their best punch, and with EL scoring 485,588, this was his best punch. At 168,008, HH stayed within the necessary distance. After that HH is now in his territory and the TIZ PVT figures of over 150,000 lead by UPN are confirmation enough. He is decimating Lungu in his territory and all the punches are now going unanswered. That is why HH has won this election notwithstanding Lungu’s early lead. The game is over and Hakainde has won by over 100,000 votes. I will explain later how this was achieved. By the way, where are the PF thugs who were all over Lusaka up to yesterday? Good night and good luck, miserable fellows.

  9. ZAMBIA IS A USELESS COUNTRY, AND WILL REMAIN USELESS AS LONG AS THE SAME LOUDSPEAKERS ARE ALLOWED TO MANIPULATE THE POLITICS OF OUR COUNTRY. THIEVES PRINTED ADSORBENT BALLOT PAPERS WITH IMPREGNATED ENZYMES SO THAT AN X MARK CAN BE ABSORBED FOR THE OPPONENT AND BE GENERATED FOR THE INCUMBENT! THIS IS ISRAELI TECHNOLOGY. THESE RESULTS HAVE BEEN RIGGED. LUNGU HAS LOST THE ELECTIONS. HE SHOULD BE PRESIDENT ONLY TO HIS FELLOW KACHASO DRUNKARDS! I PERSONALLY WILL NOT RECOGNIZE KACHASO EDGAR LUNGU AS MY PRESIDENT. CROOKS AND LOOTERS HAVE ONCE AGAIN IMPOSED THEMSELVES ON US SO THAT THEY LOOT MORE! TO HELL WITH ALL OF YOU LOOTERS. WAR IS THE SOLUTION NOW.

    • Just start your war — you will simply be killed. Period.Chamoneka kwati beatings are not working. Namutumpa sana. Just start and a bullet to the head you will get. Why don’t you want to respect wishes of people??? Please I beg you to start.

    • @Truth,
      Pipe down please, it is not the end of the world! This halucination about adsorbent ballot papers and enzymes will only tie your bowels into knots which may lead to disasterous consequences for your body. Simmer down, gently, now, and there you are!

    • U can leave this country, for all we care.
      Zambia is bigger than you…and Zambians want Edgar, if you have a problem with that, find yourself another country.

    • @(UNITED PANGAS FOR NATIONAL DESTRUCTION)TRUTH …THIS IS WHY YOU UPND AND ZWD ARE A DANGER TO ZAMBIA HOW DARE YOU SAY WAR IS THE ANSWER..YOU ARE LIVING OUTSIDE ZAMBIA SO YOU DONT CARE ABOUT ZAMBIANS..THIS IS THE SELFISH HATE SPEECH THE LIKES OF SKELETON, JESSIE WA MU TOWN, WANZELU, MEI MATUNGU, ANDERSON CHISALA, SIDO MARK, ONE HIT FLOP AND OTHER CRETINS ARE ACCUSTOMED TO VOMITING…WE WONT TOLERATE SUCH NONSENSE YOU SHOULD BE DEPORTED FROM WHERE EVER YOU ARE AND BROUGHT TO ZAMBIA TO FACE CHARGES FOR INCITING VIOLENCE…

      NOMBA NI EL2016

  10. Hafelix Himutati ……………Nevers is waiting for you for rocking his boat.

    Higeofrey Habwalya Himwamba…….The new republican President and Party president is waiting.

  11. Let us be patient.
    TIZ
    show that Edgar lungu has so far polled 485,000 against HH 168,008 out of the 30 constituencies. Most of these results are coming from PF copperbelt stronghold. These are urban areas of copperbelt.

    So UPND should be patient because there are 120 more constituencies to be considered among them their strongholds. The game is still on let us wait and see.

    • EL is already near the critical mark of 500,000 votes, and less than a million voted. So do your maths bro. We all know that Luapula, Eastern, Central and Northern Provinces have not yet been added to EL’s runaway score line. Where will the HH miracle come from?

      Listen for once imwe baiche mu UPND.

      Mmembe knows the results already, just read his comment today.

      Ifintu NI EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU

    • I still do not understand how HH can overtake EL with such a massive difference,316992(485000-168008)!!!!It’s difficult to understand but EL Is way,way gone. EL2015,try 2016,ie if you do not disintegrate.

  12. please allow them to fly so that the dont give us excuses that there has been rigging. These under 5s are too pompous for nothing. Shame on them. We told them that Lungu is 6th president but the refused strongly when they new that their HH is nothing in politics. Please allow them may be HH want to run away from embarrassment.

    Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.

  13. My prayer for Zambia is that after the elections, no matter the results, we become united as KK tried so hard for us to be. That we see political opponents as persons interested in developing the country using means we don’t necessarily agree with, and not as evil persons bent on destroying the country.

    That we agree that our diversity, including in political views, is a necessary ingredient to meaningful development. That the issue of tribalism, nepotism, racism and other such vices be treated with contempt they deserve and be weeded out of our minds.

    We as Zambian’s can be better than what we are now. If not for our own sake’s then for the sake of future generations, we ought to work at being better.

    God Bless Zambia!

  14. Gary Nkombo caught insulting Zambians when it became inevitable that the UPND had lost the election.
    Last month, Nkombo was accused on insulting Minister of Youth and Sport Chishimba Kambwili in Parliament.

    ONE EDGAR…..

    i thank you

  15. Southern Province Minister Daniel Munkombwe is again in the thick of things calling for the secession of Southern Province region from the rest of Zambia because Zambians have rejected opposition UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema in Tuesday’s Presidential election.
    Mr Munkombwe’s remarks come in the wake of Presidential election results which have not gone well to Hakainde Hichilema. Edgar Lungu of the ruling Patriotic Front Party has taken an early emphatic lead in 6 Provinces which include Copperbelt, Lusaka, Northern, Luapula, Muchinga, Eastern and part of Central Province.

    He was recently involved in tribal remarks during a UPND rally where he said it was time for a Tonga to be President of Zambia.

  16. OFFICIAL AND CREDIBLE ELECTION RESULTS UPDATE:
    How it all started in the early hours of today 21st January, 2014
    =================================================
    I have added two critical pictures here to give you detailed insights.
    PF set for victory
    Edgar Lungu’s surprise alliance with ex-President Banda – which may involve major policy compromises – should carry the day at the polls
    The presidential candidate of the governing Patriotic Front, Edgar Lungu, has surprised Zambians by joining forces with former President Rupiah Banda, whose Movement for Multiparty Democracy was defeated by the PF in the 2011 general elections. After unexpectedly being obliged to stand down as a candidate, Banda has put the MMD’s massive store of campaign materials – including four helicopters…….

  17. wat goes round comes around.Wait 4 official anouncement only than infor frm unreliable sources. Don’t look back bcoz u’re n’t going back jus-k

  18. pf cadres never stop amazing me they still think they will win UPND already have PVT results you are walloped countrywide ask Jean Kapata.

    • You can join the barotse chaps if you so wish for all we care..! Now if you are truly following the results on TIZ then you wont lie again but rather concede defeat. Edgar has got this election by the balls.

      Cry babies let us know if you want to leave Zambia becoz HH has been rejected by the majority – this is Munkombwe’s new wish apparently. But remember to go find another country.

      Good luck brothers

      Viva EL Viva PF

  19. This must be tragic for Gary Nkombo. Remember he is on record has starting that should UPND lose he will quit politics as it won’t be worthwhile to continue being in politics. With the way things are now playing l’m almost certain there is turmoil in his mind.
    It’s also widely believed that most of the UPND had gone to
    the extent of buying suits for their President’d inauguration. And HH has already drawn a list of his cabinet and already hint to some members like Gary Nkombo as a cabinet minister in waiting. This is pure comical but sad.

  20. I feel for young and arrogant Jonas Shakafunswa who believed he was going to bounce back in government using the same formula of the tribal cluster politics, only this time Flight HH has crash landed. Flight LPM was fortunate to take off because it was propelled by a cluster that was politically correct. A lession he keeps missing because of his matton head.

  21. PF guys you can now relax, eat your T-bones and drink your wines, the job is done. Well-done, now start preparing for 2016.

  22. PF friends immediately EL is declared the winner lets start preparing for 2016. Am surprised by the type of voting pattern in Southern province. One Tonga man of 56years old confessed to me that They needed prayers from well meaning ZAMBIANS because he had failed to understands how this high level of greediness and selfishness has grown among his tribesmen.Sure our friends need prayers

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