PF Spokesperson, Given Lubinda told ZANIS in an interview today that by 17: 00 hours, the close of the nomination time, the Town Clerk only announced the PF candidate as the sole valid candidate as the MMD had allegedly not settled on which candidate to field.
Mr. Lubinda said confusion in the MMD camp arose during the nomination exercise last Wednesday when the MMD fielded two candidates to contest the Chilyapia ward by-election.
He said according to the laws of Zambia, candidates not announced after filing in of nominations are deemed unfit for election hence the ECZ should declare the PF candidate victor by virtue of being unopposed.
“The MMD filled in two candidates but the town clerk did not announce who was picked between the two, but he only announced the PF candidate so that makes it illegible for MMD to stand for this ward by-election. And if they decide to run the by-election what will ECZ put on the ballot papers because there is only one candidate who was announced ” he said.
Mr. Lubinda has since challenged the ECZ and Mansa Town Clerk to declare the PF candidate as Councilor for Chilyapia ward.
He warned that failure for them to do so will result in the party taking legal action against the ECZ and Mansa Town Clerk.
Meanwhile, the Patriotic Front (PF) has accused the MMD in Mushinka ward in Mansa Central constituency of buying voters cards in the area ahead of the ward by-election.
PF Spokesperson Given Lubinda said the PF had allegedly caught MMD cadres in Mushinka ward with voters cards bought from people in the area in a bid to influence the by-election outcome.
Mr. Lubinda said the PF has since written to the police command in Mansa on the matter.
ZANIS
Sounds good. On “PF Spokesperson Given Lubinda said the PF had allegedly caught MMD cadres in Mushinka ward with voters cards bought from people in the area in a bid to influence the by-election outcome. Mr. Lubinda said the PF has since written to the police command in Mansa on the matter.” this is why President B. Obama had to lecture us Africans in Ghana on behaving well if we have to receive meaningful foreign investment. But our MMD leaders are a total let down to all humanity.
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Psalm 119 + KJV Bible:
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
DISHONESTY is their brand name.
ECZ honor the law,if that is what the law says then honour it.Wow! mansa that is where my parents and my only sister are.Why by-election did the Mp for the consittuency died?
Maestro
please highlight me.
Am very ashamed that I ever contributed to the formation of MMD. It has come to the quickest route to illgotten riches.
point of correction maestro obama did not say that -good governance and democracy are pre requisities to development .he did not say to receive funding we must behave well .no .it is for our own good .he insisted on africa realising the promise africa made thru our forefathers inthe liberation era .there was no plea then for donor funding .we had the resources ,we still have the resources.
5 fumbi greetings, your overzealousness on my “this is why President B. Obama had to lecture us Africans in Ghana on behaving well if we have to receive meaningful foreign investment. But our MMD leaders are a total let down to all humanity is not taking you anywhere following your misplaced “point of correction maestro obama did not say that -good governance and democracy are pre requisities to development .”
Re-read my submission and save yourself embarrassment, my friend.
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Psalm 119 + KJV Bible:
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
matworld the elections are for the councillor .
whatever, tired of zambian politics. democracy my foot.
3 Matworld greetings. On your “Why by-election did the Mp for the consittuency died?” The elections are for a Councillor and not MP please. A councillor represents are ward as in this case Chilyapia ward.
As for by-election, I am not aware as to whether the former councillor died or just resigned from his/er political party in turn causing the seat to be vacant. I hope LT will beef up on this one, so that there is clarity on what happened on the ground. Did you meet the Physicist?
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Psalm 119 + KJV Bible:
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy…
maestro,maestro ,maestro .you call that a submission and writting of embarrassment .you must have a superiority complex .i know what you wanted to say ,but i do not want you to misinform the public .stick to quoting HH who in any case may not even have said the things you write
Fumbi and Maestro.
Greetings my dear ones.
Thank you so much for he information.
Can someone educate me on this issue of buying voters cards. How does it give someone an adavantage, I mean do people remove the photo of the cad-holder and put somebody’s there or they withhold the cards not to be used in the election? I really don’t understand the mechanism of rigging when cards are purpoted to have been bought by a party.
11 Matworld you are very welcome and take care my fellow Citizen. I will continue writing what all readers need to read and not what they want to read from me.
Later for it is time to go to lunch and then continue doing National duties.
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Psalm 119 + KJV Bible:
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
Musososha is another Teta. He is corrupt in everything. He does not fit current politics.
Koma Maestro mukali kwena!
Police in Lusaka have arrested Post newspaper news editor Chansa Kabwela.
Mrs Kabwela has been charged with circulating obscene material.
She has been released on police bond.
Her Lawyer Sam Mujuda told journalists that Ms Kabwela will appear in court tomorrow (Tuesday).
The allegations are that Kabwela has in her possession pictures that were circulating on the Internet of a mother in childbirth.
If convicted, Ms Kabwela faces five years in prison or a fine.edited
Sh1t! Mr. Quotations is here.
Your comments are not impressive. Try to be original and type your own sh1t. Stop copying and pasting.
#1 MAESTRO, MY EXPERIENCE WITH ELECTIONS DISPUTES, CLAIMS AND COUNTER CLAIMS IS THAT OUR BIGGEST DEFECT AS AFRICANS IS LACK OF INTEGRITY. IF YOU WERE TO INVESTIGATE THE ACCUSATIONS OF VOTE BUYINGON THE GROUND IN MUSHINKA WARD IN MANSA, YOU WOULD FIND THAT IT IS ALL JUST RUMOURS AND RUBBLE ROUSING. IT IS ALWAYS SO ANNOYING. IT ARISES FROM OUR POVERTY AND THE TENDENCY TO BE FANATICAL AND TO RUN TO THE MEDIA WITHOUT THE WHO, WHERE, WHAT AND WHEN IE THE FACTS. THERE ARE ALWAYS OBSERVERS AT THIS ELECTIONS AND THEY ARE INDEPENDENT. BUT RUBBLE ROUSERS ALWAYS CHOOSE TO REPORT TO THE MEDIA AND NOT TO THE OBSERVERS WITH FACTS. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU ASK FODEP ABOUT THE BUYING OF VOTERS CARDS, THEY WILL NOT HAVE RECEIVED ANY OFFICIAL REPORT.
Good move Lubinda. Sue them if they act otherwise. We are tired of these thieves. REVOLUTION 2011.
Where are the weekend pics people???
GIVEN LUBINDA-THOSE ARE MEN!
#17 Nkole WAMAPEMBWE, would that explain that even vote buying is not there but just it is just an assertion of creating a reason to loot when people lose elections? I requested for an explanation on the mechanisms involved in rigging elections when “voters’ cards are bought”.
When are we going to mature like Ghana where an opposition leader wins presidential elections? ECZ should lead by example if thats what the law says. If the position of Councillor is leading to vote-buying,then MPS & Presidential ones in 2011 will mean bloodshed.It will take monkeys to teach us pure democracy.These greedy leaders must accept defeat .If they cannot accept now ,2011 will mean confusion.
# 12, Dongo Na Sundu, people buy voters’ cards from the other oppositions’ would be voters. By so doing they defranchise members of the opposition. It is the tactic of making sure the opponent’s votes are reduced.
We most of the times blame the politians especially those in the rulling party, but the biggest problem is with the voters especially the rural illiterate voters! This one man one vote thing is not fair. We need to design a weighted system that takes care of education, economic size and other crital variables so that even if they buy the votes as they are doing now in a general election they should count less!
#23 WE CAN, How convinient. So the MMD has a machine which detects who is a voter for the opposition, then MMD goes and convince the cardholders to sell tMMD their cards which the MMD withholds thereby reducing votes in favour of opposition. So it has never occured that even MMD would reduce the number of votes in their favour just in case someone was going to have a change of heart to vote for them at the very last minute. Well, ba WE CAN, I’ve heard of that explanation but it is cheap in that it is skewed at leaving out opposition party’s from doing the same. Or are we assuming opposition are too clean not to engage in that practice but they can afford to buy chibuku and ifitenge? I am sure even the opposition laugh at themselves on such an excuse coz it doesn’t advantage any side
# 24,tightjeanszambia, I agree with you. The indiscriminate giving of the right to vote to everyone has not helped us. This is because most Zambians are illiterate and cannot make national decisions such as “voting wisely” for a national leader. This is the biggest thorn we have in our flesh of democracy- lack of education. We must define our democracy in a more helpful manner.
I for one believe that only educated people – at least up to college level – should be allowed to vote and only educated people should assume national leadership positions.
This voters card buying is all crap by opposition. Who said if I am PF, MMD UPND then it is automatic I ll vote for the party. This is how these politicians are insulting our intelligence. In the last electons I voted for an MMD MP but for president I went for Miyanda. So this noise about vote buying is all nonsense and it is not helping us. And since when did PF become police officers. In chingola they beat an innocent man who had cut out a ticked news paper ballot saying he has already cast ballot for RB.
#26, Dongo Na Sundu, That is really the explanation, however absurd! . The buyer will normally do so at beers. He asks people who they support and then offer to buy their cards if they are for the opposition. The poor uneducated villagers will easily get the money or beer for their cards. It is open for both the opposition and ruling parties! I have never head any better explanation than this.
Rigging rigging……. a voters card is a card that gives citizen the right to vote. On the card there is no identity to show that you belong to any political party. WHen a card is stole/bought or otherwise find in wrong hands, any person can use it to vote for a candindates of their choice hence reducing the gap on thee oponent.
I HAVE LOT OF RESPECT FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY TALENTS OF BARRACK OBAMA AND I BELIEVE HE HAD GOOD REASONS FOR VISITING GHANA, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE GATE OF NO RETURN WHERE SLAVES WERE SHIPPED FROM TO THE NEW WORLD. THIS DOOR OF NO RETURN HAS GREAT SIGNIFICANCE FOR ALL AFRICANS BUT MORE ESPECIALLY FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO ARE A SPECIAL CONSTUTUENCY FOR OBAMA. THERE IS ALSOTHE QUESTION OF OIL. HE IS ALREADY CAMAPAIGNING. AS FOR THE HISTORY OF GHANA, I REMEMBER THAT NKURUMAH WAS OVER THROWN IN 1966 BY THE CIA USING THE MILITARY IN GHANA. AFTER THAT GHANA WENT INTO CONVULSIONS IN WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE DIED INCLUDING FORMER PRESIDENTS WHO WERE KILLED PUBLICLY BY FIRING SQUAD ON THE BEACH. IT IS NOT A HISTORY TO BE PROUD OF. BUT THEY HAVE CHANGED GOVERNMENT PEACEFULLY TWICE. I SALUTE THEM FOR IT
Kwena ba MMD nabapwa
18/30 ba-NKOLE WAMAPEMBWE UMFWE MILANDU greetings and thanks for your “#1 MAESTRO, MY EXPERIENCE WITH ELECTIONS DISPUTES, CLAIMS AND COUNTER CLAIMS IS THAT OUR BIGGEST DEFECT AS AFRICANS IS LACK OF INTEGRITY“. I hope this is the real case in the Mansa issue. I will wait upon the Police to give a stance over this matter although the Zambia police’s conduct has been put to question in the recent news.
The problem is that the MMD leadership doesn’t condemn such acts even if they are claims.
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Psalm 119 + KJV Bible:
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy…
Just a suggestion, could some journalist(s) ask President RB Banda to give his views on US Pressident Barrack Obama’s message in Ghana. Since President Obama is just about the age of president HH, leader of the UPND-PF PACT, I hope I will not read about the word insults from a son should such an interview take off.
These are difficult times for the MMD GRZ but there is life even in the opposition if they will be removed from governing Zambia.
Have a blessed day all.
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Psalm 119 + KJV Bible:
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
what P>O>R>N>O graphic guys ? Can smeone help the rest of the nation to educate about this so called P>O>R>N>O graphic
that was truely good picture so that the national the truth and what is happening in most places of Zambia why should we keep quiet when something is wrong? Gal look out for more pictures so that these learn a lesson