THE sister of former President Levy Mwanawasa, Evelyn, has described her nephew Patrick’s remarks against President Banda and the MMD as childish and a sign of desperation.
And the Mushili chiefdom on the Copperbelt has warned the people of Kafulafuta Constituency not to vote for Patrick because he is likely to insult their chiefs as he is doing to President Banda.
Ms Mwanawasa, who is MMD national trustee, said in a statement issued in Kitwe yesterday that Dr Mwanawasa respected President Banda and it is unfortunate that Patrick is attacking the head of State and the MMD.
She said the Mwanawasa family has resolved to support President Banda as it did in 2008.
“Patrick’s attacks on the MMD and President Banda are childish and desperate. The attacks by Patrick and those who are using him are a desperate move to gain political mileage.
“It is unfortunate that Patrick has decided, without consulting or getting advice from family members, to attack the President, whom his father (Dr Mwanawasa) respected,” she said.
She regretted that the people Patrick has embraced used to call his father names when he was alive.
And the Mushili chiefdom has warned the people of Kafulafuta Constituency not to vote for Patrick.
The establishment’s spokesperson Robert Mushili said Patrick should be mindful of Zambian tradition which demands that young people respect elders.
“We will make sure he does not become our member of Parliament in Kafulafuta because we do not want him to insult our chiefs as he is insulting President Banda,” Prince Mushili said.
He wondered how Patrick could claim that President Banda will not bring him down when he has never ascended to a position of influence.
“Patrick has never worked anywhere, he has never been a member of Parliament, councillor or branch official. So how can anyone bring him down?
“We warn the leaders of the Patriotic Front who are encouraging him to attack the President that he will turn against them and start insulting them in the future,” Prince Mushili said.
Meanwhile, the Evangelical Youth Alliance (EYA) and MMD youth wing said in separate interviews yesterday that Patrick should desist from using bad language when referring to seasoned politicians if he hopes to succeed with his political aspirations.
EYA executive director Moses Lungu said Zambians are from a cultural background which shapes the future and tradition urges young people to respect all elders.
Reverend Lungu said Patrick is irresponsible and has failed to use various opportunities because of his negative attitude and has allowed himself to be used by politicians who have an agenda to drag the president into disrepute.
And Lusaka province MMD youth vice-chairperson Watson Mtonga said it is disappointing that Patrick can entangle himself in character assassination.
Mr Mtonga said MMD youths laboured to campaign for Dr Mwanawasa in the 2008 elections, and Patrick should respect his father’s successor.
And NKWETO MFULA reports that National Initiative for Citizens Awareness president Kelvin Sampa said Patrick is being used by disgruntled politicians who want to gain political mileage.
Mr Sampa said the people of Kafulafuta cannot waste a vote on Patrick Mwanawasa because he is an immature young man who cannot bring any development in the area.
“The people of Kafulafuta have said no to vote for the immature young boy who is supposed to concentrate on school. Patrick is a young immature person who is being used by some people to gain political mileage,” he said.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
All nonsense, propaganda and no substance. These people will say any and everything to hold on to the power they use to steal from us. What happened to solution based commentary? A leader unwilling to take criticism would be no different from a dictator and detrimental to democracy. It is illogical to swat at any criticism one recorded from the persons he/she leads and claim to be serving in a democracy. Especially when we all agree that the youth have a greater stake in their future.
PAT MY SON PLEASE BE CAREFUL WIT WHAT YOU SAY AND DO IN LIFE,MIND YOU THIS IS AN ELECTION YEAR LISTEN TO AUNT EVA,REMEMBER THOSE PIPO YOU ARE EMBRACING FORCED THE LATE BIG MAN TO TEMPORALLY QUIT ACTIVE POLITICS BECOZ THOSE SAME PIPO HAD A CORRUPT MIND SET NOW THEY VE REGROUPED AGAIN WITH A DIFFERENT NAME AND ARE TRYING TO USE THE MWANAWASA NAME AGAIN FOR SELFISH GAINS. BE CAREFUL MY SON WITH THOSE PIPO WOLVES WILL ALWAYS BE WOLVES THE SAME GOES SHEEP WILL ALWAYS BE SHEEP WHICH YOU ARE.
We are behind you Patrick, no amount of propagada and intimidation will change our position. we love you!!!
The lady is the one who is being childish patrick is old enough to know what he wants
Patrick for plot one ,Man I love you and I want to see you for plot one.
Give patrick some milk he needs to grow
patrick, i have nothing against you but please listen to parental advice. dont force things.
This boy should go back to school instead of just drinking chibuku and insulting elders!
It is nice we have democracy in Zambia and people can vent their different views!!!
#6 which parental advice which is influenced by politics patrick no has right to be what want on this one is right leave him alone. if these relative are corrupted by RB then should keep silence because family need it so no you unfavour to the right judgement
Please let us vote for RB and MMD this year. He is a BRIDGE builder!!
This boy will soon realise that history is full of stories of former presidents son and daughters who wanted to ride on their parents fame and failed…
The same people who are pushing this boy will be no where when he starts begging for food in the street.. Ask Kaunda and Chiluba’s children…
Musiyeni mufana ! Acita chani ?
This boy will soon realise that history is full of stories of former presidents son and daughters who wanted to ride on their parents fame and failed…
The same people who are pushing this boy will be no where when he starts begging for food in the street.. Ask Kaunda and Chiluba’s children…
Look at clever RB, he has educated his children.. even when he his long gone, the will never beg on the street
#13 MMD cadre; what’s wrong with Patrick joining politics and expressing his views? Remember this Evelyn is also MMD cadre looking for bread and butter from her party she can never be neutral and her advice to Patrick is questionable. You should not condemn others for belonging to political parties of their choice this a democratic country and not a one party state.
Patrick’s advisers are actually the ones pulling him down. You dont ascend to prominence by being arogant against parents let alone a National president who got to power through a vote because the pipo of kafulafuta voted for the same man in 2008(RB). The best he can do to win respect is by aticulating issues and policies intelligently not mudslinging. Help the chap otherwise Sata may oso not even adopt him for MP and or he may get poor votes. He should show that tho young he can withstand other pipo’s views/pressure even if it hurts that’s being man enough. Engaging National Presdo in confrontations will not help him…talk of wat kafulafuta needs and wat Mpombo failed to do wich u can do kwasila.
How many youth NGOs are there now? Are they even registered?
And what will these family members say when Patrick scoops and becomes MP? They will be running to him for some pocket money.
Patrick with his none issue rhetoric but insolence from the Poor Finishers’s Party is definately digging a deeper and irredemable trench for himself. Already he is facing overwhelming social and economic challenges beyond recovery. young as he is the boy has no education, no skills, no social values, no moral definition, no rational thought and no purpose. he is even failing to fill up gas in his car on a daily basis. I just don’t know who cheated him that insults are political converting tatics.
No 14, i have not said patrick should not become a politician or join politics. I am citing examples of people who have tried and failed to enter politics just because their father was a politician..
The boy had not education, no job and never done anything in life apart from drinking..
Is that the making of a politician????
Time will tell
You say youth should participet in politics but when the start using political slang,you call them childish.Ma rubbish
The truth of the matter is that as long as preserves life, RB, national ruling MMD and the people of Zambia are on a victory match all the way into 2016. All these scalawags will yet again fail and blame rigging when their hate crusades and insults have lamentably failed to resonate with the voters. They have had 10 years spewing rubbish, drivel, and delusions when MMd has been steadfastly delivering unprecedented economic and social progress on the people. Zambians will not eat insults, hatred, lies, utopiah, homosexuality, Afghanstan death contracts but what is on the table.
Patrick should go to school first. His father was a seasoned lawyer before he became a politician. Patrick just drinks chibuku thats why he has managed to fit in with Sata. He is a useless boy in the family. did you ever here about him when his father was alive? its cos the father didnt like nonsense.
The boy Patrick is currently failing to feed himself but rolling like ichimpombwa in Katata, imbote and to jili-jili beer in which Mpombo is entrenched. Deluded and uneducated Patrick should have understood the times we are in that education and skills are critical assets of success.
Should have learnt from late Major NgwaWezi Kaunda (HSRIP) who went to UNZA and the UK university where he earned himself a law degree and MS Economics. Thereafter he joined the Army in Mfulira rising to a rank of Major before taking an early retirement. He joined politics where he was MP for Malambo ending up into the Home Affairs Ministry. Without education or skills Patrick will end up being a reject in his social-political spheres.
Credit to RB and MMD for maintaining democracy in Zaambia. President Banda is one of the excellent Presidents in Southern African region. God bless RB and the MMD.
Look at what Bingu wa Mutharika is doing in Malawi? President Bingu wa Mutharika is a disgrace!!!!
how old was Patrick when his late father was invoved in the traffic accident?does he remember the first human being in zambia to call our great LEVY, ‘cabbage’?We are still annoyed by SATA(na)’s language on our levy.We are waiting for the boy to come to kafulafuta and he will meet his humiliation there.
I’m happy that most bloggers are objective about Patrick’s conduct. He can’t rise up in politics using his late father’s popularity. And from what i’m hearing that he has never done anything in his life, what experience does he bring to the Zambia politics and development agenda. I do not think he can even articulate economic and development issues in Parliament. Please people of Kafulafuta don’t vote for small boy. PF do not adopt this boy. He is immature and capable of nothing. He will just be insulting elders in Parliament. Let him continue drinking and screwing women in Chilulu. Tizamuona ngati ndalama za atate bake zasila!!! S.T.U.P.I.D. young man.
John, excellent. This boy is what we call scum of the earth pity some see an Mp in him! Is this the low level politics has sunk to?
This boy is yet to learn through the hard way and PF will not be there for him. Mpombo too will not be there for him. In life you reap what you sow. Respect for our elders is cardinal whether we have democracy or not. Shame on those who are using this immature boy and shame on those who are supporting him.
There is no such a thing as an elder in politics. A fool is a fool whether they are 20 or 74 years of age. in this case Banda has proved himself not worth of respect.
RB has educated all his children in best Western Universities regardless what vocation they have gone into. None holds a degree lower than what a Graduate school confers. No doubt even Temwani and Dumani the little ones will excell in their education especially that Mama Tandiwe Banda is education centric. This is evidenced by her own devotion to finish studies in Information Technology and successfully setting up a multi million Dollar scholarships fund to many vulnerable but deserving Zambians to Malaysia. Patrick got FIATS at Grade 12 and got an academic dismissal in the UK where he went for a law degree. That is why he has nothing to his name but drivel and delusions.
voting for SATA is a must but RB has to kneel down for our vote
i love both RB and Patrick…i llvote for both. ABASSHHH COBRA!!!
Nice to see my friend Evelyn from Northrise -Ndola thoze gone 15 yearz or so. Be there for your nephew, even if you may not agree politically.
Ba funa chabe Nchito aba amayi!!! This is the new era, just because your Dad supported Sheffeild Wednesday in the 70’s does not mean i should support em as well instead of my beloved Man Utd…..Ni ku Munzi????
This toddler called patricia when will he stop drinking poja………………….grow up kabuudo. unstead of talkin advantage of the late fathers good name and take up opportunities that comes with his father’s legacy, the chap is bizy yapping. Let him lose in kafulafuta this year.
Patrick wants to rule and the lady,aunt Eva, wants him to be a cadre forever like her. Who would listen to such nonsense. Go Patrick Go. Your father chatted his own way to power and you can do it on your own as well.
I have not read anywhere where PM is “Insulting” aba kalamba. RB is president hence he needs to be critised in order for him to improve on his weaknesses but the F.O.O.L is a dunderhead who doesn’t heed advice even from his own state house advisers. If a young man speaks against an older person it’s seen as “Insulting”. I think the word in Zed has even lost its meaning. Zambia belongs to all, young and old, if an older person is messing my country where by I, a young man will pay for in the future I have every right to speak out so does PM.
Patrick is very right. People who are educated have failed to run this country instead they have looted our coffers. Leave the boy alone, do you want him to be quite when things are wrong? He is a courageous young man who deserves support from well meaning Zambians. He is not a boot liker like Kavindele, Shikapwasha and Ben Mwila Nashala neka party. Chiefs are no longer a factor in today’s politics because we do not eat from chiefs ports. Patrick you are the next member of parliament for Kafulafuta under PF ticket. Congrats in advance.
Patrick is not childish, when Bwezani Banda called Sata’s parents “satanist” was he childish? when he called Under Five HH “mwana wa imbwa” was he childish? When he called Zambians “Bamambala” was he childish? what is good for the goose should be good for the garner. Patrick is not insulting but bringing issues affecting the majority poor Zambians.
Prince Mushili must leave Patrick Mwanawasa alone, the boy is intelligent and is old enough to decide and evaluate issues own his own. Prince Mushili must be reminded that a ballot is screte and the chiefs wont be there when their subjects will be casting the votes. The boy will sweep the polls in Kafulafuta VIVA PF
The boy is courageous unlike presidents kids in filth deals and run away from Post reporters like rats
Patrick lacks wisdom.
Even in politics there is always use of wisdom for those that are wise.
You dont have to be dull and unwise, just because you are in politics, No.
The youngman lacks wisdom and any form of analysis. How can he try to ride on his father’s name when he is persuing a different route all together, uniting with shifting shadows,and people whon called his father cabbage, and all types of names.
Having democratic right does not mean lacking intellect and insight, and respect. democratic right is not mutually exclussive to intelligence. You can actually have both, which is what is expected. PF cant build leaders because they believe the qualities of leadership border on insults. And so they will mentor all their young into insultants.
THE BOY IS VENTING OUT HIS PENT UP EMOTIONS ON RB. WE KNOW THE CAUSE..WITH CROSSOVERS OF OLD ELEPHANTS TO PF,THE YOUNGEST RABBIT WILL STILL FACE POLITICAL SUFFOCATION
Its hard to respect a man that marries a girl 40 years younger
How does one expect Patrick to keep zee when MMD set in motion one Joe Malanji (Copperbelt MMD Taskforce Chairman) to attack him and Mayor Kamanga using public media. Everlyn should focus on her NEC position and the benefits she is drawing from RB and let the young man concentrate on his political career. He has a life to live. Infact the views being expressed by the Mushili Royal Establishment are not for every electrote in Kafulafuta. Those that are condeming Patrick are doing that out of fear and blind diplomacy they are not sincere enough to tell RB that all is not well. For determined person to move forward you start from somewhere by making a move. Patrick knows what he is doing he is not a baby. In politics there are no permanent enemies but take a move when it suits you. Ni TIMING
Patrick is just using political jargons. If Bwezani is too old for the language let him quit politics. in fact chi RBishi is the one with very bad language. Hammer them Patrick.
Patrick..listen to elders and go back to school. education is the best investment you can ever have. politics is for others and not you. posterity will judge me on the soundness of this advise.
Patrick has forgotten that his father did not depend on politics for his living.
politics was not his main stay.
Now Patrick wants to think that politics will solve his career gap.
When Zambia just got indpendence things were different that is why VJ and RB found themselves young in leadership.
But for now, the same old timers of the SATA type will not let the young rule.
Patrick will learn this by experience, hoping he does not dicover too late. But if the aim and goal is to insult then he will find it easy to achieve that goal especially when he sticks to PF where it all happens. PF has made losing and insults their lifestyle.
Pliz,pliz ba Patrick heed advise,your father never started the way you want to start.The most intelligent and educated men and women of this world receive and value advise.Poor Finishers will be properly finished this year with their coxswain.
The best Patrick can opt for in life is (1) get a good education and (2) get a good job to consolidate a life-time profession. Remember that PF leadership are exploiting your father’s name with no regard for him in life and death. Kafulafuta is not Zambia. The truth is that your father (Levy) was not as popular as FTJ but rose to Republican Presidency by shear luck. The strength of MMD supported Levy’s survival in national politics.
Hi, just wanted to say i liked this article. it was practical. keep on posting.