UPND President, Hakainde Hichilema says his party sees no reasons for the country to continue with the same leaders since independence.
He has since described the 20th September polls are magnanimous because Zambians should take out all old leaders.
Speaking exclusively to Muvi TV, Mr Hichilema has said the electorate must aim for not just change but vibrancy in national leadership.
And Mr Hichilema has charged that the Electoral Commission of Zambia is not as independent as it should be to deliver a free and fair election.
Meanwhile, Mr Hichilema has further observed that the country has lost time and resources in the failed constitution making process.
And on taxation, Mr Hichilema has stated that the current regime is not fair as the country is losing out on almost 800 million dollars in revenue from the mines.
Meanwhile, UPND National Chairman, Edward Kasoko has resigned from the party and joined the MMD. Mr Kasoko, who is the immediate past Member of Parliament for Mwembeshi in Mumbwa, made his move today in the afternoon.
He is one of the immediate past MPs left out of the UPND final list of adopted parliamentary aspirants for this year’s general elections.
And New Generation Party President, Humphrey Siulapwa has reiterated his stance of de-campaigning old politicians.Speaking in Lusaka today, Mr Siulapwa said old politicians must give chance to the youth in the political arena.
He observed that the youth have been sidelined by all political parties in the parliamentary aspirants adoption process for the coming general elections.
Mr Siulapwa has cited the MMD’s Kabwata parliamentary aspirant, Peter Machungwa and the PF’s Munali aspirant, Nkandu Luo, as those among the old politicians.
I appreciate HH level headedness and maturity. I call on all reasonable Zambians to support this young, and retire Sata and RB. They have served their country and it is time they rested.
Why does HH does not mention RB’s name each time he talks about getting rid of old leaders?
Our leader RB and people’s ruling MMD party means:
More Subsidies at production level than at consumption,
More better schools,
More hospitals,
More food security through bumper harvests,
More good markets,
more road networks,
More bridges,
More dams,
More livestock treatment and replenishing centers,
More quality education,
Massive investments,
more dignity for every hardworking Zambian,
Guaranteered national security,
More political stability and coexistence.
Every patriotic and sober Zambian citizen appreciate the fact that a New Mandate for RB and his people’s national ruling MMD party means dignity for every hardworking and law abidding Zambian.
HH, While I agree with your sentiments, what strategy have you employed to make voters act on your beliefs? Politics is about strategy. Obama put up a strategy to attRact the youth to his thinking. You? Yu seem to be treading the same path of the old geyser u r criticising. Very soon you will also be old. You should also have employed a strategy not to be seen aas an old fashioned tribalist because your party  is viewed as a Tonga tribe party. Ukani a prosspective President!
Real Income #5 I agree with you Tribal parties are so old fashioned no progressive politician wants to be identified with them. If HH can’t come up with a strategy to appeal to the rest of the country then he is more archaic than the old geysers he is mudslinging. Sata also needs to show us that he cares for Zambia not only aba Bemba. Banda is too much of a Tidyelepo President who wakes up to the needs of the electorate only in Election year.
HH, maybe in 2016 if you will have grown up. I have serious doubts about the reasoning capacity of anyone who flirts with a cobra, I don’t see the difference between you and Mpombo, Mulongoti, Masebo, Mangani. What kind of person are you to have entered into a Pact with a snake, Mr Sata? That alone removed any confidence which Zambians may have had in you. But don’t worry, Zambians forget easily so if you repent and reorganise yourself politically, they may just vote for you in 2016.
You have your facts skewed up. Don’t u know the reasons why UPND pulled out of the PACT? Get a lyf please.
Zambia can not even make a spoon and you want to call your selves middle income. Yes maybe middle income to buy and consume South african goods since this is were MMDs intrests lie. If anything happens to the price of copper that will be it, back to square one with all those foreigners doing work our graduates should be doing the 1st to flee.
i donot know what is happening HH says youngones should for him and nawakwi NGOs says women for vote for her logically old for vote for RB and Sata
IT IS GOSPEL TRUTH THAT YOUTHS CAN ONLY RISE IF OLD POLITICIANS WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE SYSTEM FOR SO LONG PAVE WAY FOR THEM. THERE IS NO BETTER REASON THAN SELFISHNESS AND GREEDY BY THE OLD POLITICIANS TO KEEP RECYCLING THEMSELVES WHEN THERE ARE MANY UNEMPLOYED YOUNG PEOPLE ROAMING THE STREETS..CAUSING OBSTRUCTION TO THE YOUTHS IS CRIMINAL!
My President Humphrey Siulapwa has spoken.
Viva youth power
old politicians must leave room for young ones early. They should not wait until streets congest with unemployed youths. people retire to enable others get jobs too. wamuyayaya syndrome should come to an end. RB promised to rule for 3yrs but has continued and looks like one who cannot relinguish power till death does him part. Worse is sata who has never tolerated any one to challenge him. HH has hit the nail on the head!
POWER TO THE YOUTHS NOT TO THE OLD! Viva zambia’s obama HHHHHHHHHHH
imiti ikula, e mpanga! it is straight forward,if the middle aged delay to move on,they will delay those behind them. Let us give chance to others.
With or without hatred this year it is PABWATOOO, Only those who have been enjoying poverty will go for wrong people to make 25 years of unfruitness years for the poor Zambians who can’t use there brains well to see and make a concrete decision in life.
Age aint nothing but a number! The way the Tongas campaign is very awkward and backward. At that rate they will never rule Zambia.Politics is about numbers and is not about age. One time they campaigned on the basis of Obama and the British Prime Minister, David Cameron. What have they to tell us now, Obama is running a USA which is almost grinding to a halt eonomically, while Cameron is a suspect in phone hacking scandles that have engulfed the UK. Hichilema is just a croock and will never be lucky in his life cos he has no respect for elders. Its a curse!
You are just another lousy contributor. Next time please don’t post such frivolous non-issues.
Fitness for purpose, HH you are fit for the purpose of developing the nation, our experience has proved that political experience does not develop a nation. Here in Uganda, Museven is one of the political experts in Africa, but the economy is so bad. These political experts just want to manipulate the people so that they can make use of their poverty to gets votes to consolidate their stay in power. In our nation, it is a league of recycled politicians who want to continue ruling despite poverty levels. Give HH chance to fix the economy, later we will think of the recycled when we have bread and butter on the table. There is time for everything, Sata and Banda had their own time to work and it is now our turn. Let them rest, we will take good care of them.
HH you can be a credible alternative only if you can embrace nationalism first and consign selfishness and tribalism to extinction.
This is how you are going to build a national image around yourself and UPND
Its time the so called YOUTHS stopped complaining abt being left out of the political process and started showing up @the polls!! Come election time, the so called YOUTHS will be busy drinking SHEKI SHEKI and wont show up to vote….TO MANY MAMBALAS BA ZED!!
BA HH ARE YOU YOU TELLING US THAT YOU HAVE ALSO KICKED OUT YOUR OLD FATHER FROM HOME.WHAT IF TOMORROW WHEN YOU ARE OLD WOULD YOU LIKED TO KICKED OUT BY YOUR YOUNG CHILDREN FROM YOUR HOUSE.POLITICS HAS NO AGE LIMITS BA HH ALL ONE NEEDS IS JUST BRAINS AND GUTS.
Ladies and gentlement, my question is this. Why do the politicians fix a retirment age of 55 for the rest of us whilst they on the other hand fail to fix an age limit for political office? This is a case of chiwamila galu kuluma mbuzi but not the other way round.
#15. Kawayawaya, you guys really hate HH. The guy is just a genius. There is no way share holders for all those international companies would have allowed him to be their CEO. Sata only managed to have a smell of high office thru politics thats why he’s been clinging to that for such a long time. Anyway in Zambia anybody can himself/herself a politician. Imagine even the likes of William Tekele Banda, Nakawala (third term lady kaponya), Bobo from Kulima tower bus station, and many more call themselves politicians. The tribal tag is just a political gimmick. Every sincere person in Zambia knows who the real tribalists are. People have already decided who they will vote for. Im pretty sure sata can count on your vote. I hope he will thank you for being so loyal.
i hate senior citizen with a passion. if i see him i wouldn’t hesitate to shoot him. the guy’s so annoying. Â
UPND National Chairman, Edward Kasoko has resigned from the party and joined the MMD. Well the processes of adoption is long. He failed to go through and should not blame the party. The people in the area did not want him. Maybe MMD can use him. Politicians without princeples.
The tribal issue is not just a tag. Some parties have a specific clause which states that the party president must come from one part of Zed only. This is what led progresive pipo in that party to leave when their founding president died.
HH is the lesser evil in this election, for those of you who think that Satan and his catholic cahoots can lead Zambia please view the following clip below
NAPAPA SANA…#…. You are not normal, he did not mention SATA either, why do you want him to mention RB. He is saying old politician have outlived their usefulness. that include president Banda and SATA who are nearly 75 years now. some of you are just showing your limited knowledge. Even if you hate HH, there is now way, you will reach at the level HH reached. If you like your country, the best you could have helped zambia is to vote for HH in the comming elections. Majority zambia, sees no change in SATA and RB, so let us concetrate attracting more voters instead of name calling. Even if HH takes over Government, there is no way, he can put all his cabinet Tongas, that is not posible, he has tribes all over the country.so 20HHHHHH on 20/09/2011HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
HH should have been in PF but nature sometimes has it that good seed will fall on bad soil….shame its a fact he would have had the majority support of Zambians it pains to see such credible candidate go to waste under UPND…. anyway Viva Sata viva PF… its the change of government we want…MMD 20 years hell NO
Umwaice uwabula amano,forward RB.NAFUTI NAFUTI.
#25 wher eis the clip?
Izn’t there only one so called old leader in State House that HH should aim to kick out?Â
# KAWAYAWAYA…………What more lucky do you want a B$illionnaire to have? its you that needs lucky so that u move out of the poverty mentality u seem to exhibit. Dull chap
If you see the people that surround Mr Sata and his backers both old time politicians and the new ones mostly rejects from MMD, but ESPECIALLY the politicians from yesteryear who are not visible to the gullible PF cadres, you can see the makings of a grand plunder.
Elias chipimo jr is real obama. not the other tribal character.
#2 because HH is smart. He can see what RB has accomplished in the 3 short years that he has been at the helm.
I would also hazard a guess that policywise RB and HH are not miles apart.
Elias chipimo jr looks older than HH. I saw him on TV. we want HH because he is young and mature.
#16 Kawayawaya. I agree with your sentiments entirely. I respect HH, but tactically any form of discriminatory action would be political suicide in more developed countries. To somehow suggest that he is the best candidate because of his age is just plain ridiculous. He should not crowd his campaign message with this red herring, Keep the message focused on what he is going to do for the country and the people. That is what people want to hear. JOBS, JOBS, JOBS in the case of the young people. In fact I would go further and say stop referring to other people completely.
HH, Zambia is for all Zambians. Young and old. Don’t alienate the senior citizens, Mr Hichilema. They also vote, you know.
What message are you sending out? That you will discriminate against certain sections of the society. Now its age, what’s going to be next. Become a President for all Zambians regardless of religion, race, creed, age, or sex.
I don’t know how old this Kasoko. I hope he was not adopted because of his age.
Now this is the problem with Zambian politicians. When they don’t get their way in one party they jump ship to another one. Mpombo, Masebo, Mulongoti. No credibility at all. It’s all about jobs.
The writing is on the wall;RB will be re-elected,HH & Sata will split the opposition vote, thus giving RB an advantage.
His(HH) age, the one he always preaches about is at the moment his biggest downfall. He does not wield the authority of a true leader. His subordinates seem to have control over him. I’m a Monze resident and we made it clear that we are fed up of that Jack Mwimbu, but no he was commanded by mwimbu to give him the seat back. How can such a man even run a committed job of being president. This nation will be run by ministers in his cabinet. Sure NO from me and a lot more former supporters from Monze.
HH,you are becoming irrelevant and a liability.You claim,ECZ is not independent enough to deliver free and fair elections,my question is why are you participating?You further said that the country lost time and resources on the failed constitution,were you and your party not part of the NCC?Are you as UPND not the ones who caused this failure after enriching yourselves through the allowances you got?You said old politicians should be kicked out!Are you not the one who embraced THE OLD MAN SATA without even consulting the grass roots?You did not know then but have just realized NOW that the old men are no good?Come on HH,be a man!No wonder Sata called you AN UNDER FIVE.I think the old man was right,you have become useless.Know why?During your alliance with PF,Sata got the sense out of you.
Sata has been in politics for over 46 years, he’s tired, we don’t need him. We don’t want another funeral. We don’t want to spend another 9 billion kwacha on funeral expense, the money can be used to repair the Kalabo Mongu road. Please cycle mata retire.
This under-5 thinks winning is just a matter of decampaigning everyone
HH this issue of Old people OUT. Even in UPND, u have Old people in your Management Committe, your own NEC. How will they feel about it, being told old people OUT. This will work againat you. Is that the reason you left out your own UPND Chairman Mr. Edward Kasoko the past Mp for Mwembeshi???? grow up. You have been talking about old pipo since 10 yrs ago. What u forget is that you have also grown OLD. 5yrs from now u will be madala+++. You are not winning these elections and this Old pipo OUT line wont win u votes.
No. 14 (Choolwe). You Tongas are stupid!! I do not know how on earth you can allow MMD to split your votes. Easteners are voting for their own, Northeners and those from Luapulua are doing the same. Us Westerners will vote for Milupi and I am sure that our cousins and sisters in North Western will support us.
As for you “BANTU BO TATWE”, you will remain backward for ever & ever for as long as you do not think!!!
BIG UP CHOOLWE! You seem to be the only realistic TONGA on the blog. Tell it like it is. HH is loyal (Under 5) even to his subordinates. I don’t subbscribe to tribal loyalty where others even fail to judge objectively. HH is old enough to father a presidential candidate. Why is he assasinating old people?
Siulapwa is just a useless chap, who is found at Lotti house bars begging for cigarretes and beer. can u really trust such fools……….keep your stinky mouth shut.
lets vote rb then 2016 we can vote in a younger leader ryt nw theres no young leader making sense
I personally would love to see young people to be on top in politics, but using this as a campaign gimmick is cheap…try something else HH; you are smarter than that!
So why doesn’t Siulapwa adopt his own MPs?
HH said ‘no need to continue with the same leaders since independence’. There is a difference between stating that you need youthful vibrant thinking and energetic leaders and being an ageist, as some of you seem to saying HH is guilty of. Advocating for fresh leadership is not the same as saying you are against old people. You are simply saying you have had your time – give a chance to others. A number of bloggers are quick to interpret statements in a dimensionally opposite way. Most of you who are also accusing HH of being tribalist have no evidence to support the same – just assumptions, assumptions to sway people to your misinformed camp.
I don’t believe in these feck political analysts who are always analysing on these feck government medias ZNBC and the government papers,the truth of the matter is that Sata is becomining our next president…No doubt about it,its the will of the people so you have to respect it..Let us leaarn to accept….Blacks!!!!!!!!