Renowned Lawyer Sakwiba Sikota has refused to confirm or deny whether he has been adopted to stand on UPND tickek in the forth forth coming Livingstone by election slated for February 28, 2013.
When contacted today, Mr. Sikota neither denied nor confirmed but said he was going to get back and issue a statement after consultations with the UPND top management.
However UPND Deputy Party Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa when reached for comment on the matter could also neither confirm nor deny the issue.
Mr. Mweetwa said that if his party has adopted Mr. Sikota it will make an official announcement, next week.
He could not deny the candidature of Mr. Sikota saying that although the party could not announce officially, Mr. Sikota was the likely candidate to stand on UPND ticket as he was the people’s choice in the area.
“UPND is considering Mr. Sikota, who is also former MP for Livingstone and stood under the UPND ticket in 2001, “he said.
The renowned Lawyer, is opposition United Liberal Party ( ULP ) leader. It is not known whether if adopted , Mr. Sikota will relinquish his party post for him to contest the Livingstone seat on UPND as required by law.
The MMD has adopted former district commissioner of Siavonga Fred Siasuntwe as its candidate for the Livingstone parliamentary by-election.
MMD chairperson for elections Kennedy Chipungu has since appealed to voters to give Siasuntwe their vote.
He said Siasuntwe is a bonafide member of the MMD with unquestionable loyalty and is politically mature.
Siasuntwe also served as District Commissioner for Kazungula.
The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) will field a Livingstone businessman Lawrence Evans as their candidate for Livingstone Central seat.
Wa yaka moto,wapya ba mwine baise.Abashala ni ba ngwereeeeeee.
NO MATTER WHO STANDS, PF WILL TAKE THE DAY. OPPOSITION VOTE WILL BE SPLIT BETWEEN MMD ,UPND AND UNIP
Kawalala uyu he has too many skeletons in his closet
Did he steal from you? Please go ahead and sue him! Don’t people like you get tired of making assertions you can’t prove? Please proceed and tell us which skeletons these are you are talking about? Did he kill some relatives of yours and kept their skeletons as souvenirs? Can you please donate them to my lab once you’ve retrieved them from Saki’s closet!
I have already sued him over the Boabab Land. I know our president will get it for us.useless man
yeah man!! wapia munzi lol, common Sikota give PF a headache lol.
I THINK AS A RESIDENT OF LIVINGSTONE ILL TAKE IT AS AN INSULT IF UPND WILL ADOPT SAKWIBA SIKOTA AS THEIR CANDIDATE FOR LIVINGSTONE BY ELECTION!THIS IS THE MAN WHO FAILED TO PROVIDE QUALITY LEADERSHIP TO THE PEOPLE OF LIVINGSTONE FOR THE TEN YEARS HE WAS A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR LIVINGSTONE AND ONLY APPEARED WHEN IT WAS TYM FOR ELECTIONS.
@ Pink I wish you could say the same about the man occupying plot 1. go to youtube and search for standup for Zambia, also Nigeriaintel dot com for a little more insight into the HUGE problems Zambia is facing.
We are reliably informed that late General Enos Haimbe and Sakwiba Sikota are the only MPs who brought tangible development to Livingstone of all the MPs who have stood in Livingstone since the 1970s.
Now this is interesting. So the Leader of one opposition party can be adopted by another opposition party to stand on its ticket for a parliamentary election. Does this mean that he stops being leader of his current party an abandons his followers, if any in Saki’s case (other than Amsterdam)? What happens if he loses the elections? Does he continue being an ordinary member of his sponsoring party or does he go back to the followers he abandoned? Lets wait and see! @ Pink I totally agree with you. Couple his proven previous failures and the current high profile court cases he is involved with, he will hardly be in Parliament or L/Stone
good observation
You are right my brother. I also wonder as to what is happening in our country now. It was Nevers, now it is Saki abandoning their parties. Are they really good and trusted people? Ukwalola umwela.
Imwe!!! Let him stand. I think PF cadres are scared because Saki is going to wallop the other candidates clean. Seleni tuvoteko!
The pple of Livingston would be mad to vote for this *****. The man who keeps fighting against the law protecting those guilty of corruption and crime. Shame on this *****. The youths where are you! It’s high time you guys started making decisions!
Oh dear ! The accused in every civilized society have the right to legal representation. Do you know that governments even your own have legal aid departments to help accused people who cannot afford their own lawyers? Honestly, why do people like continue exposing your ignorance on public fora? No one is ever guilty until judged so by a court of law and therefore the accused is entitled to legal representation. It is called the due process! What a dunderhead! Nauseated!
Zambian(livingstonianz)vote wisely for UPND 2016 HH PRESIDO.
Upnd’s requesting the LP leader to think about “united we stand” against dictator sata who tìnks zambia belongs to… only.
Keep on dreaming until HH is worn out with hatred. He has a skin of opani. Atase I almost puked last night when I saw this piece of carbage on my LED screen.
Ndeloleshafye
SAKWIBA WOULD BE A CREDIBLE CANDIDATE FOR LIVINGSTONE ON UPND WITHOUT DOUBT.
Is he standing on UPND ticket or his party’s the ULP? Bo Sikota which is which bashemi bamina.
Ha ha ati Sikota Wina a party president of ULP.yaba Zambians sometimes make me laugh.why should a principled man abandon his party n stand on another party instead of his own party. can’t c logic on this one.what I c are politics of hate,selfish,poverty,regionalism
And taking illterate people 4 granted.ooops no wonder USA can’t support such opposition without direction.
You’re just scared that your PF will lose the seat!
Sakwiba can’t be trusted by genuine people. soon he’ll be bought by PF.he really loves mney.wait n c how this Man lack morals. ant it’ll be a mistake if UPND adopt saki.people of livingstone don’t respect Saki.he did nothing for 10 years.Awe UPND u’re now a real recycled party.I don’t know how u gonna campaign this time around coz u’ve shifted from your goal post dat U don’t want recycled politicians.
Thankfully a Sata….nist like yourself do not pass for a genuine person! Sata…nists, you are quite a starnge lot. You’re forever on this sick campaign of finding a hypothetical good UPND leader to replace HH. You even speak highly of late Mazoka that he was good UPND leader. But you maggots never voted for him when he was alive. Now you’re on a campaign of finding an ‘acceptable’ UPND candidate for Livingstone because you dont like the one who is been suggested. You people are very very sick!
but chi saki, whats wrong with him? How many pipo is he going to prostitute his soul to just for personal agravandisement. When you hear chi saki answer like that just know the rumour is true.
Ati when you hear Chi Saki answer like that. ke ke ke ke
ni chi mambala chikulu chi saki.
You’re just worried that your tribal PF will lose the by election caused by chi Sata!
Saki. Is a criminal.no one can trust this fool. upnd u are finished kanshi.pf will scope this seat .viva pf. Teach these criminals a lesson. Upnd and mmd are dead says gary nkombo on face book m
Saki u want to eat from upnd as well. Upnd is wasting time saki can’t win.
Saki wanted 2 lead de upnd afta de demise of mazoka but de upnd rejected him dat dey cudnt give de mantle 2 smeone who urinates in his pants wen he is drunk so wat has changed now, has saki stopped being a chisusu (bed wetter) from prsdnt 2 mp wat a demotion
The Kolwestans are almost urinating in their pants when they hear of saki standing in Livingstone. You can say all that you want to say about him. Just know Livingstone is saki and saki is livingstone. NO ONE IS IN INTERESTED IN YOUR TRIBAL PF. THE NATION IS AWARE of you stupid tribal arrangements
I pity one who will stand on the ‘Masholi Party!’ The ones who put public resources in their personal accounts! The same people who are tarnishing the peaceful environment of Livingstone by robbing local residents and Tourists! If in your Party the majority are Masholi then forget about winning Livingstone!
You mean the masholi that ruling you and me?
Good strategy for the undp as a party but a shem on saki’s party and reasoning,as vice president when mazoka died he was automatic president but he was denied hence forming his own party.Advise is, desist from eating vomit saki you are above such poverty behavours & positions………..
If Saki accepts this offer by UPND, it will just highlight how weak his influence as a politician he can make on the Zambian political arena. A politician who fails to make it on his on when he goes solo is not good to anyone, better to leave him wondering in the political wilderness like BY. Opposition party poaching a rival opposition party president to stand as an MP on their ticket?? T.I.A- This Is Africa! The opposition are destroying themselves and they should not blame PF, UPND cannot fail to find someone in their own party to contest the Livingstone seat, HH should put the house in order, this is a sign of weakness. If they can fail to find people to contest in their stronghold, how do they expect to find people who can win them seats in the rest of the country?
Sata….nist just shut up! Why dont you say the same thing about the MMD MPs you breadwinner Sata is busy corrupting?
All of you who are saying no to Sakwiba are not genuine. I know you are heavily sweating under your pants knowing UPND is winning with Sikota. When PF is fielding useless MMD members like Masumba you have no problem. Why have problems with UPND fielding a learned man of the land. SHAME ON you.
All those who blindly support sata(n) so will one day realize how lethal his poison is. It is evil for a normal person to support what is loathed by God. This president and his goivernment are the worst and those who support them are up to no good for Zambia’s well being. The man on Sangomas and consults spirits of the dead. Is this the man a sane person can celebrate? What has brenda Mutemba and Antoniel Mutentwa done to be fired? Just because they allowed for a UPND rally in Kabwata? God is watching over the happenings in zambia and thankfully believers in Christ have now woken up and praying for God intervention and surely God will. The man hates God and genuine worshipers of God. 2014 no Christian church will be allowed to continue meeting in classrooms of GRZ schools.
Iwe just shut up, what has Mutentwa’s dismissal got to do with Kabwata rally? Koma ndiwe cikoopo maningi James ai. For your information, Brenda has been deployed. Fuseke kolwe iwe.
Totally agree with you SK #16 the decision to field Saki that is if he accepts makes UPND and Saki no better than the PF they are fighting…Saki is President of ULP why does he not stand on his own party ticket e.g BY, Milupi. This begs the question “Will Saki DEFECT to UPND” isn’t this very behavior thats causing costly by-elections? UPND as a party taking the moral high ground certainly not practicing what they preach and are no better than PF! say Saki is a man of integrity & cannot be bought…are U sure? A man who will abandon his own party..UPND has no more substance with their file n rank? As for Saki where do U stand as a man UPND hounded U out when U challenged HH, formed your own party but willing to defect and represent them as MP. Saki stand up & be counted as ULP & as a…
Saki stand up & be counted as ULP & as a Man!
Saki knows ULP is non starter,its goin nowhere.does it even ve followers,I ve not heard any1 mention they belong to ulp besids saki
Saki will get the day..we are tired of mediocre Mps..sexy sikwela and satanist katombo…now chibuku evans..awe..we need sanity!!UPND go..
Keep them guessing
Go Saki Go! The Sata….nists are quaking and quacking!
The principled respect I held for UPND stance of not tolerating re-cycled politicians in leadership other than membership has now waned. It is cowardice to resort to Saki now, when brand new candidates could be found within L/stone. UPND is popular here, but to impose a candidate and claim the peolple have demanded for Saki is a lie. Is this the way of paying back Saki legal feese by imposing him on us. We haven’t yet recovered from how much he took us for granted and failed to deliver any development in ten years except for his uncompleted hotel and two mourners shelters built from reject -bricks left-over from his hotel which was built on grabbed land in a wrong place for a hotel. We need a humble, local, ever available candidate to be voted in this bye-election for development…
Maybe this iz what iz meant by the addage; ” politiks iz a dirty game”, very dirty indeed.
Saki booted and this time you will be rebooted, shame old man, Good lawyer but a politician without focus
HH should stand in livingstone
You are right, in fact he should have stood as a ward chairman or councillor so that he starts rising through ranks like my president HEMCS. No insults please, I am allergic.
yes,
Sata….nists are quaking and quacking!
Mr Sikota how can you easily forget ” ONLY A TONGA WILL BE PRESIDENT OF UPND” and how you were hounded out of the party surly you are going back to you vomit. Do you really think Zambian are that dull to trust you and UPND. It was just yesterday you were saying UPND is tribal.