up support for Dr. Chilufya (right)
The Patriotic Front Candidate in the Mansa Central Constituency by election has scooped the seat with 9,671 votes with FDD’s Alfred Mwape as a run up with 1,279 votes.
MMD’s Alfred Kapolyo got 1,103 while UPND Chikonde Rosemary trailed with 388 and UNIP Mwelwa Charles got 162.
Announcing and declaring the results Mansa Municpal Council Chamber this morning around 03.00 hours, Returning Officer Robert Zimba declared Dr. Chilufya as a winner after getting more votes than his fellow contenders for the seat.
He said 166 were rejected while there was no disputed ballot paper in the voting exercise.
And Dr. Chilufya thanked the people of Mansa for the peaceful campaigns and called for reconciliation and unity of purpose in order to develop the constituency together.
He said he will work with others parliamentarians in Luapula to ensure that the development agenda was achieved by planning together and undertaking common projects to deliver to the people of Luapula.
He said he will work with Luapula water and sewerage company to promote the provision of piped water to most residential areas and drill boreholes in schools and institutions that need water in the constituency.
He said he was a member of parliament for all the people of Mansa Central and thanked his fellow contestants for participating in the race to Manda hill which was good for democracy.
He added that he grateful to the people of Mansa for voting for him and giving him the trust to represent thm effectively in parliament.
FDD
Ba Nevers, we told you. MMD will never come back to life. Just come back to Victory Ministries and leave Kachingwe and Namugala torum MMD. They may do better.
Now the opposition can start their usual cry of rigging.The engineer,Wanzelu and Ndobo where are you at ? The floor is open !
Kachingwe said it. He told you the truth. But instead of listening to him…..you beat him up. You will get no where without Kachingwe.
WELCOME FDD, PLEASE KEEP IT UP. YOU CAN BECOME SECOND TO PF BECOZ YOU HAVE A CLEAN RECORD ON ZAMBIAN POLITICS. I MEAN NO TRIBAL TAG. THE PRESIDENT IS FROM NOTHERN, THE VICE IS FROM EASTERN. WORK HARD AND PUT STRUCTURES IN ALL PROVINCES.
Ba opposition mwaba ! Ki ki ki.
UPND 4TH POSITION!!! UNDER 5 STRAGERY WORKING WELL. KEEP IT UP
Ndipo batuchita vilonda.This is not fair.
Lets celebrate yal ! Haters can hate.
there is no rigging,it was just expected from those villagers.
Pobo after pobo.Up PF !!!!
FDD CONGRATULATIONS KEEP IT UP
This one PF won fair and square. There is always a sympathy vote when the incumbent dies in office as compared to crossing the floor. The added advantage for PF in Mansa is that they did export Lusaka and Copperbelt cadres into Mansa to intimidate and beat up people. You cannot expect people you have just beaten to vote for you. Peaceful elections bring about true reflections. This as it should be.
Exactly! FDD were the biggest winners of the day!
Upnd ati bwa ? Pwahaha.
Congratulations PF and Dr Chilufya on your Mansa victory.
How ever this victory shows that there parts of the country where people are still gullible. I hope they will remain in the minority come 2016. PF needs to be kicked out before the country is completely destroyed and becomes inhabitable.
If PF are running things well, why don’t you PF guys in the diaspora go home?
All Bemba led parties did well in this bye elections!
I still believe in UPND no matter what. What PF has gotten is a sympathy vote. And when we say our colleagues in Luapula, Northern, and Muchinga are tribal, we get insulted. If it was in Southern Province, the screaming headline in the post tomorrow will be TRIBALISM WINS UPND THE SEAT. Why is it that others decide on a candidate, its tribalism while others, its ok. 2016 is on the yonder. We will continue to campaign in Luapula and convince a few progressives. the 2016 revolution is unstoppable.
@amocaha
You are absolutely right on this one. If this happened in Southern province, PF LT bloggers would have gone to the top of the hill to shout tribalism!. What they forget is that the whole country is watching their tribalism and come 2016 all the provinces will vote opposition except Luapula, Nothern and Muchinga. UPND will take southern,western North western , 80% of central, 60% of Copperbelt and Lusaka, 40% of Eatsern province.
These are just my wishes and guestimations.
M’membe rules Zambia by remote! Without m’membe Sata and PF would be nowhere and Sata knows that. What m’membe wants Sata does. M’membe wants Kabimba to succeed Sata with Kaseba as vice President and so it shall be.
M’membe the king of PF. He is the puppet master like it or not.
Ha ha ha ha ha.You see what I have been telling you ? I always tell people that PF has only lost popularity on the internet(Facebook inclusive) but not on the ground.These results attests to that.Lol
The problem is we have too many bloggers(on this site and others) who don`t vote for various reasons that have instead turned into PF`s arm chair critics and pessimists .Mansa twageta, lelo bwanama !!!
@saulos.upnd and pf have strongholds.so if upnd wins in s/province thats not news but kafulafuta.equaly if pf wins in mansa thats not news again but in mufumbwe.
Nipamaka !! What a good weekend this will be.
Pf temunobe !!!!
Only Western, Lusaka and Northwestern Provinces see TRUE barometers of Party popularity. The rest of the Provinces vote on tribal lines! Even Mandela or Obama would lose to Sata in Luapula!
Well said bwana Saulosi.Iyo ni data sana.
Yu ar right Saulosi,the chaps thinking PF is dead shud now open their eyes to reality. VIVA PF, VIVA the peaceful people of Mansa!
Hey,
Lets test ourselves now. Allow Dora and check how much we can get from Petauke pending poll.
Saulosi is celebrating ignorance and close mindedness.Of course PF will have more appeal to riffraffs and the illeducated.Its just like Obama got more white votes from educated whites and got almost no support from bluecollar whites due to their low education and their backwardness.Its same here that PF has no support from most LT bloggers bcoz we’re a more educated class and more evolved.
@Enka who are you cheating ? Your contributions leaves a lot to be desired.I doubt if you have even finished high school.Just celebrate with Saulosi you ignorant man.
Cngratulations to PF.
Ba Enka I dont agree with you besides education has nothing to do with ones choice of a political party, there are many reasons why Saulosi wouldnt offer his support for UPND, MMD, FDDP and that has nothing to do with “mob” influence or any of us. Disagree with him over issues you think are not probable were as backing PF is concerned not the reasons you have given, you have no idea what influences the Republicans not to support Obama, Sorry to say the reasons you have there might just be an excuse of why they wouldnt fully support a Black man as their leader. Besides, dont bank so much on what you read on Cyber discussions, there’s much more to it than meets the eye and I think Saulosi has the right to choose who he wants to back lets be civil in our judgement!
What is ‘ignorant’ is the practice of not allowing others to express their choices and opinions freely. Too many criticise the choice of others and yet will not get up and actively make the changes they claim are needed. Where would Zambia be if some of this hot air went to better use. It’s just politics. There are winners and losers. Many bloggers here need to be on the ground to experience Zambia, have lost touch and are quick to throw out criticism, lack solutions, act like they have given up on Zed and yet return here to shout over others they disagree with as though their ‘educated’ thoughts are more relevant. Well done PF. Well done FDD. Hard luck to the other ‘big’ parties. Learn the lesson. Move on. Buy your ticket home in 2016 then talk about your vote instead of hating on…
Very true june. People who are on the blog do not vote at all. We do not even have time to see what is happening on the ground all over the country. I am telling you if you even went to Southern Province district/rural areas, you will find at least a road project going on there. For us is arm chair criticism chabe. No analysis of the real development issues on the ground. There is development in the country and the people who do not see it are the political analysts who want to destabilise the progress being achieved so far.
viva pf
This win is just the bait before the storm.Even Hillary thot she was the nominee till Obama romped home and Germany advanced in WWII but they got crushed badly in 1945.
We all knew that PF would win coz of the development taking place in Mansa after 49 years of independence. Congrats PF.
We also thank you the Opposition for the peaceful campaigns ….this is what we want in Zambia. Let other places take a leaf from the Mansa election which was conducted in a civilized manner.
Thank you the civilized people of Mansa.
Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia
Even if they combined and formed “UPNDMMDFDDUNIP” they will not win.
hahahaha what an alliance this would be ,I wonder how my grand mother would pronounce this
WELL DONE PF. ABAKALI BAKALI. INSHIMBI NINSHIMBI. UPND IS BEING PUSHED TO THE 4TH POSITION. YAAAABA!!!! IF FDD CONTINUE AT THIS RATE, THERE WILL BE NO HOPE FOR HH TO EVER BECOME PRESIDENT. REMEMBER FDD WAS VERY STRONG IN EASTERN PROVINCE AND CAN STILL TAKE UP THAT POSITION,MEANING UPND IS LIKELY TO LOSE EATERN TO FDD AND PF
Nice alliance with ………..? Who can risk joining that alliance?
Divide we fall. What type of opposition is this . I am sure they will cry that PF rigged.
this guy could not keep his zipper up if the liltle he had, wounder what he will do with political power in his hands, im thinking he will be running round naked, mothers lock up your daughters, poor mutinta, be strong mama.
UPND must check their failing stratergy in Luapula. They thought by including Mutale Halumango in their central committee, they will have free votes in Luapula. Unfortunately, Mutale Halumango is not a factor as it has been shown.
pf; 9,671 against opposition (fdd,mmd,upnd n unip); 2,932. u even high ratin yo dat der wil a change of govt in 2016! kep on dreamin its yo democratic rites.
Nipamaka ! Seleni tubombeko ! Well done FDD too.
Umuntu ni PF abashala nibakoswe.
THIS IS ABOUT 80% OF THE VOTE CAST.
WHEN WE SAY SATA HAS OUTPERFORMED ALL THE 3 PAST PRESIDENTS, PUT TOGETHER, SINCE KK IN TERMS OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, WE MEAN IT.
COME 2016, EXPECT ABOUT 90% OF THE General Election VOTE.
If illiterates are in majority they vote in ignorance. If tribalist are in majority they follow a tribal pattern in voting. These villagers dont even understand the effect of their vote. They have no idea about economic governance and dynamics.
We want development in Luapula and we are seeing it. You may call us tribal voters, villagers or illitrates but we have trounced you pants down.
@ZP (Zabwino Palibe) to hell with your economic dynamics.Mansa is not even a village but a town.Just because you picked up a tattered micro economics book and picked up that term from it doesn’t make you better than them.Remain hating on Lusaka times ,while well informed people on the ground votes.
@ZP,
I think it’s just wise to vent your anger and frustrations in more civilised ways than calling the people you sooo wanted to vote for your choice of man illitrates. They have outshined your litracy without speaking and there you go showing how much of a man you are by insulting them? You have no idea why they chose him, you have no clue what kind of expectations thay have, you dont even know how they fend for theirs day in day out, you cant even pin point how they have come this far, if you have no respect for your fellow human beings just because you are not on the same page with one man at state H then am glad they opted to ignore your choice! Wise, literate civilised gentlemen will accept this defeat and wait for the next chance, keep watching mansa for next time!
ba Cindy, kansi what do you really believe in? ku chinja chinja! these days she wants to agree with sauliso about everything. flip-flop
Popular support is only attainable if all barriers like: selected developmnt,tribal voting and any form of segregation is removed. A small developmnt to a villager who has never experience none in ages means the world to them. Cindy that is wise counsel.
@ Sure,
No!
@LD,
You are very right.
Why are these PF supporters excited? These result do not change the leadership skills at state house and the nature of insults have just got consolidated on them!
Who told you we want to change leadership at State House? We are happy with Micheal Chilufya Sata. He development agenda is there for all to see. Ba SATA Mwabombeni.
when PF lost in katete you never called them illiterate villagers.
JUST CRY OUT LOUD IT WILL HELP REDUCE THE PAIN OF LOOSSING SOO MANY ERECTIOOONS…. 2016 YOU MAY BRGIN CRYING IN ADVANCE KULIBE KULIBE ZABWINO ACHIMWENE VUVUVUVUVUVUVUVU pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff,..,.,..
Diarrhea in Up and Down camp. Hakaivotela Hamwine (HH)
pf victory has nothing to do with the imagined masive development going on in mansa.its because sata speakes their language.for as long as sata if presido is most likely to win in cb,luapula,part of northern.but lsk wil be trick.other provinces wil be shared between upnd and the rest as mmd joins unip in the archives.
Tribal or not bakaamba, there is change on the ground. There is more money in people’s pockets owing to the following:
1. There are newly employed staff in new districts and the civil service in general
2. There are new infrastructure projects going on in terms of roads, street lights, drainages, clinics, secondary schools, universities, office blocks, airport terminals etc.
People don’t care about the stupid wrangles in Kulima tower of Lusaka. As long as people can see change physically, they will vote for PF. Definately PF is better than MMD who were full of inertia to do even one simple project. Building a road was always seen as a mammoth undertaking that requires 10 years planning and 10 years mobilising funds and tendering…..
Unaware tabula kabepesho. The best you can do is simply to concead. There is nothing like imagined development. Everyone with eyes can see what PF can do in 2 yrs, compare with 20yrs in power. 2yrs echos. Zambia today is a massive construction site. Bravo PF and keep it up. Liars will die ne chikonko, kuichaila dye, tabazinkimana!
To people of Mansa congratulations, but please let us together develop Zambia without violence. 49 years of stagnation is very painful, we need new roads, electricity, better schools and health centers and this can only happen with change of our mind set.
@LUAPULA PREMIER
Stop dreaming or continue doing so at your own expense. Sata is the worst president since independence as evidenced by the fact that he cant face the nation for a press conference for over two years of his presidency!
We have had press conferences before tell me what they brought to uplift your livelihood.
Instead of always comparing our presidents with each other, you should broaden your scope and start comparing Zambia with other countries and their presidents. You will then see how privileged we are to have had the presidents we have had. Continentally and globally.
So for you a good president is the one who does a lot of press conferences? No wander even monkeys were urinating (kanitundila)
Ki ki ki.Shame on the opposition.
@Haleisa Halenya
lol….your name is funny. It was formerly a PF seat, so its there seat. Shame on the people of Mansa, because from now on all projects will come to a halt or some civil servant will steal the projects money. The next time they get to see the presidential chopper will be 2016.
opposition av alot 2 do! micheal i knw z far ahed of u, nw btween mmd n upnd who shud join who becoz der hs bn alot of tocs! opposition shud com 2gatha n allow my motha nawakwi 2 lead it as d result hs shown.
ok now come on, where is the fighting spirit in your comment?
A very tribal vote! The popularity of a party in Zambia can only be determined in only three provinces in Zambia. These are Lusaka , Western and Northwestern Provinces. These are the only three provinces that don’t vote on tribal lines!
Wabepafye………
Keep on hating and hurting.Lol
@ SEPO
Can you educate us where PF Chairman INONGE is from, and for which constituency she is MP???? Can you tell us where PF Minister MUBUKWANU is from and for which constituency he is MP? Let us just move forward as Zambians. This tribal thing won’t take us anywhere. You see now, mwambo kusabaila nomba you don’t even have your facts right. Kalyeniko ubwali, mwalaumfwa bwino.
@Mwembsehi, lol! My dear Inonge and Wina are an affirmation of my point. The point is Western Province does not vote on tribal lines. They voted for MPs from 4 different parties in 2011. Milupi only got 1 seat in his home province. This cannot happen in Luapula, Northern ,Eastern, Muchinga or Southern Provinces where voters look at the origin of the head of the part. So you mentioning Inonge and Mubukwanu just supports what I have written. So PF winning in Luapula is not a surprise. But any party winning a bye election in Lusaka or western province will be NEWS!
Corrections: that should read Inonge and Mubukwanu. And head of a PARTY!
@Keen Follower
YES, WE AGREE.
BUT WE VOTED FOR MEDIOCRE LEADERS AT STATE HOUSE, BECAUSE WE WANTED REAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN OUR LAND TO TAKE PLACE.
WE HAVE TRIED UNION, UNZA GRADUATES AND FARMERS BEFORE, IT NEVER WORKED. MWANA, WE TRIED EVERYTHING!
EXPECT, LUAPULA, CB, NORTHERN AND MUCHINGA TO FOLLOW THE SAME PATTERN. COME 2016…
Real change begins in urban areas. Lets have a by elecction in Kabwata. Villagers are still wazzzing the ‘donchi kubeba’ tune.
When we say luapula is no go area for other parties we mean it, this shows how people have come to appreciate the so far seen efforts by the governmentam teti bakane ukupisha pf in mansa when they look the infrastructure. tukalamicitafye ifipute ififine.
Wow HH will win 2016? Sure? Buying Nalumango can only make the party become no.4? Beaten by PF, unheard of FDD and finished MMD. UPND has a mountain to climb if they dream of forming government. Work hard guys – you have a chance. The race is still open.
UPND . HAKAIVOTELA HEKA
thanks for the advice.
Mufumbwe will always be for PF if we only give it to any opposition then we will continue to cry.
Stop dreaming! PF just won the seat by intimidating voters. Moreover, had UPND contested that seat they would have got it.
If you doubt what I am telling you, watch the drama if Musumba loses his appeal and the seat declared vacant. Mulondwe Muzungu will get it.
This is what you blogged yesterday.Are you still alive?
ZP (Zabwino Palibe) says:
November 22, 2013 at 8:56 pm | Permalink
If sata wins. I shalk comit suicide
Only the brave commit suicide
How do you call this a tribal vote when Sata is Bemba and Luapula people are Ushi? always looking for excuses. away from reality
Baa baa….Ushi, Bemba, Bisa same difference. As you can notice even the names are similar. Musonda and Chilufya are names which are common among bembas as well. The dialects are similar too
Well those names can be found among Nsengas and Kundas too in Eastern province. And how come bemba led MMD didn’t do well?
@ Phiri. The truth is that Phiri is not a bemba name and can never be a bemba name. Chilufya or Chitalu is not a Nsenga name unless it was acquired through intermarriages.
The bottom line is that people from Luapula are extremely tribal. That explains why PF got almost 100% in Luapula.
BLOGGERS, READ YOUR HISTORY.
AT ONE TIME, WHEN KK STARTED TARRING ROADS IN THE PROVINCE, WE GAVE HIM 100% IN THE GENERAL ELECTION.
LUAPULA HAS ALWAYS SET THE TREND FOR NP, CP AND NOW MP SINCE 1964.
wait for ka monde and siamunene to be booted out then you will wlso get the dose.
@LUAPULA PREMIER
Stop communicating to Zambians as if you are doing so to children! RB was doing the same thing of developing the nation and whats different from him is that he used to move all around the world to look for money to push for the development. Your/our mediocre president is quickly sliding our nation into debts as he does his unplanned development.
Let me mention that when some of us point out such we do it with passion for both our natural resources and human capital. Love for development alone(assuming really that Sata loves development) is not enough to warranty that he must be the supervisor at all costs.
Ba @Keen Follower, what money did sugar dad shi Mpundu RB bring into Zambia for development, Dictator Gadhafi’s money? Other than succeeding in forming a family “criminal” cartel, what projects can you point to that RB’s travels around the globe like a “modern day Marco polo” brought to Zambia? Ubufi, don’t think all Zambians have such short memories!
Anyways, congrats PF!
Opposition, you still have a lot of homework to do if you plan to be a factor in Zambian elections anytime soon. Otherwise, the way things are going, it will be another 20+ years of dominancy by a single party. Just like it was for MMD and UNIP before PF.
This wasn’t even close, wakeup opposition!!!!!!
People have eyes and they are seen what PF is doing everywhere, so come 2016 PF is win with a very big margin which will make UPND to fire HH from his position. Sata is a hard worker he is making roads everywhere including where HH stay. Wow
People of Mansa bravo. There is more come from PF government.
I do not intend to rain on PF’s parade but the biggest winners of the elections were FDD. PF must have expected to win a seat they previously held but FDD is the real shocker!
ba pf tulibakali
@Keen Follower
Bwana, please mention the projects, one by one!
Excuse me? ‘RB used to move all around the world to look for money to push for the development”…which development? Mpundu Trust? Please help me, Enumerate the projects and funders of those projects besides the Nigerian Mafia.
“sliding our nation into debts” All developed countries on earth, are where they are after second world war after massive borrowing! EVEN THE USA ECONOMY SURVIVES ON CHINA,,,,
I was about to ask him to list the projects he is talking about.
In 2011, Mansa had 88 943 registered voters. This means that this new MP only has 11% of the total vote from the possible voters. I would not be very excited with this result if I were a PF supporter. The vote that matters is the 85% which did not vote. It is only logical to point out that the 11% voters were just the overzealous PF supporter.
@Keen Follower, please stop falsely comforting yourselves instead of accepting the fact that PF has trounced you! The greatest strategists start by accepting defeat/failure, learning from the mistakes made, and then coming up with a wining formula.
In any by-election you expect low turnout than in the general election. This has been true in all the by-elections held so far. Including those that the PF has not won. But you did hear PF guys giving such lame excuses and analyses as you are trying to spin things here. Just accept the fact that the opposition at the moment is a little bit lost. None of them seem to have a nation-wide strategy to counter PF. Regionalism in politics and elections in Zambia is always a failing strategy—it never works!
LEARN!!!!!
These results just confirm that the people who participated in these bye-elections think with their tribe. Luapula has always been a PF stronghold, so no surprises there.
It’s interesting to note that out of the 88,000 plus registered voters in Mansa only a minority of 9,671 voted for PF. This is only about 11% of potential voters
Luapula you truly deserve PF! May you see the fruits of your choice sooner rather than later.As for the rest of the country Aluta continua!
@LUAPULA PREMIER
I wish we could have a live debate on topics like this!!! Judging from your observations, you seem to agree with my arguements and one is able to conclude that because for some reasons you hate the other side or people. Be advised that dont be driven by hate of other people but be very open to listen to other views so that you dont slide into the trap of the saying in Bemba, ‘munshebwa aile nama shinsha kubuko!’ When you defend wrong ideas you would seem like a person who is naked, and when told that they were naked, they turn around and say they didnt care!!!
Keen follower, there is no medicine to cure hatred hence LUAPULA PRIMIER will die from his hatred for BEMBAS. To know the road a head, ask those coming back. Northwestern province has always been in opposition even during UNIP they had Mushala, when MMD came they remained in UNIP so they will always be behind.
The PF victory was expected. It was their seat, they are in government and their leadership is predominately Bemba speaking. The real test is how they fair as a ruling party across the country.
Was it really?
So why was the UPND, UNIP and FDD doing wasting their money and resources in Mansa if they expected it? As far as I know, PF has won seats once held by non-PF MPs, and in places long believed to be MMD or UPND fertile grounds. It is only when PF wins that people seem to have “expected the results”, right?
I think a little bit of humility when you are fairly beat will do the opposition a lot of good!
the country is divided between pf ,mmd and upnd. The few seats mmd has in the benba lands will shift to pf in 2016 and mmd will remain in eastern province.Upnd will remain in southern province and a few pockets in western and north wwestern.Pf will hold all the areas they won in 2011 with lesser majority in Lusaka but increase majority in the bemba lands .The greatest threat to their re election is the 51% threshold. No one since ftj in 1991 has gained more than 51%. levy won by 29% in 2001 and RB by an even smaller margin in 2010.
ABA GREEN ABALOWA, HAKAYIVOTELA HAMWINE HH WHAT IS UR SAY AKA KENA NI KA WHITE WASH. FDD ATLEAST YOU ARE DOING FINE. NEMO NEZUBO YENTU TWIBA PF. VIVA SATA VIVA 2O16,
Action speaks louder than words PF ikali. when pedicle and mansa luwingu road is done PF will get 100% vote in 2016 in luapula and northern provinces.Imwe ba mbuli you shall just be crying as you do since PF came to power becouse of your jerlousy. MMD and UPND you are history now.
@ Keen Follower
I am afraid master ‘Keen Follower’, your thinking, reasoning etc seem to be too shallow. Sata is mortal just like anyone one of us. Where is Chiluba and Levy?
Should that prevent me from appreciating his efforts in developing our country?
Who then do you want to upgrade airports for me and my children?
To build new universities?
To build new clinics?
To tar our township roads? etc etc. Do we have enough money of our own to do all these things? Do you want me to continue moving around with a shoe brush in my jacket pocket whenever I walk through the dusty Lusaka streets?…
Great Britain which is a developed country is building airport from money borrowed from China, a colossal sum of 3.2 billion pounds.
Capital projects will always be implemented with the help of our friendly countries. Sata is a great leader and people will only appreciate him after he has long gone, but as for now it is not what you are called but what you answer to. He has answered to our cry of luck of infrastructure development in Zambia.
You are too tribal that’s were the problem is.you cant tell me everything pF has done since coming into power is the rit thing bt wit u even wen they kill Innocent people you go bravo PF.wen you talk abt dev.we don’t just look at roads they are many factors to dev than just roads.personally i can argue and say there’s nothing sata is doing different from wat RB did.Rb built those so called formula one roads aswel within his three years in power.so wats so special abt the roads sata is building?at the end of the day they are all campaign strategies.dont be a tribalist.we are all zambians
Who is more popular?ki,ki,ki,ki!Bravo pf!Don’t mind demons like Ndobo,ZP,Enka,Australia engineer,senior fo ol ish citizen,Nostradum,sepo,Goncalve,Nakamushota etc.They think blogging thru out will take them anywhere.Pf,maka ! keep on!
Being popular amongst the ignorant,uninformed and the illeducated is not something to celebrate.
Even slavery was popular in southern US states but it was wrong and thus U.S industrial might never arose from the ignorant southerners.It was enlightened northern states that led US to its might and all its ivy league schools arose in the north..Think again if you think being popular with the illeducated folks is a good thing.
Other regions please learn from mansa how to conduct peaceful campaigns without the loss of blood viva mansa people. keep it up and shame them. once again PF come 2016 we vote for you and you are second to non.
Sorry ba opposition mukawinako limbi.Lol
We need one more cabinet officer.
The opo here says actually pf has won by 11% so nothing to celebrate.What about them?far less than what pf has got thereby still making pf a genuine winner. ki,ki,ki,ki.ki,ki. keep on hullucinating.Watch out 4 2016,u will cry even the more.
Even if Chitalu Chilufya scoops the Mansa Central Seat, it will not make a single difference in your lives you sufferers and paupers, only Chitalu Chilufya has made a gain. After all lies is what you belief in and lies shall lead you into more terrible sufferings. Just find more trees where there are catapillars may be they shall make a difference in your poverty striken economies.
Sour grapes! How would these “sufferers and paupers” as you call them, benefited had the opposition won the seat especially sine they are not even in government?
Mmmmm, jealous muleke ba mudala!!!
A bright future a head, SATA is a pragmatic politician with vast experience and he is quietly working.
Why all the poisonous ranting against voters? It is their choice! They have reasons why they believe in PF. You failed to convince them to vote for your preferred candidate.
Ba SEPO naimwe muli cipuba nobu Lozi bwenu.tamwakatale umutekapo cikala cenu
People of Luapula are not tribalists. Mufulira, was an ANC stronghold despite the majority of the people being from Luapula and the ANC was led by Harry. RB thought that by freeing Chiluba (MHSRIP) he would get the Luapula vote . MMD did not win. A chief was campaigning for a distinguished civil servant who stood on an MMD ticket but lost miserably. Before the results you were saying that the PF will lose the seat because it has become unpopular (commit suicide if you can). You were you not saying the PF will win the election on tribal lines before the election results. Luapula has the right to vote for a party of its choice without being branded tribalists just like people from other areas. There is no alliance between Ushis and Bembas. They call us Batubulu, a derogatory word.
Its a fact, thats if election was to be held tooday, PF can stil win lusaka, copperbelt urban,Muchinga and Northern. MMD can still win Eastern,N/western. UPND can win southern and Major parts of western.Central province can be shared by the three parties.
Party votes % of votes
PF 9671 77
FDD 1279 10
MMD 1103 9
UPND 388 3
UNIP 162 1
Chloroquin you are an embarrassment to the nation how can you tell the people of mansa villagers you tell me where you come from wemwanawandoshiwe cakukalipafye ati bapf bawina
Nga Engineer wabufi waku Australia no ndob wakwe bali kwi bamambala
They have crawled back into the holes they came from
There is nothing new in the voting pattern in Luapula ever since PF came to prominence. What is disheartening is that depite the confusions in the ruling party, these guys will still go ahead and vote for PF. So what are they voting for, one would ask? This is perharps why some bloggers are saying that tribal voting is at play here. No matter what, vote for your own, so the pattern seems to suggest.
Tribal or not bakaamba, there is change on the ground. There is more money in people’s pockets owing to the following:
1. There are newly employed staff in new districts and the civil service in general
2. There are new infrastructure projects going on in terms of roads, street lights, drainages, clinics, secondary schools, universities, office blocks, airport terminals etc.
People don’t care about the stupid wrangles in Kulima tower of Lusaka. As long as people can see change physically, they will vote for PF. Definately PF is better than MMD who were full of inertia to do even one simple project. Building a road was always seen as a mammoth undertaking that requires 10 years planning and 10 years mobilising funds and tendering…..
PF really needed this victory after the Kafulafuta, Chipata and Mkaika trouncing, otherwise their collective morale would have been shattered irrepairably. What with the country being in permanent election mode, this state of affairs will be changing from time to time.
Helen we munandi, bushe naumfwa, have u heard akalimbusha ? Abati, ”they are saying” ba Puta Fyushi,pa fyamba (ba PF)baletila nabapita mukusala ukwali ku Mansa mailo. Ala nomba elyo lwanya nomba kanshi, uku ku Luapula li bange fye no bucende epela aikona, nabakateka bali ilishenye sana pa mulandu wafi gololo ku Luapula eico, mune eko twalakukila.
@ SENIOR ENGINEER RTD
YOUR EFFORT IN EDUCATING THE YOUNG BLOGGERS IS APPRECIATED.
AT INDEPENDENCE, MUFULIRA & SOUTHERN PROVINCE WERE STRONGHOLDS OF ANC DESPITE THE FACT THAT MUFULIRA WAS PREDOMINANTLY BEMBA SPEAKING.
THE ANC LEADER WAS A TECHNOCRAT, CIGAR SMOKING & MORE EDUCATED HARRY NKUMBULA. UNIP WAS BEING LED BY PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, SIMON KAPWEPWE & ROBERT MAKASA, & CIVIL SERVANTS LIKE KENNETH KAUNDA. AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT WAS A MORE PROGRESSIVE UNIP, WHICH CARRIED THE DAY.
GIVE SATA A CHANCE TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING OUR COUNTRY ON BORROWED MONEY, GOD WILL BLESS US WITH ANOTHER LEVY OR A KABIMBA WHO WILL LOOK AT OUR INDEBTEDNESS DIFFERENTLY. HE WILL APPEAL FOR REWRITING OUR DEBT.
Dont forget that Luapula dwellers usually use Ubwato as there mode of transport . Ubwato is what Pf uses as there party symbol.Thats why Pf had to carry the day so easy.So it ‘s not because of development which is going in Luapula, in other areas development is still happening but PF lost by elections.
Bane natusebana sana only 338 votes when we are saying our man is gaining popularity. Yaba ni loss zoona by 28.6:1 to PF. May be lets improve on our strategy. I know we will beat them also in Zambezi. Our supports don’t worry we will beat them 40:1
Northeners are very realistic. They not do talk tribalism. They just act tribalistically! They vote for their own. They employ their own. They take development to the North. That is all! Soon everybopdy will be a Northerner or be owned by a Northerner!
Intriguing observation!
@ Keen Follower
Please do do turn my postings into cheap politics when you start talking about “hating the other side or people”. Who are those people? MMD? FDD? UPND? etc
Base your arguments on real facts of development projects. Just provide tangible facts on RBs or Levy’s or Chiluba’s or combined projects and funders! Nigerian mafia or Gaddafi banks?
jealous will not take you anywhere.Admit PF is there for the next 20 years especially when they do all the major ROADS in provinces. MMD,UPND and UNIP will be history for our grandchildren.VIVA PF LONG LIVE SATA
We all know that Bembas will not vote for someone who is not a Bemba, that is why FDD, MMD and PF are above UPND because it is headed by someone from other part of the country..!! This gives me courage that HH will win in 2016 because all non Bembas will vote for HH not any Bemba persons…..!!
Bufi ubwafita fititi. Mazoka was a the best choice for Zambia at his time we voted for him and manunyunya. I do not see the likes of Mazoka today in UPND. We miss him my his rest in peace.
@LUAPULA PREMIER
1.Tangible Developmental Project by Might Sata
i. presidential Salary increase for cash made by RB,Levy and Chiluba.
ii. PFs and Chinese banquet at State house after election 2011.
iii. Betrayal of the Barotse people by prominent PF Linyungandambo.
iv. Nepotism and tribalism at its highest- this is done openly for even blind people to see. ask Kabimba and Scot
v. Corruption at its highest – presidential permits are in place to prosecute or not high profile personalities.
vi. Only Sata and KK so far lead ifipuba who bow down and say yes sir when told mulifipuba!
vi. In today’s democracy Sata is the only sitting president in Zambia to preside over a party with cadres killing each other within the party(very unusual – more like a goat biting a dog), Panga Fighters -…
2. Chiluba legacy
1. In 1991, if any Zambian tuned to BBC and Chiluba was speaking as president, he represented Zambian Presidency very well. There is no leader who marched Chiluba in Africa – he did not have ifipuba language!
2. He worked on reshaping the functions of government and private.
3. Essential commodities which used to be a problem was solved up to this date.
4. Transport problems were sorted out.
5. He empowered Zambians by the sale of house – though debatable.
6. In the first term, Chiluba tried to work closely with his cabinet and things moved well, things only changed when he worked closely with some secretary general of some party. He reached his worst times when some lieutenant supported him for third term
3. Levy
i. He took over when things really were at their worst. Civil servants were getting salaries of average US$70 per month – THAT WAS SERIOUS – anyone who came from outside Zambia wondered how Zambians could afford to ware smiles!
ii. Levy was humble in that he listened to criticism and took appropriate actions to them – that is how he got trapped into assisting some section of media who took advantage of him of which there is a bone to chew even now.
iii. Levy copied the manifesto of UPND on agriculture and implemented it and the result followed that Zambia came to have bumper harvests for a number of years only to be slowed down by PF government.
iv. After the debts were cancelled and copper fortunes(high demand and high price), development was easy because cash was available!
RB
i. He had the easiest job to simply build on the foundation made by Levy’s rule!
ii. Foreign investment reached its peak during his rule.
iii. Infrastructure development: schools, hospitals/clinics, roads etc were in top gear. Of course he was a bit stubborn by putting his portrait each time a project was underway or completed.
iv. Foreign relation was super, one may want to recall that the entire presidency of SA together with some ministers visited Zambia for a couple of day.
v. He used to hold press conferences, even monkeys can attest to that at state house, for now you can ask snakes when press conferences are held.
In Luapula, PF’s bedroom, it was expected. We want a bye election in Lusaka District or Kitwe.
Welcome FDD not MMD a party now under strangers.
I M 60. TODAY, THE COUNTRY REMAINS LARGELY UNCHANGED. WE HAVE HAD 3 PRESIDENTS SINCE KK & YET WITH LITTLE TO TALK ABOUT IN TERMS OF TANGIBLE DEVELOPMENT IN OUR LAND. KK BUILT 2 UNIVERSITIES. THANKS TO HIS EFFORT, I ATTAINED MY PHD. COUNTRIES LIKE KENYA WTH NO MINERAL RESOURCE SEEM TO HAVE ADVANCED 10 FOLD SINCE INDEPENDENCE. KENYA, TODAY HAS MORE THAN 5 UNIVERSITIES & SO ARE NEARLY ALL OUR NEIGHBORS. PLSE FOLKS COUNSEL ME, I NEED YR ADVICE, WHY SHOULD I DISRUPT MY CURRENT GRZ FROM BUILDING MORE UNIVERSITIES 4 THE FUTURE OF MY KINDRED, JUST BECOS OF SOME IMAGINARY CORRUPTION? NEVR AGAIN SHALL MY KINDRED BE DECEIVED BY THE EDUCATION, POPULARITY ETC OF AN INDIVIDUAL & VOTE HIM OR HER INTO POWER WITH NO ATTESTED ATTRIBUTES 4 PRACTICABILITY AS WAS THE CASE WITH ANDY & MIKE.
#22,The first advice is as an adult,don’t shout when you are blogging (use of capital letters)
2.The development taking place is as a result of Zambian taxpayers.UNIP did not build the University of Zambia and RB build the Levy Mwanawasa hospital but the tax from the people of Zambia.
3.Over 50 % of infrastructure development currently taking place is concentrated in Bemba land and am not surprised when you say you don’t want to disrupt the current GRZ from building more universities in Bemba land.
4.It is not the number of universities that indicate Educational development but the programmes offered and whether they are internationally accredited.
5.We are failing to maintain the current Universities,so what’s the point of building new ones which might become white elephants?
It’s #72,THE Mpundu Trust,PhD and NOT #22
@ Keen Follower
I am afraid Zambia may never allow you to ascend to power with such cheap analysis of our political situation. All we need are more universities like Mpundu Trust above has said.
Press conference?
If you are educated or if you have traveled, please ask Swanas or South Africans about how many press conferences Mandela, Zuma etc has held.
MONKEYS AND snakes ?
I am sorry, I cannot speak to monkeys or snakes as you suggested becos their intellect is like yours, it is too low.
Mr.Premier,They say comparisons are odious.You can not compare the the way the South African or US governments function to the PF.
Obama from time to time holds press conferences to clarify issues pertaining the affairs of the nation or world peace.Please subscribe to multichoice and watch CNN.
The PF cabinet ministers are afraid to articulate issues concerning their ministries and if they do they expose their ignorance.
Don’t just support for the sake of it.We voted the current party into power and therefore we deserve answers from the president since his ministers are stone cold afraid to be sacked.
@LUAPULA PREMIER
Your correct spelling is LUAPULA not LAPULA!
You have written here that you elected mediocre leadership for massive infrastructure development, but then you assume that my analysis is cheap – mediocre and cheap are in the same vain, dont you think that you are confused debater?
Botswana and South Africa are our good neighbours, but I dont look to them for leadership lessons. I have followed, a bit of Ronald Reagan, and more of George Bush snr, G W Bush and now B Obama. USA is the leading democracy in the world, therefore, its only right to follow them. A president or party must have an agenda and not haphazard MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT, creating a debt trap for the nation.