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Colonel Chanda denies sying PF will crumble without GBM

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TOURISM and Arts Minister Jean Kapata (gesturing) in a conversation with Muchinga Province Minister Gerry Chanda (centre) and Bank of Zambia Deputy Governor for administration Tukiya Kankasa-Mabula in Linda Township in Lusaka
TOURISM and Arts Minister Jean Kapata (gesturing) in a conversation with Muchinga Province Minister Gerry Chanda (centre) and Bank of Zambia Deputy Governor for administration Tukiya Kankasa-Mabula in Linda Township in Lusaka

Kanyama Member of Parliament Gerry Chanda has dismissed media reports attributed to him saying that the Patriotic Front (PF) will crumble without members such as Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba popularly known as GBM.

In an interview in Chinsali today, Colonel Chanda said the story carried by a local tabloid suggesting that the PF would crumble if Honourable Mwamba leaves the party are unfounded and should be dismissed with the contempt it deserves.

Colonel Chanda who is also Muchinga province Minister said that he is a serious and strong supporter of the PF who also believes in the leadership of party president Edgar Lungu.

He said that what was reported by the local tabloid that the PF will crumble if GBM leaves the party is a total fabrication.

Colonel Chanda said that he cannot sink so low as to discredit a party he has supported to where it is at the moment.

He has since challenged journalists to be professional in their execution of duties and ensure that they report objectively and the truth.

Colonel Chanda has also challenged GBM to resign from the PF if he thinks that he was a factor in the PF so that he could be met in the battle field in a by-election.

The local tabloid yesterday carried a story attributed to Colonel Chanda suggesting that GBM who has since endorsed Hakainde Hichilema in the January 20, 2015 by- election would make the PF crumble if he leaves the party.

Meanwhile, the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) in Mbala District in Northern Province has called on Kasama Central Member of Parliament Geoffrey Mwamba to resign from the party and form his own party.

Addressing journalists in Mbala this morning, Mbala District Chairperson Matilda Lungu says Mr. Mwamba was wrong to insinuate that PF members in Northern Province have endorsed the candidature of UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema.

Mrs Lungu says Mr.Mwamba has no people in Mbala district stating that the people who attended his press briefing in Kasama were paid to say what they said.

Mrs. Lungu has since challenged Mr.Mwamba to resign from the PF so that he see that he is not popular in Northern Province.

And Mbala Constituency Chairman Ackim Simukoko says Mr.Mwamba is not as popular in the PF as he claims.

He says Kasama Central lawmaker should emulate former PF Secretary General Wynter Kabimba and form his own political party rather than bringing confusion in the ruling party.

28 COMMENTS

  1. Dipak Patel is using online media to dishout lies to create fake hype for HH. Sanity is returning to Zambia. Zambian voters are now ignoring the lies dished out by ZWD, Movi TV and Zambianeye. Hyper HH will have a shock of his life, while Dipak walks to his Indo-canadian bank with millions got from HH’s sponsors overseas.

  2. Sept 6,2013:As the results for Mkaika Constituency bye elections pierced through the hearts of PF members last night, PF sources immediately pointed fingers at the raucous Defence Minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM), who they have accused of costing the party the elections.

    “Wherever GBM has been leading campaigns, we have lost elections. He was campaign manager in Muchinga Constituency and we lost to Howard Kunda, when we should have easily won. He was in the forefront of the campaigns in Chipata and Mkaika, where he overshadowed the campaign manager, Edgar Lungu, and look at the results,” the sources complain.

    “It shows that people do not appreciate GBM and you cannot make him the face of the campaigns. It’s like whenever people see him they get irritated. He brings so much…

    • He brings so much confusion, has no courtesy and he brags a lot. Zambians don’t like people who brag. They hate boastful people. We as PF must know that. So GBM is a liability,” the emotional sources add.

      “He went to Mkaika with a lot of thugs from Lusaka just like he did in Chipata. Thugs who were fighting other PF members. Well, we’ve been punished. Particularly, people of Eastern Province do not like aggressive people. GBM comes across as aggressive.”

      The sources say GBM’s ‘senseless’ endorsement crusade has clearly been rejected by the people as evidenced by the landslide defeat of the ruling party.

      “We should be spending time explaining what we are doing for the people. We must focus on development. Miles Sampa [Commerce Deputy Minister] was right to caution against these…

    • Continue…… He brings so much confusion, has no courtesy and he brags a lot. Zambians don’t like people who brag. They hate boastful people. We as PF must know that. So GBM is a liability,” the emotional sources add.

      “He went to Mkaika with a lot of thugs from Lusaka just like he did in Chipata. Thugs who were fighting other PF members. Well, we’ve been punished. Particularly, people of Eastern Province do not like aggressive people. GBM comes across as aggressive.”

      The sources say GBM’s ‘senseless’ endorsement crusade has clearly been rejected by the people as evidenced by the landslide defeat of the ruling party.

      “We should be spending time explaining what we are doing for the people. We must focus on development. Miles Sampa [Commerce Deputy Minister] was right to caution…

    • Conti……. Miles Sampa [Commerce Deputy Minister] was right to caution against these senseless endorsements. The Vice President also warned against the endorsements. He has been proved right. It’s time to stop GBM. He is making the party unpopular.”

      “GBM repels people. They don’t appreciate his attitude and behaviour. This loss is on his head,” the angry sources say.

    • Why would the deputy governor be party of these people be part of this group of PF party people? Is she bankrolling their manoeuvres or is she making sure her job is secure? Did they appoint her? These are the undesirable anomalies. The lady should be compiling economic indicators. We are not asking for too much, just to compile after all she is an administrator. She looks like she is a nice woman but to be honest she is behaving badly and she should stop.

  3. Munjeleleko ba Zambia Munjeleleko

    PF Members can’t be bought. People of Northern Province can’t be bought. Our people know what the PF has done.
    “Munjeleleko nalifilwa ukwisa tekeshya meetung pachibelushi”
    We will bring water in Mpulungu.
    We are paying farmers
    We reduce mealie meal by setting up local milling plants

    2015 vote PF(Edgar)

    I thank you

  4. You pf supporters or cadres you will be shocked when results are finally released. If you follow the lies of Emmanuel Mwamba and Harry Kalaba you shall be in the dust bin. Giving money to tax drivers, hauling cadres from one city to another for EL’s rallies are simply smoke screens. Viva HH my president for Zambia’s development.

  5. Leave Dipak alone, we know what is happening on the ground, we are voting and my entire family scattered the whole to vote HH period. We leave in a democratic country. It’s my vote my choice, no one should take away from me. Vote your Vodker, thats your choice

    • My family is 127 strong plus the whole of Mporokoso, Mpika, Mungwi and Kaputa are voting EL. I very well know that like before, the entire Southern Province and parts of Western Province will vote HH but the two provinces are not Zambia. We are seeing through lies and deceit. Remain pa mpemba another 2 years guys and invest or or is it lose more?

  6. If HH under five hav a crowd its real but if its edgar its fake mwebantu abatonga mitima bubi wen I ask a tonga why shud I vote for under 5 they all hav one answer (lekani mutonga naye atekeko is this a reason mwebantu.ma rubbish

  7. @ Kelvin,
    We know you with your bloody thirsty Panga Family that your Vodga Chapona Lungu went to call the stoke bora called Boko haram and that is why your grand father is running up and down to find ways and means of helping but he will fail to bring them to Zambia because I am watching out on the satelight checking what is going on.

    Mubwato Emetuli tamuli Maka!!!!!!!!!!!!

  8. Ours is a country that loves to vote for mediocre candidates, then complain bitterly when things go wrong. Take a look at the guys who were persecuted by the PF regime, most of them have now regrouped and giving support to PF. Former father is one example. How many times did the former father apologise to Zambians for having campaigned for PF?

  9. GBM U WILL START CRYING SOON ,
    GIVE SOME MORE MONEY TO YOUR (200) SUPPORTERS AND RELEASE ANOTHER STATEMENT ,
    BIG BALOON U WANT POWER BY USING FORCE ,AT LEAST U HAVE SEEN THAT U ARE NOTHING IN NORTHERN BY NOW,

    APOLOGIZE AND SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE.
    U ARE THE ONLY ONE SO FAR NOT IN SUPPORT WITH YOUR PRESIDENT.

    VIVA LUNGU
    20 JAN 2015
    VOTE LUNGU

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