United party for national Development(UPND) Secretary General Stephen Katuka has reacted to Sunday Chanda’s comments that UPND President Hakainde Hichilema was scared of the 50%+1 and the Presidential running mate clause. In a statement released to the media, the UPND Secretary general said that his party is going to win the 2016 margin by a huge margin that even this 50% + 1 will not count.
” HH has been consistent in 50% +1; we are going to win 2016 by a huge margin that even this 50% + 1 will not count. If they had wanted they would have even gone 80% + 1 we would still be fine, ” Mr Katuka said.
Below is the full statement
Official Statement
12th December 2015
We were not surprised to see chatterbox Sunday Chanda being quoted by the Daily Nation saying, “HH is against 50% plus 1.” First and foremost a good paper would have called HH to verify this outrageous claim from Sunday Chanda.
Secondly the media that published the story should have asked Sunday where HH issued such a statement or said anything to that effect. But we feel duty bound to set the record straight.
First what did the people of Zambia want in that constitution, they wanted a provincial assembly, they wanted Ministers to be appointed from outside parliament, they wanted the state to be under obligation to provide fair and justiciable education, health and shelter systems, where if they failed the citizens would take them to court.
The latter elements of the right to education, health, shelter, water etc. are the things contained in the Bill of Rights, which cannot and will never be discussed in parliament; this is the first blunder the ignorant Sunday Chanda must address.
In the second reading we told Ngosa Simbyakula to withdraw this bill because experience and foresight taught us that this constitution was going to be manipulated and true to our fears, changes were made. So were we not right? We are telling this ignorant Sunday Chanda that we were fighting for the rights of the Zambians to be preserved. Sunday Chanda would have been a beneficiary of a robust bill of rights which essentially would have given the people power to hold the Government accountable.
Instead of people like him failing to go to school because they cannot afford the fees, and end up being political hoodlums and sycophants surviving on political patronage, Sunday Chanda would have benefitted from the economic rights we were fighting for during second reading. But what do we get for a thank you, we get lies from Sunday Chanda. HH has been consistent in 50% +1; we are going to win 2016 by a huge margin that even this 50% + 1 will not count.
If they had wanted they would have even gone 80% + 1 we would still be fine. To illustrate how foolish his comment is about 50% + 1, there was nothing to vote against while in parliament as the PF never proposed any amendments in respect of articles 47 and 101 on the draft constitution so what is Sunday Chanda dreaming about?
Our advice to everyone is simple, stop listening to Sunday Chanda and his gang, their specialty is misinformation as they did “Don’t Kubeba” on you in 2011, they will do the same in 2016.
They are liars and they lie without shame, that is the problem, they are liars without a conscious and here they are adulterating the constitution for their own benefit by taking away a critical component of self-Government which was the proposed a provincial assembly. The reason is simple, they want to continue stealing at the center and people like Sunday will continue being sycophants serving selfish politicians. Vote UPND for a leadership that is honest and has integrity.
Hon. Stephen Katuka, MP
UPND Secretary General
Very childish. Typical of UPND
Sunday Chanda was deputy to Brian Hapunda. The when Hapunda was fired the position remained vacant and recently given to Frank Bwalya…that show you how irrelevant Sunday Chanda is to PF…and to get attention he will always attack the in-coming president HH.
We thank you UPND
Was this press release really of, by and from the office of the Party Secretary General for a party aspiring to lead Zambians??????
Folks, if authentic, then UPND has an existential threat of remaining in its traditional back bench. Such diatribes of immaturity delivered with unparalleled tone of a retard only manifests a dangerous disaster in SG.
Which sober Zambians can such a release of insults and hatred win?????
Really childish response from a CEO of a major political party. This man must be very pompous – what a waste.
I agree with senior citizen, that does not sound like a press release it sound more of a retaliation.
We keep telling you that UPND chaps are very pompous. Look at how childish the above statement is. Even 80 % plus 1? Really?? Can UPND please get rid of such chaps if they are to win any presidential election please. UPND take a seat 2016 is around the corner, tell me what you will do differently and not UPND will win, How???? we have heard this song before. Grow up…Eish
Please, when you do win, please bring back Article 116. It is time to actually have division of power in our country. It will be a toxic mix to have 50%+1 combined with this misguided appointment of parliamentarians as ministers.
Now this is why I still wont upgrade this party from the Under 5 status and have fan at throwing stones on my. Let me break it down right here in 3 points why I’m saying this.
1) This statement has been issued by the party CEO and therefore endorsed by the entire party including HH and his so called smart team
2) It is a known fact that if threshold is set at 80% +1 Zambia would never get anybody elected. Not even Chiluba got that many votes. This just show how immature, childish and emotional UPND leadership is. They just don’t think through what they put out. They call Sunday Chanda’s point ridiculous, I think theirs is even more ridiculous
3) We all know that Sunday Chanda is a paid I D I O T, but to enter the ring with him and put up an even more I D I O T I C…
3) We all know that Sunday Chanda is a paid I D I O T, but to enter the ring with him and put up an even more I D I O T I C performance makes him come out on top as a Hero. And who knows, this could have just been a bait from him and you fell for it.
UPND need to be truthful and realistic and measured in their approach. Why would their troops go out to campaign if the leadership believes they have the 2016 election in the bag by 80% margin . This is what we call being under 5 and shooting themselves in the foot. Anyway all the best to you
Iwe cikala…Chiluba got 88% in 1991
Exactly my thoughts. So disappointing from a neutral point. I even prefer the responses FDD gives through their spokesperson. The moment you start responding to any outbursts from paid I.D.I.O.T.S you start to glorify the other I.D.I.O.T and leave the voter with a simple choice of which I.D.I.O.T looks less I.D.I.O.T.I.C!!!!
it is really disappointing to read such a response from an honourable member of parliament especially that he responds on behalf of a party. To begin a debate by calling someone a chatterbox and ignorant does not depict any honour as expected from an MP. UPnd stance to vote against the constitution simply stated they were not happy with the contents which included 50 + 1. The honourable MP should know that if you have reservations in parliament you abstain not vote against. He should also know the Provincial assembly has just been packed not thrown out. instead of debating issues the MP goes on to debate Sunday Chandas education. Really!!! Finally as a law make he should know better than to stop pipo from listening to someone. What happened to freedom of expression
But it was ok for Lungu ukutumpika ama teachers and civil servants ku CB?
Admit it, Sata was the master of insults and mockery. PF has it in abundance.
That’s Zambian political talk for you.
The simple truth is that the PF is so scared sh*t of the coming election that they know that the cant even win a minority President. The need some nashala neka parties to have a chance. The have delivered this wonderful and long awaited 50 %+1 NOT OUT OF CONVICTION BUT political machination/calculation/greed and desire to stay in power at all cost. CONGRATULATIONS Zambians and UPND for putting pressure on PF and forcing it to do what it would otherwise NOT have done.
Hh can’t win next election
and you will vote for all us?
It’s wishful and wild hallucinations to imagine UPND will ever ever form government under the 50%+1 constitutional requirement.
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Am very sure that political pundits even in UPND have already given up for it is not just possible that UPND and HH will ever win to form government. If you know how this 50%+1 works, you wouldn’t be wasting your time dreaming.
Edgar Lungu is President for the next five years. 50%+1 works on development as opposed to promises. 2016 will be 56%PF ECL and 41% opposition combined.
Zambian politics and constitution real issues to write about that matters
Instead of addressing the social security and national Healthy care these parties preoccupation are very trivial in the Constitution
For Instance instead of advocating for repilling of NAPSA act to address the social security arising from mines retrenchments for those under retirement age as they navigate formal and informal in defined and undefined benefits ,these parties are still trivial
look at the national healthy act also and see the deficiencies that is what is current a matter to our people
Its a point that HH can not win as above so be relevant then
Even if southern province western north western voted 100% for upnd they can’t make it 50%. Maybe they are counting votes on online medium. Kikikiki
HH Techilema, you are lying through your teeth, just like the nickname you use. Look at figures. HH lost by 27,000 votes last January by election. Southern Province had 600,000 voters on the register, of which only 300,000 voted for HH, 20,000 for Lungu. If 500,000 vote for HH, what would be the outcome? You are just a dull ***** in the USA!
Hh techilema you so dull who has told that HH will only get votes from southern,western and North western.If you are saying Bembas will not vote for HH then in you dream that all the people in Lusaka and copperbelt are Bemba you dreaming.Most towns like Lusaka and Ndola and Kitwe have mixed tribes.So open your eyes.This 2016 one will cry.
HH Tecilema, they always win online. Even when Micheal Chilifya Sata was beating Hichilema hands down, they were calling for live debates and such illusions. The coming elections will even be more illusive for HH, coalitions will be formed before he even blinks and he will cry foul!
People being retrenched cannot wait to be employed to receive a social scheme from napsa or reach 65 yrs to access the retirement In between there has to be a social scheme that works Napsa when employement is terminated notified and employee becomes eligible for the social scheme payment for the living wage when employed new employee communicates the social scheme number and changed status of employee and ontributions becomes normal until when retirement age is attained not what we are seeing on the copper belt That is what MPS are supposed to address People contribute to NAPSA for social security when the employability is not there and the scheme acts like an insurance…
Kamwale the number of registered voters in Zambia stands at about 7.5 million. Are you saying Southern, western and northwestern can have 4 million voters? of course not so when HH techilema says if even if these provinces voted 100% for HH he still will not make the 50 % + 1.
Where do you get your figures from? Look at the CURRENT REGISTER at ECZ which does not yet included those who are registering now. Look at the figures as at the January by election and answer your own question?
Your comments smiles tribal. You mean there are no people in northern ,Eastern, Lusaka ,central and copperbelt provinces who will vote for UPND .Both PF and UPND will be voted throughout the country, it will just depends how many votes each party will get from each one’s stronghold plus Lusaka and copperbelt provinces.
Let’s see how hunger and hardships make pipo vote…..
Note please that it will be 50 per cent of votes cast not registered voters.
Libala ward you are right but we were working on the extremes supposing all registered voters in the 3 provinces voted the 50 % threshold cannot be met
Ba up and down this marks the end of yo under 5 party…where will you get all that… The words are written on the wall that 111 representatives of people voted for and yo ever ‘baby crying party’ 37…simple math shows that the furthest u can get is about 20 % with one tribe contributing over 90%…
75% plus goes to pf to chagwa-
Learn something from your colleagues mmd mps all supporting progressive party, the party with peoples interests at heart…
come august 2016, we will show you red card…
and continue suffering just to end your sentence
Never knew Stephen Katuka is member of parliament…where please, in Zambia or somewhere mp for ingombe ilede
Serious need help on this one I have tried to google but its giving me’this mp does not exist’
You need to check on the parliamentary website on MPs than expressing your ignorance.
Your PC may be using PF processor instead of Intel?
LETS NOT BE DRAWN TO hh AGAIN.The issue here is whether we hv a good constitution or not.Forget HH.Its just a cheap way of diverting attention from real debate.PF is full of HH at every whim
The 50% plus 1 is okay. Lets see how best it works for us as a nation. Indeed this is a majority representation. However I need guidance with regard to the running mate issue. How democratic will it be if the candidate attains less than the majority threshold and has to assume power in case of death by the incumbent, God forbid. If such a one assumes power how consistence is this to the 50%plus 1 majority requirement? I’m of the view that there should be harmony in the constitution. In case this matter has been taken care of in the constitution I beg to be forgiven for wasting time on the blog.
Good question. Unfortunately, our “Honorable” MP’s did not consider that we may end-up without elected Vice President, or for that matter, neither appointed one.
All the blabbing for what:
1. If President dies, VP becomes President, but who will become VP?
2. If VP dies, who will become new VP?
So much about “brightness” of our political and legislative “elite”. Solved one issue, created two more?
UPND NEEDS TO REALIZE THAT THIER IMPENDING VICTORY WILL COME WITH A HUGE RESPONSIBILITY TO FIX ALL THE MESS THAT THE PF HAS CREATED IN ZAMBIA. THIS PATCHWORK “CONSTITUTION YACHIGAMABA” SHOULD BE THE FIRST ITEM TABLED TO RECTIFY. THIS IS NOT WHAT THE PEOPLE WANTED.THE PPEOPLE WANT A PEOPLE DRIVEN CONSTITUTION. UPND SHOULD REALIZE THAT THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA HAVE REACHED A POINT OF NATURAL DISTRUST FOR POLITICIANS AND GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL. WE ARE WARNING YOU UPND. WE THE PEOPLE WILL NO LONGER TAKE EXCUSES. NO EXUCSES ON THE ECONOMY,CONSTITUTION AND WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT. THIS IS A DONCHI KUBEBA CONSTITUTION YACHIGAMABA AND WE WANT IT REPLACED BY A PEOPLE DRIVEN CONSTITUTION IN 12 MONTHS!!!! UPND YOU HAVE.BEEN WARNED!
“CONSTITUTION YACHIGAMBA” IS ALL THE PF HAVE TO SHOW AFTER BEING IN POWER FOR FIVE YEARS? GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO BE BLOATED AND DYSFUNCTIONAL. PF HAVE COMPLETELY DESTROYED THE ECONOMY AND NOW ZAM IS RUNNING ON ITS KNEES ASKING FOR KALOBA AND DONATIONS EVERYDAY. TO ADD SALT TO INJURY BA PF BAISA TUPELA “CONSTITUTION YACHIGAMBA”. ITS TIME FOR CHANGE! ATASE TIYENI UKO!!!
Edgar Lungu has just collapsed and is laying cold. People are now timely saved from this lunatic
I think Sunday’s language is more civility than what am reading here, kindly res[pond in an honourable way other than tooth for a tooth. remember, Chanda is just a party mobiliser, as for you sir, you carry heavy responsibility being a party secretary general. I have not yet decided who to give my vote but the language and insults from UPND camp when responding to issues make me skeptical about the schooled party. Teach your members please or else…they are not adding value to the cause of the party.
don’t chase would be members because of your language. This is one Zambia one nation and there no single tribe that can ascend to power without support of every one. For me i don’t look at tribe, but every one who is able to convince me. If we start dividing ourselves when it comes to…
NDELOLESHAFYE PANTU BA UPND TAMWAKATALE AMUWINAPO AMA ELECTIONS, U WIL JST END UP WITH ERECTING MORE BITTERNESS WHICH IZ SOON DEVIDING YOUR PARTY. I CAN ASSURE U, WEN IT COMES TO VOTING PEOPLE MAKES DECISIONS THE LAST MINUTE AND THERE IS STIL A GREATER CHANCE OF LUNGU WINNING THE ELECTIONS AND INFACT WITH A HUGE MARGIN…… KATEKA NI EDGAR, ABA BAMBI KUWAYAWAYAFYE……
KATUKA, THIS MAN IS DOUBLE SIDED AND UPND WILL SEE WHAT I MEAN. THIS MAN HAS BROUGHT HIS FAMILY AND KAPITA FAMILY TO CONTROLL MWINILUNGA AND NO ONE TALKS BCOS OF FEAR.MWINILUNGA WILL NOT CHANGE AS LONG AS THIS COMBINATION CONTINUE CONTROLLING DEVELOPMENT WHICH FAVOURS TWO FAMILIES. MWINILUNGA CHANGE CHOOSE NOT UPND IF U DONT WANT PICK AN INDEPENDENT. NOTHING IS CHANGING NO DEVELOPMENT BCOZ OF THESE SELFISH CHARACTERS FROM UPND
Dreaming is free!!but Zambians know whom they want to vote for in 2016 in large numbers and i cannot see HH being the one!!i live in Lusaka and travel a lot in PF strongholds,people are still behind PF!!EDGAR LUNGU WILL 100% RETAIN POWER NEXT YEAR!!SO LETS WAIT AND SEE AS HH IS NEVER AN OPTION FOR SO MANY VOTERS IN ZAMBIA!!!
Sorry, that does not include me. And I voted for Edgar Lungu last election!
Vwabi you maybe the only one who sees HH as next president. For me he sends could chills in my back! I find him to be too shifty and untrustworthy. Sorrounding himself with insultants like Nkombo and Katuka doesn’t help convincing other voters of which I am part of.
Am looking for ka Sunday Chanda…kkaponokwa soon.
Ba Katuka we have heard you but like your boss you have dodged issues raised by Chanda. You have laboured so much on 50 plus 1, but how about the other issue of Running Mate?
@Eddy,but you have been always blind & hell bent on pathetic PF,how can you tell us the truth with regards to HH!Truth be told,let your perceived stronghold continue enjoying the unprecedented development under pathetic PF;as for me,a civilised radical government worker,I have a standard in my life,I don’t support mediocre & primitive leaders who can be surpassed in most aspects of leadership decisions by my grade 10 boy child.PF leaders don’t just inspire me,they are just pathetically dull & below average!
sata managed to frudtrate the constituiton in MMD but your god of the Tonga has failed. He only managed Tonga MP votes. How can someone who has failed to influence 150 MPs change the mind set of 5000000 voters? Dream and dream untill you wake up
A normal rational adult would not vote for miseries to continue!Its surprising to see PF morons & cronies continuing talking of Lungu & his useless PF winning next year;One would wonder as to whether these bloggers are aliens or ghosts!Zambia is really in trouble under diabolical PF regime,very useless group of hyenas; holding the development of Zambia at ransom!
Put is simply. This MP from UPND is downgraded to Under 3. The language is really disappointing to say the least.
Lets wait for August as for pf is in govt.The Malawians have surpassed us in constitution making process.Theirs went through a referrendum,but for us zambians we end up producing a patched constitution.The world shall laugh at us,in other countries this can not be accepted.
UPND is a very bitter party, the language tells it all.
Viva ECL
Finally the pf has shot itself to the foot by releasing a patched succumbed to presure dice constitution. This really shows how rigid & desperate edna kaminamisa is to hold on to power. What a parthetic & fake GRZ this is, indeed from a 90 days story to 5 years now! Pls mukazi mvelako nsoni you poor fool liars. Viva HH!
You are right UPND wins online but come to actual votes its tears. In case you have a problem with History go to MUVI TV and ask them what you god got. Pipo believe me have come to accept lungu and he is getting 68%
MMD is clever party they have successfully managed to dribble PF.Iam a happy man with 50+1 PF is gone.PF is dull they thought MMD mps were doing them a favour when infact they knew that they working together with UPND.Check the facts most current mps in MMD are from UPND strongholds.While the president of MMD is from PF stronghold.This means that Mumba and Mutati can not willed much power over the MMD mps.They made the deal with Lungu in there personal capacity.in 2016 most MMD mps will stand on UPND ticket or risk losing the seats e.g Chituwo Mumbwa,Genaral Shikapwasha in Keembe.
Just one question to ALL contributors to this issue, do you REALLY UNDERSTAND implication of 50% + 1?
Fortunately, French election has provided CLEAR answer, but, do the political leaders you support understand REAL implication? In so far, it is evident that neither PF or UPND have gasped reality of 50% + 1.
I am not holding my breath than MMD (which is confident to be joining PF in Running Mate) or any other party has yet seen what is in store.
Presidential Running Mate + (50% + 1) = ???
UPND used to be a respectable party under Anderson Kambela Mazoka
The UPND convention of 2005 changed everything and saw the exit of high profiled Zambian names.
How does a sane person publicly announce to the world that for one to lead UPND he/she has to be a Tonga?
How do non Tongas take such a party?
From that year the name of the party changed to UPe NDime (meaning give it to me whether you like it or not)
Ask Nawakwi what happened when they formed an alliance in 2006
Ask Kabimba what happened when the PF formed an alliance with them in 2009/2010.
In the recent debate all his(HH) MPs were anti constitution
its a country wide resolution to support ECL/HH,no tribalism! popularity in all the ten provinces!
Lusaka EL-54%,HH-46%
Kopala EL-48%,HH-52%
Central EL-40%,HH-60%
Eastern EL-69%,HH-31%
Muchinga EL-65%,HH-35%
Northern EL-60%,HH-40%
Luapula EL-55%,HH-45%
NWestern EL-25%,HH-75%
Western EL-35%,HH-65%
Southern EL-18%,HH-82%
@Jaba Jansomo now add up your figures and tell me who has 50+1?Do you think MMD mps from UPND stronghold will side with PF?What will be the position of FFD and Rainbow will the side with HH or Lungu.After that tell me the answer.
@ba Sido, god of the Tonga only managed 35 votes from southern and you say he will win. Do you know that sata stopped the constituition in same paliament? i will give you the answer let me do the math
OH Bwana without UPND refusing to Vote with MMD,( and basically because the 50%+1 was removed by honourable Kunda) the constitution would have seen the light. UPND stopped that constitution by merely refusing to Vote. Don’t boast. It is not about who did what, it is about the right thing being done. This constitution will be undone by any new Government. This is reality. There are no more strongholds in politics. There are only strong views. There is nothing to celebrate about patched constitution. Im also very amazed by some contributions here. It is not like there are two ballots for the running mate and the President. It is the same ballot for the Presidency that determines who becomes the vice president. Please lets be literate. These things are on the net. I don’t like the language…
If Akainde can get 45% in Luapula, at what position will be Nawakwi’s party which am sure every one knows that is second popular party there after PF?
All the past govts combined failed not even to mention the 50+1 threshold till PF came into power. It wasn’t easy for each govt to enact the 50+1n coz of fear of losing power. It has to take PF to do the magic. Viva ECL and PF!
The same thing applies in copperbelt Akainde’s party cannot beat ECL there in terms of votes. And so is central province for your own understanding, central province is the only swing province in Zambia today. This means central province is 50-50 not the one above.
My God, what kind of party Secretary General is this Katuka? The language, the false confidence, exaggerations, etc. But then Katuka means insult anyway.
Oh my! How does HH choose and assemble his team, a president cannot find suitable people for SG or any other senior position? Or is it lack of people to choose from? Both I think. Anyway that has been well covered, let us comment at the core issues:
” HH has been consistent in 50% +1; we are going to win 2016 by a huge margin that even this 50% + 1 will not count. If they had wanted they would have even gone 80% + 1 we would still be fine, ” Mr Katuka said. …Contd…
Let me educate Mr Katuka and UPMD cadres and leaders:
1. The 50%+1 passed through parley with 11 votes against 37 for UPND.
Simple maths tells us that UPND got 25% against 75%.
2. MPs are the elected representatives of the people, this means that on the ground, UPMD can only get 25%, but let me generous and give them a margin of error of 50% on their 25%=38%. Ok let’s try an error of 75% on 25%, they get 44%. The fact is that even with a margin of error of 100% UPMD can only get 50% of the presidential vote, the extra 1 vote is impossible mathematically.
3. HH has been consistent with 50%+1, really Mr Katuka? Didn’t your MPs vote against that clause? Or are you telling us that HH and his MPs do not agree with each other?
4. If a re-run was required to achieve 50%+1, your guess is as good as mine which alliances will be formed, jus a hint: so far HH’s calls for an alliance among the opposition parties has fallen on deaf ears because no one likes or trusts HH. …cond…
6. Assuming the impossible happens and they are forced to swallow the idea of GBM or Mandevu as president of UMPD, remember that UPMD has been selling HH on the platform of as “economic manager” the only one capable of solving the country’s economic challenges? Well, in the event HH not being there, then the party has lost the narrow basis of its campaigns or even its very existence. So who will UPMD nominate as alternative economic manager? But they know “economic manager” was just a guise for the leader they wanted at the 2005 convention to replace Andy Mazoka, that beloved son of a united Zambia, MHSRIEP.
7. UPMD cadres, the fact is that your leader HH and team tried to shoot down the constitution and failed, they know what you do not know: that UPMD is doomed to die a slow…
5. Running mate clause is another area of shock for UPMD cadres and leaders alike, it opens the possibility of either GBM or Cannissius becoming president of UPMD in event that HH is incapacitated. We know with absolute certainty that UPMD cadres are not sleeping any more, can you imagine all the work that they have put in so far, only to face the constitutional reality of handing over the party to GBM or Canissius, a non-tonga? That hurts, I tell you! I cannot say what UPMD are doing about it just now, but they are definitely working overtime to solve this, including finding some excuses to fire GBM or the mandevu.
UPND wins polls only on social media that’s why they mislead themselves and cry foul after votes are counted. With the kind of hate speech they spew about how they will deal with so and so after they assume power, most of us find them useful only in opposition. They are what we refer to as necessary evil. They keep the PF in check, but they are not a suitable party or organisation to hold the country’s presidency.
I’m on the copperbelt in Ndola and as far as this city is concerned we are maintaining the president.
My voters card is still intact
According to juba’s figas ecl wil get 46.9% while hh wil get 53.1% meaning hh goes to state house.bt hh wil get more dan dis.check it out and prove me wrong!
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As a christian nation, it is a must not to abuse language. The above exchanges reflect hatred in God’s blessed nation. Why not allow God to show the way. You may axe each other while political leaders are sharing a drink. What value do these ungodly exchanges add to our life. I know God will give us a capable leader.