Former Republican Vice President Dr Guy Scott says remarks issued by UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema in 2013 that he was the most stupid white man did not upset him.
And Dr Scott says he does not have a grudge against President Edgar Lungu but insisted that the PF leader ascended to the helm of the party in an irregular manner.
Dr Scott who is also PF Lusaka Central Member of Parliament said he did not consider Mr Hichilema’s remarks that he was the most stupid white man as an insult because it was part of political talk.
The former Vice President was speaking at his New Kasama residence during a wide ranging live interview with Lusaka’s 5 FM Radio.
He said he found it normal to agree to work with the UPND in a partnership with the Democratic Front because there was no blood between himself and Mr Hichilema.
“That is just the language of politics. HH never insulted me, there was nothing to that statement that I am the most stupid white man because that is how we talk in politics. If i have a thin stick, I would be bothered because people will throw tomatoes at you all the time as a politician,” he said.
He added, “Elbowing each other is part of the game. I am sorry if I called them a small tribal party because they were also insulting. It is here today, gone tomorrow, it is not like a birth mark.”
And Dr Scott said he does not hold any grudges against President Edgar Lungu saying he enjoyed a cordial working relationship when the latter served under him as Deputy Minister in his office.
He also dispelled sentiments that he ordered then Acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda not to allow Mr Lungu to file in his nomination papers for the republican presidency.
Dr Scott said what he issued to Justice Chibesakunda was not an order but that he was merely reminding the Acting Chief Justice of the leadership situation in the PF at that time.
“The letter I wrote to the Chief Justice was not ordering her, it was merely warming her that there was a dispute over who was the dully elected PF President because I didn’t want a situation where two candidates arrive at the nomination centre claiming that they have been adopted and I needed to tell her that we had a problem within the PF,” Dr Scott said.
He added, “Some people in the PF were being hysterical that I would run away to the airport and go to Scotland because that is where they thought I came from. That was not true. What I wanted was for the constitution to be respected.”
“The only body that could select the candidate for the presidency is the National Convention and not the Central Committee or Members of Parliament or both, they were attempts to block this and I maintained that we needed to respect the constitution of the PF. That constitution was produced by Mr Sata with express instruction that it should not allow what happened to him during the MMD at Mulungushi Convention and FTJ drilled Sata and got a small number of NEC members into endorsement of Mwanawasa and Michael was determined not to repeat that in the PF and we had to ensure that the only body to elect a presidential candidate was the National Convention.”
Dr Scott maintained that the only election he recognises was the one which was won by Matero MP Miles Sampa.
“It is not that I have a soft spot for Sampa. He won the election fair and square and I recognise him as the person who won the elections. Edgar’s election was just a show of hands like it was U.T.T.A meeting with Nsanda and his Panga boys,” he said.
He said he blames the party Chairperson Inonge Wina for failing to provide leadership during the succession wrangles in the PF.
“I blame Inonge Wina and I think she went over her powers to allow the election to go on. As a party, we said we cannot destroy ourselves and I spoke to Miles and Bishop Banda and we managed to have them reconcile with Edgar Lungu,” he said.
The former Vice President also reiterated that he is not re-contesting his Lusaka Central seat.
“I will not run for Lusaka Central again because I will be going round the country to ensure that the DF and UPND alliance wins. I will devote my time to talking to the people across Zambia,” he said.
Asked on speculation that his wife Dr Charlotte Scott will instead contest the Lusaka Central seat, Dr Scott said the question should be posed directly to his wife.
“Ask her, phone her and ask her. She just stepped out. You cannot ask the husband, she is not my Chola girl.
He also revealed that he is in the final stages of writing his Memoirs.
“Yes I have been writing my Memoirs. I have been on a holiday for over a year remember and i have written the whole story up, from the time I met Michael through the Chiluba era and up to the time we started the PF. Time will come when I will retire because I am getting a bit old but at the moment there is no one to give advice to at the moment. I would like to sit back like Simon Zukas and KK and take a relaxed view but for now I have got work to finish. We have to remove PF out of power,” he said.
On the ongoing Maize shortage, Dr Scott said there is no way that the country could be having a maize shortage.
“There shouldn’t be a shortage, it is a pity that the Government is now commanding people to pay a certain price for mealie meal. It is only in Zambia where you have one price of maize for exports and another for local consumers. You can’t do that. Let’s learn to run proper free market otherwise the consumer suffers,” he said.
He sounds bitter. He wanted democracy to prevail at a PF convention yet he is supporting UPND which has never had a convention. These are the last kicks of a dying horse.
Dr Scot stick to writing your memoirs. And you are not getting a “bit” old. You are old. They say there is no f00l like an old f00l.
Just remembered; It’s April f00ls’. Dr Scot is just kidding!
The only stone his former Party had in this sour grapes situation was to remind him of a supposedly insult he was subjected to by the party he has now decided to support. He said he didn’t view the Muzungu woopuso remark directedat him as an insult and he didn’t feel insulted. In short he will welcome it again and again from anyone practising politics. That leaves PF with no more stones to throw at the man.
Well done Dr Scott, after all, its your constitutional right to belong, support & vote for a party of your choice.
Never mind the visionless PF bandits, in 3 months time they will be VOTED OFF! Dr Scott, PF are under intense heat & pressure, they are ignorant to democratic principles hence Lungu assumed the [Painful Fleas] PFs presidency by the way of lifting hands.
Unfortunately for PF, this time next, NO MORE “anointing” of showing up HANDS, come 11~8, its by ballots.
Fact is that, it was indeed Miles Sampa who won the elections democratically at the PF convention clearly, but ANARCHY of Lungu +Nsanda bandits reigned over.
Flight HH 11~8~2016
The Skeleton Key
~206~
I also blame Ba Inonge for used by Lungu camp who were using racial divide. If she had sided Scott & Kambwili camp, today we could have say
President Inonge & Vice-President Guy Scott.
Here were are today, she is no value in PF, and 99% she will be damped before August election. Inonge has no choice now except joining Nawakwi.
I admire this muzungu. He is the BEST OLD man in Zambian politics……any way he is a PhD holder thus such perfect reasoning. I see why Europe is developed.
THIS CHAP SCOTT IS SO FOOLISH A MAN.
I 100% agree with Dr Scott on President Lungu..
This man called Mr EC Lungu is extremely dangerous to democracy. He has been trying so hard to manipulate the constitution since the time he dribbled Miles Sampa for PF Presidential candidacy!! Im not an alarmist, but there are a number of controversial things that Lungu has done since the time he was fighting for PF candidacy.
– He made Inonge Wina violet the PF constitution by holding a secrete meeting without the Chairman, who at that time was Dr Scott
– He refused to resign from being Defense Minister even when he had applied as PF presidential candidate.
– After being fired by Dr Scott, who was then the Acting Zambian President, Mr Lungu challenged the Zambian constitution and stated that Dr Scott had no Powers to fire him!!!
contd..
– He then held a parallel meeting with some PF members at Mulungushi where he was “elected” as PF President by the show of hands, machetes and other weapons!!
– Now he is yet again trying to manipulate the constitution to postpone elections till 2020!!!
What a dictator!! What more evidence do you need? And some fake Prophet from Nigeria wants us to believe that Lungu has the Lord’s favour!! Which Lord? Those are prophecies inspired by demons. I know how dangerous it is to criticize prophecy, but then again I know what the Bible says are the Marks of a False Prophet like TB Joshua who is practicing spiritism/ancestral worship and witchcraft, same as this Isaac Amata and the Malawian false prophet, Bushiri. Tell me which part of their prophecies glorifies God!!
contd..
You think demons don’t give fake visions and false dreams?
I have re-posted this because its time for people to know the real truth.
Yes you can say this now kamudala because you are in “sebana wikute” mode. Desperate times calls for desperate actions.
Now that Muzungu Opusa maningi has aligned himself with UPND, you will see how he will represent his race rightly from now on. It will be quality thinking. Panga foolish (PF) thinking is a thing of the past now.
@Saulosi: you are acknowledging defeat way too early. You only sebana yourself in front of somebody who is holding a banquet. Is HH and UPND’s success now so assured? PFools are panicking.
#ChagwaMustFall
Yes Lungu stole the election as Guy puts it but i believe Sampa was not a match to HH in 2015. If Pf fielded Sampa that was going to be the end of PF. EL got a lot of sympathy votes 2015 which Sampa would not have collected and that’s the fact which guy knows. I think Guy is very bitter about losing grip on PF which was like his and Micheal’s possession and I agree with him because it pains. Now he wants to remove PF from power which he helped to bring misery on us. Will everybody trust him again?
oh ya! this the reason why Europe is forever forward and African is forever backward,,, Guy Scot has raisen above pettiness,,
@Ndobo, please be more specific, Guy Scott is a truth teller. And I wish him a long life, but at its end he deserves a spot at Embassy Park.
He’s telling the truth about how lungu stole the election
Him Wrungu is the most clueless,visionless,brainless,useless,hopeless and drunkard president Zambia has ever seen he belongs to chainama rehab center not at plot one.
Bitterness and hate against Lungu is driving Scot Nuts
For the sake of revenging Lungu, you accept that you are the Most Stupid Whiteman South of the Equator. Indeed you are stupid. Have we forgotten that you are the Cartel leader that literally drove Sata to his grave when the old man had asked to step down ! Indeed uli kasushi !
Bitter/ bitterness is the only new term which is highly used and recognized in the PF camp. They have got no time to scrutinize the values/ substance of other people’ s views. They think everyone should think and view things the PF way which is quite the contrary.
WYNTER Kabimba says people must be careful with the choices they make on August 11 because they will end up with a government that is worse than PF. – , Kabimba cautioned Zambians against voting on impulse on August 11. “Zambians have voted in the past. Just going back to 1991, they voted out UNIP and brought in the MMD. At the end of the 20 years of the MMD, it proved to be worse than the UNIP government that they had voted out
If you read Kabimba’s article carefully, his thesis was that both PF & UPND are capitalist oriented Party’s. He would rather have a socialist Party as this would best deal with the current poverty levels in the cointry.
Unfortunately for Rainbow, socialism as a basis of development has been abadoned by both Russia & China, which are mixed economies. Kabimba completely misses the point of this election. His proposed discussion i.e. which is the best economic philosophy cannot be held in an atmosphere where our very survival & freedoms are being denied! On that score alone, UPND is a better alternative to PF!
Comment:Guy scott is a seasoned politician but his saltness is being lost at an alarming rate. anyway the slogan of ‘no permanent enemy in politics ‘ is at play. we watchers will sit,watch and be entertained in the next 5months of political circus.am jst worried upnd is being contaminated by hooligans not t mention names.upnd 3yrs ago had what it takes t form a formidable govt based on intellectualism and clearness.ney 4 now. where is garry the great ! where are u cornelius? maweee.
: SM, UPND is only better for Tongas because they are looking foward to grabing all the jobs from non Tongas. UPND would be the best option if only it was not headed and dominated by Tongas. Otherwise non Tongas would cry if HH and his tribes mates came into power.
We have more than enough facts/ exmples/ evidence which I don’t need to go through, its there for all to see. Therefore all yu non Tongas open yo eyes and see the deception of Tongas. They want yu to help them win the election and after that dump yu. Remember Garry Nkombo said Southern Prvo has decided to change Govt- what does that tell yu?
Pipo have seen new roads, schools,hospitals, districts, choma has seen new and modern buildings, pld pipo receiving cash. selfish pipo like you Scott have chosen to steal maize and sell to Malawi and DRC. Then you say we vote this govt out. Keep on dreaming DR Scott.
@ Assage. Pipo have seen new roads etc, but can they eat them? PF was supposed to have concentrated on resucitating the Industrial base of the country & still built some roads. That is how you develop a nation! Do you know that your PF is constructing roads at $2,000,000 per Km when the real cost is supposed to be $400,000 per Km? Where is the difference going to?
SM defend your myopic thought by a concrete reasoning.This issue of saying people will not eat roads is luck of proper reasoning.Road network play a very big role in national development.Without proper road infrastructure,there can be no proper development.How do you transport goods from point A to B on pathetic road network?Your thinking lucks substance and is not worth belabouring on.
@ASSAGE & mbaluso
To the contrary your friend @SM is thinking correctly. It’s a question of getting priorities right. For example if you have no food in the house and your family is starving, would you use your scarce money to buy a car or a movie ticket to watch rambo? This is what’s happening and exhibiting in the process the thinking incapability of the thugs. To append a one man’s signature to a document they decide to spend millions of money to be watched by people doing so. Have you ever gone hungry for a day or two without putting anything in your mouth? This is what happens: any thoughts other than that of FOOD is pushed in the background not to be considered until the stomach is full. People want food first then you can have fun and games with your roads.
Guy Scott is an old embarrassed man that started a war within the party by replacing Lungu as Secretary General of the PF.after the demise of late MCS. Later when ECL lodged nominations papers with him at Cabinet office, he said Lungu should not expect him to campaign for him. Little later when the campaign heated we a saw Guy and Charlotte relaxing in lower Zambezi. A proverbial mother who says lets cut the baby into 2. Guy exhibits lack of sense of responsibility towards a party he claims to have founded with late Michael Chiluba Sata. But then this is a man who late MCS never left to act. Even towards the end, MCS never took Guy into confidence but ECL. These 2 were friends so what is it that late Michael found a deficit in Guy? And this Charlotte is she not the one that was…
Working with EEC (European Union ) on ZAWA?
Guy Scott as you have for alliance with DP and UNDP could you also tell the Zambian people when UPND last had convetion or are
Going to have one now that you’ve joined
And supported them whatever you may claim to have done.
Are you still going to support Sampa to be the President of that alliance ?
Let him rest in disgrace. A miserable failure.
MR. SCOTT YOUR INSTINCT IS CORRECT. ALL ZAMBIANS ARE JOINING HANDS TO KICK OUT THE CORRUPT PF GOVERNMENT WITH THEIR VERY WEAK AND IMMORAL PRESIDENT EDGAR LUNGU WHO HAS DISADVANTAGED MILLIONS OF ZAMBIANS INCLUDING OUR CHILDREN AT CBU AND UNZA IN A NUMBER OF WAYS. LUNGU SHOULD BE KICKED OUT OF STATE HOUSE THIS AUGUST. HE HAS INDEED WASTED OUR TIME AS A NATION. HE IS AT STATE HOUSE AS A SPACE FILLER, PERIOD! CHANGE, HERE WE COME. VIVA HH VIVA! VIVA UPND VIVA!
Get off it Scott, we have successfully read you in this political scene. That song you sang at the HH endorsement showcased your total disrespect and grudge against the siting head of state. If the your party never adopted you as MP this time, is it a crime? You, Sampa, Mmembe, Winter, and HH are haters with your levels of hatred so appalling for someone called a leader. How could you, Guy, honestly desire to be respected considering the fact that you were once the President of this beloved country for 3 solid months; and made headlines in international media houses when you cannot humble yourself, make yourself useful and respect red brick and its occupant. Scott, you are busy and responsible for dragging KASEBA into the political mud. Scott you are merciless.
The Former Republican Vice President Dr Guy Scott believes that “The only body that could select the candidate for the PRESIDENCY is the National Convention”.
Which convection selected / elected the President of UPND, hid new Party?
I thought that Scott had gone drinking some whisky! This man can’t pretend and cheat Zambians that he doesn’t hate President Lungu? This mas is a disgrace to PF and Sata family. Sata honoured Scott but look at what he is doing the party that we all love?
How can Scott of all people support HH who insulted President Sata and PF day in day out? Anyway we shall meet him on the ground, ler the game begin.
while Mr. Scot if that didn’t hurt you then you must know now that you are THE MOST STUPID WHITE MAN EVER LIVED ON EARTH. I hope that will hurt you. #SorryThough
PF SUPPORTERS, EVEN WHEN YOU ARE, SUFFERING, WASE STILL FAILING TO BUY ONE TISSUE FOR YOUR HOME, YOU ARE FAILING TO BE REALISTIC.
NEXT YOU WILL BE MOVING NAKED CLAIMING ITS YOUR PARTY REGALIA
I MEANT WORSE SORRY.
Now I know that PF is really gone. They are out come August 11, 2016.
What both Scott and hh said are still very true to a large extent.
Scott is very foolish and Upnd is a regionalist party and they know it.
PF is finished as can be seen on the hopelessness on the faces of hungry zambians. The loans PF is using to construct roads, schools are projects which any govt can do. RB started this and yet he was kicked out. Inflation is high, political violence is the order of the day, prices of food and other basic items are beyond reach of the ordinary citizens, so what kind of governance is this? MMD was atleast better because people managed to drink once in a while. Everything has gone ‘pamela’ way. PF out
Well now you know when they issue unpalatable words they do not mean it! We have heard so much rhetoric from politicians ever since democracy was introduced in Zambia. Today they will be issuing and saying vulgar words and tomorrow they are winning and dining together. Yes Scott may sound bitter but he has many points and it important to look at the big picture. Indeed reconciliation was important otherwise the chaps would have set the country on fire and I applaud Scott for being mature during that time. EL ascended through the back door and has continuously shown that he has no respect for law and order, hence the calls to remove him and his cronies from the helm of power.
PF supporters am undecided voter can you please give me 3 reasons why i should vote for PF?
MR SCOT YOU ARE VERY USELESS THUS WHY WE SHALL TEACH YOU A LEASON AND NEVER TRUST WHITE MAN THIS KANGRO THEY ARE USELESS
well spoken mr scot anless u ar ***** tht z wen cant understand wat he was saying let work together to ensure tht this poverty founders retire in 11th august
Sorry that the party you founded with Sata has been hijacked by vultures. Like you said Inonge to blame. But betrayal is something that comes naturally to women. My apologies for being gender insensitive.
When white people speak,Africans have to shut up!
A really very stupid white man. (By the way stupid means slow in thinking)
For those of you who fanatically support Lungu and imagine he is humble, today you have heard from the horse’s mouth how your drinking idol violently became president. Do you wonder why he champions violent cadres and has no wish to end violence? It’s the duty of every Zambian to get rid of the vermin from office.
I probably, just probably, would have paid attention to Mr Guy Scott if it wasn’t for his swine fever scandal. The chap has no integrity at all, and here he is trying to teach us lessons in integrity. He talks about democracy in PF at the convention but conveniently leaves out the fact that HH is in exactly the same for not allowing a convention in his own party to confirm his leadership of UPND. It is these same old fools who have messed up our democracy. Scott even sees good constitutionalism when GBM becomes Vice President of UPND while their party constitution does not allow dual party membership, ati integrity atase.
Yes Mr Scott, you do have some unfinished business, to help the voters reject HH.
this man called GUY is blinded by hate & bitterness, how can you even say that i will not rest until the PF is removed from power. if truly you are a founder member why do u want to destroy sata’s legacy. muzungu wopusa indeed.
chuundu, Sata s legacy was spoiled by Lungu? this man that you criticise so bitterly was Sata s right hand man and it pains him to see the destruction of his party.
Now can we hear a mature statement from any government minister instead of blabbering some incoherent gibberish about “the cartel” and “power comes from God”? Time is up for PF. Don’t blame Scott for your own poor choices (i.e. to be led by clueless drunkards who are going to lose the election) – Scott actually tried to save PF from this. Ifintu ni chimwela
PEOPLE leave the old man alone; he has left the PF so why is it hurting you people, even in the PF members have passed silly comments about him so just because he has endorsed HH you want to keep hammering him on it. Hasn t your big mouthed vuvuzela Mumbi and political prosie Dora said enough. Being white does not make him any less a Zambian than you people are. I have great respect for GUY SCOTT.
HE LIKE BEING CALL THAT BECAUSE IT THAT HIS DEFINITION.
Dr Scott how do you justify insults? What message you and HH are sending to the nation and entire world. Looking at your level and that of HH, everyone including children will take your word and action as gospel truth. Please, condemn insults with loudest voice. PF, please, hold another convention and come up with credible elections not that you had in Kabwe of just a show of hands like it was U.T.T.A meeting with Nsanda and his Panga boys,” where Edgar emerged victorious. The If you don’t want elections, then hand over power to Miles Sampa. The party Chairperson Inonge Wina deliberately failed to provide leadership during the succession wrangles in the PF because she wanted to become zed’s vice president.
Indeed “Dr Guy Scott is a very f00lish white man”, remaining in Zambia!!WE SHALL SEE WHICH PF MEMBERS WILL FOLLOW YOU TO UPND!!IF YOU FAILED TO KILL PF WHEN YOU WERE ACTING PRESIDENT,HOW CAN YOU MANAGE NOW WHEN YOU ARE POWERLESS?KIKIKIKIKI.JUST GO BACK TO YOUR LAND IN SCOTLAND BECAUSE YOU ARE PLAYING WITH FIRE HERE IN ZAMBIA AND WE SHALL HANDLE YOU.Miles Sampa whom you support is very childish and i doubt if at all he will ever succeed politically!!people have seen through him and no longer take him serious!!WE SHALL SEE ON 11/08/2016 WHO IS POPULAR BETWEEN YOU GUY SCOTT/MILES SAMPA AND PF AS A PARTY BECAUSE ALL WE LOVE IS PF AS A PARTY AND NOT A PERSON LIKE YOU “MUZUNGU OPUSA-GUY SCOTT!!”
Do you think it is clever to make threats online in the name of PF? Maybe you should add them to your Facebook profile as well so you can be booked. Hearts of only threats and violence instead of brains are the reason the once great PF has now failed
Dr Guy Scott is sick and he’s a spent force…
HH was wrong to use the term, “a foolish white man.” If a white person called him a foolish black man, he would play the racist card. We have to be careful what we say about others. Especially leaders. Use civilized language. We have become tribal so let us not be racist.
I wish Scott and Sampa had remained fighting the stolen PF presidency within the party. within. Fighting outside ring may not throw weighty punches as it would if they fought within.
Listening to Scott’s pain, I side with him. The fact that out of experience Sata worked hard to create a Constitution to safeguard ‘succession’ in leadership, should ache for being taken for a ride by cheap politics.
Ba PF these idiiiiotis have realized that they will be smoked out of their caves come August and they have no plan right now like chimbwi. Leave Guy Scott alone. He has the right to make his own political decision if he doesn’t agree with the corruption and loot in PF. Mu kachimona come august. Muzalila a nyoko
When People who saying; PF supporters are suffering are amazing me. Are UPND supporters and members not suffering? If not, What can you tell us about Dr. Banda even failing to Pay rent and yet I a Civil Servant is able to pay rent? Already It shows that there`s Poverty in UPND and when you form Government- that is if it will happen, they will be plunder of the resources. Ati navionela nji? GBM will even get all the tenders that I supported the party financially.
U KNOW WHAT ALL OF US WHO VOTED FOR ECL JANUARY 2015, VOTED AGAINST THE EVIL OF THIS MUZUNGU OPUSA, THE CARTEL AND ALL WHO FOUGHT OUR MAN ECL…
EVEN THIS WE ARE WAITING PATIENTLY IN A MULTIPLE NUMBERS INCLUDING THOSE WHO FELT LAZY TO VOTE LAST TIME… WINNING IS SO SWEET NO WONDER I AM EVER WITH WITH TEAM ECL AND PF….KWAMANA
Let’s face it, ECL ascended to power illegally. The problem we face as a country is the lack of awareness of risks our country is being exposed to due to such actions. We have seen the rise of panga politics since that panga coup in Kabwe and ECL can’t do a damn thing about it. Cha wamila galu, as the saying goes. Inonge Wina has to be ashamed. You can call Guy Scott all kinds of things, but he is right. Our development as a people has to start with integrity and recognition of our failures and mistakes. At this point in time the most credible candidate for the Presidency isn’t ECL. It is not in anyone’s interest to continue insulting each other when our future depends on rational debate and agreement on what is the right way forward. Let’s choose wisely and steer our country into…
It is curious that Guy Scott is revealing his support for Sampa under the umbrella of UPND. If Scott had any principles at all, he should have resigned from PF the day Edgar Lunga was installed as Republican President. Apparently, Guy Scott, GBM, HH, Kabimba, Sampa, Sichinga etc have constituted a cluster of die hard capitalists. Besides, what species of fish are GBM, Sampa, Kaseba, Sichinga and Guy Scott fishing in UPND’s water body?
We cannot trust UPND which is cheating students that it will provide free education up to University level. Capitalists politicians will never practice socialism if they happen to get into Government. For UPND, its a game of money in their personal pockets only.
Scott actually you are the most stupid & foolish muzungu in Zambia, this HH son of satana you are supporting is he not the one you & our late Father HE. MCS walked out of the alliance you wanted to form with this witch HH because of his selfishness, now today because you are such a stupid fool that you just can’t think properly now with your Sampa whom also is a suspect in some ritual killings of George Compound & also a satanist merged with the Chief freemason. Scott & Sampa you are not needed in PF because you are Demons of hate,Confusion,lies & foolishness