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Senior Chief Mazdimawe denies East Chiefs endorsed President Lungu

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File:Chief Mazdimawe chairing the House of Chiefs when the house resumed sitting in Lusaka
File:Chief Mazdimawe chairing the House of Chiefs when the house resumed sitting in Lusaka

Senior Chief Mazdimawe of the Ngoni speaking people of Eastern Province has refuted media reports that all the Chiefs in Eastern Province have endorsed President Edgar Lungu for the August general elections.

According to some newspaper reports, Paramount Chief Mpezeni and all the Ngoni chiefs have endorsed President Lungu’s candidature in the August 11 general elections.

Paramount Chief Mpezeni is said to have held a meeting with village headmen at Ephendukeni palace telling them to advise their subjects to vote President Lungu.

But Chief Mazdimawe has denied the media reports saying the meeting at Ephendukeni was not about endorsing any candidate.

[pullquote]we are permanent leaders of our own people. Politicians will come and go, but the traditional leadership will remain as long as God almighty decides[/pullquote]
He has since cautioned the media to at all cost thrive to report issues correctly as they unfold.

“Our meeting which took place at Ephendukeni palace on Tuesday was not about endorsing anyone amongst the candidates as we treat all those contesting in these elections as our own children and we are not going to take sides in any way,” Chief Mazdimawe said.

He added, “So let no one from the social media start insulting us on issues he or she does not understand coz we are conversant with electoral code of conduct.”

Chief Mazdimawe however said Chiefs have the duty to discuss and scrutinize candidates with their subjects as it is only chiefs who remain with their subjects without development in an event that elected representatives disappear after being voted into office.

“In short we are permanent leaders of our own people. Politicians will come and go, but the traditional leadership will remain as long as God almighty decides.”

47 COMMENTS

  1. In all honesty who takes this Paramount Chief Mpezeni seriously? The chap is always intoxicated with cheap Powers imported from Malawi.
    Utter disgrace!!

    • WEEEE LUNGU WEEELU! WHO IN HIS RIGHT MIND CAN ENDORSE LUNGU, A THIEF? THANK YOU FOR CLARIFICATION SENIOR CHIEF, LET THE CRAZY MPEZENI ALONE FOLLOW THE LOOTER AND THIEF LUNGU. THE REST OF THE ZAMBIAN PEOPLE ARE FPR CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP, CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT THIS AUGUST. VIVA HH VIVA! VIVA UPND VIVA! VIVA CHANGE VIVA!

    • ***** and stupid chap you are Jay Jay. I do not respect people like you who insult other our leaders. We are Ngonis will not take lightly to persons like you who seen not to have been properly brought up. Where were your parents to teach you manners? They may have failed or where not good parents at all.

      Continue with this idiocy because it will make your Hail Hitler(HH) and his Nazi salute lose more voter and consequently kiss dust in August. this how you did it last and lost and you never seem to learn. You thick head!!!

      And for Top Cat @1.3, I say panyo pako together with you Jay Jay!!! Go and show your disrespect to your chiefs maybe they will understand you because you share the same culture!!!.

    • All the Southern Province Chiefs, their wives, dawgs,cows, and chickens endorse HH, nothing wrong with the Eastern Province chiefs taking a leaf from them!

    • Even in 2015 you and your fellow failures kept mumbling and talking same rhetoric and bigotry but ECL triumphant and HH was the looser. Same thing will happen.
      HH and you blind followers think 2015 numbers were a popularity test for him. You forget simple facts that voter turnout was 33% average but 95% in Southern province.
      Remember the role that Muzungu wopusa played. while HH kept campaigning, ECL was grounded with court cases deliberately created by Sikoti. While hh campaigned for 90 days. ECL had 23 days only and he won while your hh lost.
      Now watch this one. Bringing into HH team, haters of ECL like Kilometer, Sikoti, maroads masebo gbm will not make hh win 2016 election. That be prepared to accept. Infact this is negative to hh
      ECL is campaigning not as a novice this…

    • Wait until that HIV virus Mpezeni issue a statement after RB’s meeting…then the truth will come out

    • Even in 2015 you and your fellow failures kept mumbling and talking same rhetoric and bigotry but ECL triumphed. HH lost and will happen 2016.
      HH blind followers think 2015 numbers were a popularity test for him. You forget simple facts that voter turnout was 33% average but 95% in Southern province. That is why 2016 voter register shows Sountern province having 17% of voters beating Northern, Luapula and Eastern so that hh wins on voter turnout.
      Bringing into HH team, haters of ECL like Kilometer, Sikoti, maroads masebo gbm will not make hh win 2016 election. Be prepared for an excruciating defeat. Zambians have already decided. KATEKA is already known, UMUNTU (human( NOT ANIMAL (HH), is already known, NI LUNGU.

    • Please note that me and my family are voting for HH. mY FAMILY COMPRISES ME, MY WIFE, MY EIGHT CHILDREN ALL OF THEM WITH VOTERS CARDS, MY THREE YOUNG BROTHERS, MY EIGHT ELDERS BROTHERS AND TWO ELDER SISTERS, THEIR ELDERLY CHILDREN, MY FATHER AND MOTHER AND MY EXTENDED FAMILY.

      This time we are all serious and we want to take part in this election.

      Come 11.08.16 it is HH CHAABBEE.

      I am writing from Kasama for your sake.

      VIVA HH
      2016

    • Whichever way, HH made a self-inflicting pain.
      He has dribbled himself from continuing with his political career.
      HH’s political career has been deeply challenged, because after losing in August 2016 he will be forced to retire from active politics by the ‘guys’ or is he going to accept to be a mere UPND member, or at least a member of the NEC?
      Let us assume that in the unlikely even he won the election (forgive me for assuming the impossible), GBM would be a thorn in HH’s flesh – take it or leave it. GBM would have a constitutional mandate just like HH, and HH will have no powers to fire him. Those who know GBM will tell you, that HH’s would not be easy.

    • You may not like what I have said but that matters little the point is that, whichever way, HH’s career has taken a self-inflicted challenge because of greed – the hunger and thirsty for State House.

    • The trouble with Nkosi ya maKoswe is that he forgets that easterners are bakachema (especially you Ngonis, you are cattle breeders and have the most cattle after Tongas and Lozis) and Chakolwa Chagwa has been sneering at bakachema since he became President. We are all bakachema!

  2. Jay JAY respect the Inkosi Ya ma nkosi (the Kings of Kings). Am not comfortable with your utterances would you please retract those words.

    • I second his words. Tell your chief to respect himself first. You involve yourself in politics as a traditional leader then you are a target for abuse. Tell him to stop it. We are irritated by his behaviour.

  3. WAKO NI WAKO.Easterners should learn something they always remain behind.take for instance when Chiluba come in power they voted for Kaunda,When Sata come to power they remained with Banda.This year HH is winning they will remain with Lungu.They say a live dog is better than a dead lion.

    • Neo pano panili ni kavotele wangu…ECL. I am personally revengeful against the Tonga vote. E tiphuzisa aTonga so amweo ka voteleni wanu na Seo tivotele wasu. Ndithu!

    • They have permanently wired themselves that way. When everybody has decided, including the most docile and tolerant voter, that KK, Chiluba, RB or some charlatan in state house must go, that’s when Easterners come en-mass to vote for the reject. Why they are like this it’s a subject for advanced psychiatry. Right now they are poised impatiently to show Lungu how much they adore his despicable leadership by voting him.

  4. Mpezeni is a disgrace. Who doesnt know that he is a PF cadre? He publicly campaigned for PF in a bye-election in Chipata Central, but his subjects ignored him and voted for MMD.

    He was almost beaten by the Educated Snr Chief Madzimawe but ran away and hid in Sata’s statehouse.

    Easterners are always five years behind in national politics. In 1991 they remained with UNIP when the nation had voted for MMD. In 2011, they remained with MMD when the nation voted for PF. In 2016, they will remain with PF while the nation moves forward with UPND.

  5. Keep hurling insults at Eastern chiefs and lose in style! Anyway, you are only emulating your RM who purts out insults owing to his flatulence state! Meanwhile,”Umuntu Ni Lungu!”

    • Joseph – If you were an analytical person you would have known that had Easterners voted for Chiluba in 1991, Zambia would have moved from a one party system to another one party system. Easterners are the ones who made the 1991 transformation a multi-party transformation and saved your behind.

  6. Five years behind is not bad unlike nwp,wp and s provinces who are behind by more than 25 years.they keep voting for the ever loosing hh.too make matters worse wrong running mate.

    • Can you read. Ignorance is not good. People are telling you are always late to the party and you give wrong examples. Remain in your ignorance, its allowed.

  7. Even his own people has disowned this 2016 most incompetent and idi0tic president of the millennium Edgar chakolwa Kaloba Wrungu. Vote wisely vote for visionary leader and a economist Kachema Musuma HH

    • Even in 2015 you and your fellow failures kept mumbling and talking same rhetoric and bigotry but ECL triumphed. HH lost and will happen 2016.
      HH blind followers think 2015 numbers were a popularity test for him. You forget simple facts that voter turnout was 33% average but 95% in Southern province. That is why 2016 voter register shows Sountern province having 17% of voters beating Northern, Luapula and Eastern so that hh wins on voter turnout.
      Bringing into HH team, haters of ECL like Kilometer, Sikoti, maroads masebo gbm will not make hh win 2016 election. Be prepared for an excruciating defeat. Zambians have already decided. KATEKA is already known, UMUNTU (human( NOT ANIMAL (HH), is already known, NI LUNGU.

  8. You are all silent noise makers on this blog. Endorse or not endorse, the issue Will be sorted at the polling station on the ballot. Both ECL and HH, have equal chances. Why you keep hammering each other,I don’t know. Why you are removing each other’s campaign material, I don’t know. HOW PRIMITIVE,stone age chaiyo

    • Very civilized Chris. But I think the man issue here is whether a paramount chief should be going around forcing people to vote for a candidate of his choice.

  9. Dear Chief Madzimawe,
    You Chiefs from the east are a big disappointment. You have become a commodity. You are bought by the highest bidder. You can even deny your child all because of money, you did during RB’s time. If you had mobilised your people in eastern province RB could not have lost to Sata BUT you were bought. You are a shame. Whats wrong with you endorsing ECL? Did you hear that 4 Chiefs in Southern Province are on the campaign trail to campaign for HH and you are fighting to get media space to deny Lungu? What a shame? Luckily you are just a lonely voice in Eastern province.

    • HH under Hostage tell us mwandi! At least I have learnt but my relatives too sleepy like kaya. When Chiefs from the South tell their son not to waste time campaigning in Southern becoz he has already own ours can’t do that. I don’t know how we are made.

  10. All the tonga chiefs in southern province openly campaigning for HH, please just go on and campaign for Edgar and PF

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