Tuesday, April 16, 2024

President Lungu challenges opposition to submit rigging evidence

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President Edgar Lungu with Mr Samuel Mukupa at Lumfwanyama Rally at 1845 hours in the Evening on Tuesday - Picture by Eddie Mwanaleza/Statehouse.
President Edgar Lungu with Mr Samuel Mukupa at Lumfwanyama Rally at 1845 hours in the Evening on Tuesday – Picture by Eddie Mwanaleza/Statehouse.

President Edgar Lungu has challenged the opposition to furnish law enforcement agencies with evidence of how the ruling PF plans to rig Thursday’s general election.

President Lungu has also urged PF members not to retaliate saying the opposition wants to use political violence as an excuse not to accept defeat in August 11 polls.

And President Lungu has said Zambians should not make a mistake of voting the opposition UPND into office because its leaders are businessmen whose sole interest is to only improve their businesses at the expense of Zambians.

Speaking when he addressed a rally in Masaiti district, Mr. Lungu warned that once elected into power the opposition leadership will rush to award themselves government contracts to recover the money they have spent on campaigns since 2001.

ZANIS reports that President Lungu has meanwhile,asked Zambians to fairly judge those who are putting themselves up for elective public office.

The Head of State said humility and self-sacrifice are important attributes of a leader.

He urged Zambian people to reject Mr. Hichilema and all his aspiring candidates because the opposition has got nothing to offer.

And First Lady Esther Lungu who is also in president Lungu’s campaign team called on Zambians to vote for God fearing leaders like her husband Mr. Lungu.

Mrs Lungu said Zambia is a Christian nation which should be led by those who honour and respect God like President Lungu.

The President is on the Copperbelt for a series of public rallies in Masaiti, Mpongwe, Lufwanyama and Kitwe districts ahead of Thursday’s polls.

President Edgar Lungu with First Lady Esther Lungu arrive at Lumfwanyama Rally in Ndola Rural Pictures by Eddie Mwanaleza/Statehouse 09-08-2016
President Edgar Lungu with First Lady Esther Lungu arrive at Lumfwanyama Rally in Ndola Rural Pictures by Eddie Mwanaleza/Statehouse 09-08-2016
President Edgar Lungu arrive at Lumfwanyama Rally in Ndola Rural Pictures by Eddie Mwanaleza/Statehouse 09-08-2016
President Edgar Lungu arrive at Lumfwanyama Rally in Ndola Rural Pictures by Eddie Mwanaleza/Statehouse 09-08-2016
President Edgar Lungu with First Lady Esther Lungu at Lumfwanyama Rally- Pictures by Eddie Mwanaleza/Statehouse 09-08-2016
President Edgar Lungu with First Lady Esther Lungu at Lumfwanyama Rally- Pictures by Eddie Mwanaleza/Statehouse 09-08-2016
President Edgar Lungu with Mr Samuel Mukupa at Lumfwanyama Rally at 1845 hours in the Evening on Tuesday - Picture by Eddie Mwanaleza/Statehouse.
President Edgar Lungu with Mr Samuel Mukupa at Lumfwanyama Rally at 1845 hours in the Evening on Tuesday – Picture by Eddie Mwanaleza/Statehouse.
President Edgar Lungu with Mr Samuel Mukupa at Lumfwanyama Rally at 1845 hours in the Evening on Tuesday - Picture by Eddie Mwanaleza/Statehouse.
President Edgar Lungu with Mr Samuel Mukupa at Lumfwanyama Rally at 1845 hours in the Evening on Tuesday – Picture by Eddie Mwanaleza/Statehouse.

49 COMMENTS

  1. UPND AND ITS KAPONYAS ARE DAY DREAMING,H.H WILL NEVER MAKE IT TO PLOT IN 2016,HE SHOULD WAIT FOR 2021 MAYBE BECAUSE PF IS GOING TO SWALLOW THIS SMALL UPND LIKE A SHARK SWALLING KAPENTAS.E.L LUNGU WILL DEFINATLEY BE IN PLOT NUMVBWER 1 UNTIL 2021.MY PREDICTION IS PF ARE GETTING NOTHING LESS THAN 65% OF VOTES .ZAMBIANS HAVE SEEN WHAT PF HAS DONE IUN 5 YEARS WHICH M.M.D FAILED IN 20 YEARS OF RULE.VIVA PRESIDENT EL. LUNGU VIVA PF ,WE ARE WITH YOU ON THURSDAY.FRIDAY WILL A BIG CELEBRATION FOR THE PRESIDENTS SWEARING IN CEROMONY AT HEROS STADIUM SORRY MR H.H. NOT THIS TIME BUT KEEP HOPEING FOR THE BEST IN 202

    • Dununa reverse… back to Chawama Lungu, your time is up, most useless president ever.

      You are also in government for business, tell us how you made K23million in 1 year.

      There is nothing to stop HH and GBM from forming government. Here is my prediction:
      First round: UPND 43%, PF 27%
      Second round: UPND 75%, PF 25%

    • Edgar, please stop discussing personalities (like a b-tch) at your music concerts and start talking about what you’re going to do for the voters. You failed to appear for a debate when you were called upon but are out and about crapping about GBM and HH. You will be history after tomorrow!

    • Here is the evidence that the Constitutional Court has already provided – 90 days’ illegal use of govt resources using illegal ministers! This one is already proven in court. Chakolwa has run out of options. The mafia organisation called PF is finished.

    • Zambians are so dumb if they buy into this rhetoric….learn and reflect on your own suffering and poverty levels..Are you any better after Lungu took over office from Sata???…Has Lungu done the same thing to you which he has done to himself, increasing wealth at 120% withing 18months???…Is that the person you want to give a 5 year period????? Vot for Lungu at your own demise….Think and evalute objectively.

    • Where are the poeple his is addressing. Lungu we are now talking about hours for us to turn your presidency page into history. Who in their rightful mind should give you any evidence, when evidence has been shown to you and you have done nothing about a number of issues. In case you have forgotten here are the cases in time;
      1. Evidence was provided that your ministers staying on post parliament seating was illegal
      2. violence of your party even with video evidence, such as a case of a women losing her life through abuse of state machinery
      3.the heavy borrowing and economic consequences, now we have 21% inflation and 40% lending rates

    • EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU EWASONTWA KULI JEHOVAH LESA. MWEBENA ZAMBIA DON’T CURSE (MWIKAISHAMIKA) YOURSELVES BY GOING AGAINST JEHOVAH GOD. JEHOVAH MADE SURE THAT BEFORE MICHAEL CHILUFYA SATA DIED THROUGH HIS SERVANT MICHAEL CHILUFYA SATA, HE (JEHOVAH) APPOINTED EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU.
      YOU HAVE BEEN INFORMED. GOING AGAINST GOD WILL MAKE YOU START RUNNING TO EVEN COUNTRIES LIKE CONGO TO BE A REFUGEE. GOD JUST SHOW YOU GOOD THINGS BY EXAMPLE AND THEY ARE JUST TOO MANY FROM PF. PLEASE, DON’T GO AGAINST GOD’S GIFT AND WISHES, TOMORROW. INSELE NOKUMWA FROM UPND IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE SITUATION AHEAD OF YOU IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE. ECL FYE.

    • Indictive Presidential Election Results:

      (COPPERBELT)
      UPND 75%
      PF 20%
      Other 5%
      (LUSAKA)
      UPND 65%
      PF 30%
      Other 5%
      (LUAPULA)
      UPND
      70%
      PF 25%
      Other 5%
      (NORTHERN)
      UPND 65%
      PF 33%
      Other 2%
      (SOUTHERN)
      UPND 80%
      PF 18%
      Other 2%
      (WESTERN)
      UPND 80%
      PF 10%
      Other 10%
      (N/WEST)
      UPND 60%
      PF 35%
      Other 5%
      (CENTRAL)
      UPND 55%
      PF 40%
      Other 5%
      (EASTERN)
      PF 60%
      UPND 35%
      Other 5%

    • Here is how 2001 rigging was done as i personally was a monitor at barlastone park school.
      23 hrs truck arrived to pick ballot boxes to take them at matero boys .
      At muchinga basic school in zingalume we pick ballot boxes and proceeded to George primary sch .
      0145 we found monitors waiting and as they were about to load the ballot boxes.i notice that their ballot boxes were coming from the headmaster office and nothing was in the voting rooms,we decided to block them from loading into the truck and asked for signatory papers from those who claimed to be there so that we countercheck them but in the midst of that the fake monitors disappear and only the headmaster was left alone.we called the police and to their suprise the ballot boxes from george primary schoo had already been picked…

    • I doubt if that is fair to say of opposition. Should we then believe the opposition when they say Edgar Lungu should not be voted back into office because he is a drunkard and his only interest is to drink beer and make Zambians drunkards; hence the only commodity that he has reduced cost price during his presidency is beer?

  2. “…..Zambians should not make a mistake of voting the opposition UPND into office because its leaders are businessmen whose sole interest is to only improve their businesses at the expense of Zambians”
    This sounds like a joke. What is his interest, when until now
    1) he has not explained how he accumulated the USD 2.3mil in 18month
    2) the ruling from the ConCourt, although this is not related to him personally amassing wealth, but it simply shows poor judgement.
    3) Those businessmen have money already, they don`t need to steal ( alot). The concern is bringing in poor chaps, who we fear will be focused on stealing based on above two premises

    • Tomorrow we will turnout in large numbers to vote for HH so that we can end the PF violence and anarchy! I cannot wait to remove PF!

    • Edgar won by 28,000 and HH accepted.
      I have no imagination how PF can win without rigging, however Zambians are not always stupid, they don’t like RB and Kavindele

  3. Rigging is about much more than what happens at the ballot box. It is about the entire electoral process including access to the media, freedom of assembly, and many other things. A president should not need to have this spelled out to understand.

    • @ spuds the question is simple provide evidence or go to night school if your don’t understand the request. Provide evidence to law enforcement even the famous Con Court is waiting to make a ruling. Not these ant hill hallucinations

    • @ Masau, if you believe that monopolizing access to the media and freedom of assembly are “anthill hallucinations” probably you are the one who should go to night school. As I say, a president should not need to have this explained, but please let us know if you see him in class.

      Clearly, there is abundant evidence of both and before you get too cocky about the “Con Court” I imagine others may well be along to lay this out before them as you suggest.

    • You poor dolts, the evidence is already with the Constitutional Court. Lungu rigged the system by using govt resources for 90 days by having ministers after Parliament was dissolved. He abused these illegal ministers by ensuring that stays media could not show any UPND adverts, Police Force shot and killed UPND supporters, and ZAF denied flying permits to UPND. That is incontrovertible evidence and the Constitutional Court already knows this.

  4. So sad to see the level of media censorship that we have been subjected to! I am always left to wonder who really bewitches politicians! They all literally behave the same! Shikapwasha with his stand up Zambia prescribed news “diet” for us and pursued wanton and dispeacable hate programming on ZNBC pertaining to Sata but the wishes of people prevailed! It is sad that Ba Kambwili has taken a similar path on HH. watching ZNBC and I could see clear hate programming on Tv last night on HH but truth be told, the voter of today is not a voter of 1988: voting under duress for fear of the unknown! The voter now is educated and enlightened! That is really backward campaigning and not sure which TV viewer would swing his/her vote on the basis of such mediocre reporting! Zambia has moved on and…

  5. Only those eating with Lungu will vote for him. Those of us who are suffering will vote for change. That change is HH,GBM and UPND. There is no way we can vote for violent Chakolwa Lungu and his fellow thieves and criminals. Zambia Forward with HH,GBM and UPND.

    • @ Zulu
      Kiss the ground bwana, HH and UPND will be buried tomorrow. You can sulk, hate do anything you want, your Kachema will be walloped badly. Why do you think he is so confused already by writing lies to the UN and others and rushing to accuse everyone of rigging? When one senses danger, excuses are just too many and am sure he cant remember any of them! At first it was pre-marked papers a lie which has shamed him and now he is insulting even reporters, what a shame.

  6. What moron of a leader…no shame at all..irrelvant issues he is quick to challenge BUT issues of great importance he hides behind Sunday Chanda and Amos!!

  7. final Boola ni 90 minutes plus extra time and possibly penalties ,lets wait for the results. This years result are not about been popular but the hand of God shall make the x on the right person to rule Zambia.
    vote wisely and don’t be emotional with the out come.
    VOTE WISELY

    • God does not vote in elections people…if you have lamentably failed to convince people do not blame God for your laziness!!

  8. ALL CIVIL SERVANTS WHO 55 YRS AND ABOVE TO BE RETIRED IMMEDIATELY AFTER 11 AUGUST IF HH WINS.DON’T SAY YOU WERE NOT WARNED.MORE JOB LOSES COMING IF HH WINS

  9. Here is how it will be done.
    The zap choppers will pick pre mark ballot boxes from fake polling centres and will proceed to pick ecz authorized centres .the trucks will delibalitery arrive past midnty in some centres which hav pre marked ballots and try to infuse them .
    I noticed that there was no route specification in 2001 as some schools we passed had no ballot boxes as they were picked already.
    I hope this is not the case this time around.

  10. PROVINCE ECL HH OTHER
    LSK-1,121,846 600,000 350,000 150,000
    CB-1,038,434 500,000 300,000 100,000
    SP-812,590 50,000 700,000 50,000
    EP-777,379 600,000 100,000 50,000
    CP-643,226 260,000 300,000 50,000
    NP-556,855 400,000 100,000 50,000
    LP-511,057 400,000 50,000 50,000
    WP-499,873 50,000 350,000 50,000
    NWP-399,784 70,000 300,000 20,000
    MP-349,411 280,000 50,000 10,000
    TOTAL 3,200,000 (50.2%) 2,600,000 (41%) 580,000 (9%)
    6,380,000
    *THIS MATHEMATICAL PROJECTION SHOWS RULING MIGHT WIN THE 2016 ELECTIONS.THIS PROJECTION ASSUMES THE ELECTIONS WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY VOTER APATHY AND OTHER UNFORESEEN EVENTS. THE PERCEPTION OF PARTY STRONGHOLD HAS BEEN APPLIED TO THIS PROJECTION, FOR EXAMPLE THE PF ARE LIKELY TO COME OUT STRONG IN LSK,…

  11. The evidence is everywhere:
    1. Abuse of ZNBC, Times of Zambia, Daily Mail against the opposition. The opposition have been blacked out from these public media;
    2. Use of illegal ministers using state resources to campaign for PF;
    3. PF violence like we saw in Mtendere on Monday;
    4. Police bias against the opposition;
    5. ECZ bias against the opposition, including transporting of ballots in the absence of stakeholders; etc
    The evidence is everywhere, I’m shocked Edgar is still asking for it!

  12. After Constitution court ruling, we now know the character of Edgar Lung. He is a thief. All PF mps if they win will lose their seats which will be declared null and void. The so called president lawyer ignored the advice of attorney general who told him the ministers jobs were terminated when the parliament dissolved on 12th May 2016. It is pay back time. HH 2016

  13. FP VRS UPND
    lSK PF = 43%, UPND = 54% OTHERS 3%
    CB PF 39%, UPND = 60% OTHERS 1%
    NORTHERN ( MUCHINGA AND NORTHEN) = PF 54%, UPND = 42% ; OTHER 4%
    EASTERN PF= 58, UPND= 41%; OTHER 1%
    CENTRAL PF = 18%; UPND 81%, OTHER 0.9%
    SOUTHERN PF = 9%, UPND 90, OTHER .99%
    LUAPULA= PF 42%, UPND 56% , OTHER 2%
    NORTHWESTERN PF. 7%, UPND 91% OTHER 2%
    WESTERN PF = 16%; UPND 83% OTHER 0.99%

    THE REASON WHY PF WILL LOSE IN THIS GAME IS BECAUSE OF MANY ISSUES WITHIN AND OUTSIDE DIVISION SUCH AS , HUNGER IN VILLAGES, VIOLENCE DURING THEIR CAMPAIGNS, BIASES EG COMMUNICATION MEDIA ETC. PRESIDENT HAS FAILED TO CONVINCE PEOPLE OF WHAT HE INTENDS TO DO FOR THEM IN FIVE YEARS, INSTEAD HE KEEPS ON DOING WHAT SATA LEFT.

  14. Stop hallucinating and just wait patiently for tomorrow! We are sending UPND into TOTAL EXTINCTION after 11th August.

  15. 1) Kambwilization of ZNBC. Are you sure you don’t know that ZNBC and all public media are now a propaganda mouthpiece for the Patriotic front? Well, they are. Disadvantaging opponents to maximize your winning chances at our expense as taxpayers is rigging.
    2) Constitutional court ruling of your daylight crime, whereby you and the entire self righteous pompous breed of ministers have helped yourselves to public resources against the wishes of the people, is creating an unfair advantage by your ministers in accessing govt resources that they should have no access to, therefore that is perfect rigging. You are a lawyer right?
    3)State sponsored cadre violence and intimidation of opponents. You as commander in chief could easily stop it but you didn’t and don’t want to, because it is to…

  16. 4.) Cadrerization of the police is definite rigging. Sadly you have embedded this cadre ‘ professionalism ‘ in all walks of a Zambian’s life.
    5)Cancellation of opposition rallies at short notice is giving yourself monopoly in the election and that is rigging.
    6.) Refusal by your returning officers to allow polling agents(in opposition strongholds)to vote in the distant places you have dispatched them to. is adding sums for your rigging arithmetic .. You really think Zambians are stupid??
    7.) Shutting of networks notice on election day and the day after as is reported by airtel and others is rigging

  17. IT IS THAT TIME TO GO AND VOTE FOR ECL AND PF TOMORROW!!! LETS VOTE VOTE FOR CONTINUITY. LETS VOTE NO TO TRIBALISM. LET US VOTE YES IN THE REFERENDUM.

    VOTE PF!!! VOTE ECL!!! VOTE YES TO REFERENDUM!!!

    GOD BLESS ECL, GOD BLESS PF GOD BLESS ZAMBIA

  18. LSK TIMES WHY DON’T YOU POST ECL SUPPORTERS COMMENTS? ARE YOU POLITICALLY BIASED? I STOPPED POSTING, AND DEFINITELY I DOUBT IF YOU WILL POST THIS. WHO EVER WINS WE NEED TO ACCEPT DEFEAT.

  19. Let me provide evidence to EL
    1 Shutting down telecommunications services.
    2.Use of government resources by EL and his minions.
    3 dispatching of ballot boxes without the presence of stakeholders.
    El has no issues

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