The opposition UPND is this week expected file a petition in the Constitutional Court against the re-election of President Edgar Lungu who scrapped through Thursday’s tightly fought election.
And the party is also demanding that somebody takes over the Office of the President in an acting capacity once the petition is filed in accordance with the amended constitution.
UPND Legal Adviser Jack Mwiimbu told Journalists in Lusaka shortly after President Lungu was declared winner that the opposition party will file the petition papers anytime this week.
Mr Mwiimbu also revealed that the Court has also granted leave to commence judicial proceedings against the handling of the election.
“I wish to disclose here that last night we had commenced judicial review process, the court has already given us leave to commence legal process, this matter will be held Wednesday morning, concurrently we are commencing the petition against the results of the presidency,” Mwiimbu said.
He said the constitutional provisions have to take root because the party has overwhelming evidence that the election was stolen from Hakainde Hichilema.
“When there is a petition, somebody else has to act as President until the petition is decided. We are not going to allow impunity in this country,” he said.
“This country is for all of us. This is a very sad day for this country. We so ashamed that we can have an Electoral Commission that colludes with a particular party, that is not what we wanted. That is not what we wanted when we put those people in power. We never thought that such travesty of the law can take place here.”
He added, “The Electoral Commission Chairman even had the audacity to say that the Electoral Process Act was the one which was also used in the 2011 elections. How can a law which was passed this year be passed in retrospect? It just shows that there is something wrong in the understanding of the laws of this country by people whom we assume to be knowledgeable. We cannot allow travesty of the law in this country.”
Mr Mwiimbu continued, “We are aware of what they want to do, we have no doubt in our minds. We are resolved, we are going to take up this matter legally and we will not be constrained by anybody. We know that actually there will be victimisation, some of our supporter’s homes have been attacked. In Chibombo, 10 Kilometres away from here, a school to one of our members has been completely destroyed. His houses have been destroyed, just because he belongs to an opposition party.”
“This not what we fought for, this is not what we wanted as a country, we are not in any way failing to protect our interest, we will protect democracy and we will ensure that the process commences very soon.”
60% below poverty level, 25% inflation , loading, corruption,lawless . 5 more years under this government, To all Zambians voted for PF enjoy .
Go and hung yourself!!
You can count on the learned judges at ConCourt to guide you into concession that there is a winner and loser in elections. This time around, Zambian bought the ideas of ECL against your 10 bullet points scripted on an A4 paper as national development plan. Be warned, there is no loyalty in Zambian politics, you be shredding your money alone with many members coming to ECL house knowing there are many mansions.
You risk handling this funeral by yourselves with everyone else moved on.
Just accept the will of the people HH. Your tonga bulls, lozis and your tribal cousins the Luvales tried to give you their tribal vote, but we Zambians showed you that we are bigger than your tribal bunch.
We call upon Pres. MIYANDA, to join the democracy correction team. This is not HH & Nawakwi fight alone. We can’t eat peace.
We don’t mind another year without President, we never had any since Mwanawasa died anyway.
You may not see how you can eat peace, but never take it (peace) for granted. Syrians will take your place anytime
If Lungu and PF won the election in a free and fair manner, they have nothing to worry about.
If the opposition were given room to.campaign, public media was fair, police unbiased and the ground level, then Lungu can sip some blue label and pop champagne.
But if not, the law courts do rude stuff. Like nullifying elections.
Today, I witnessed anarchy at its best in the name of celebrations. This is what I saw: Malnourished, dirty, bare feet, children and mothers dressed in tattered clothes running towards state house. Along the streets of Lusaka were the now permanent make shift stalls, loads and loads of rubbish. I also witnessed 2 men falling off moving vehicles. At Matero robots, our car was blocked by a mob wearing PF regalia. They forced my wife and I to raise the fist to let us pass. Today’s vote if not reversed is all about: high inflation, high interest rates and higher prices of essential commodities. The external debt will double while the IMF will come in with their SAP. Brace for harder times.
UPND already politically wired, they want to be legally wired and blame everyone in the country ( the Police, the Government, the Church, the ECZ, the Courts but themselves. Look at the goon in the photo; bitterness diffuses from inside out. Shear madness, they can’t manage the feeling of loss and healing will take ages. Envy and jealous rule their conscious. Shame!
Who cares. You told us this even before we voted that if PF wins you shall not accept the results. Even the judges you will be seeing know this. You are just fulfilling what you said.
What is sad is your voting pattern. We know what you do and we just let you go ahead since we know that will take you nowhere.
Do you suppose that we do not see those canters Ferring people to polling stations and the beers that follow. Your own rigging style has failed you for the second time.
You call voters morons and expect them to vote for you. What did GBM, SCOTT, SAMPA AND MULENGA bring to your party? It just makes the loss look much bigger and enjoyable by PF members.
Mwiimbi the kachema go hang we will sort u out legally wenyo
OH!!! YOU HAVE GOT MORE CASH TO NURN? BRING IT ON BA KACHEEMMA IMWE. MEANWHILE SELENIKO TUBAZEKO. THERE’S ALWAYS ONE WINNER AND MANY LOSERS AND AMONGST THOSE LOSERS ARE GOOD AND BAD LOSERS.
For those of you telling these guys to just accept the results and move on, have you considered the fact that they’re just exercising their constitutional right to petition the election results? Do you even know what the constitution says about the issue? If they say they have evidence to show the election was not free and fair, let them present their evidence to the court. It’s their constitutional right and you cannot interfere with, or take that away from them—unless you don’t believe in the rule of law. So think twice before calling them names and telling them to “just accept and move on.” That’s undemocratic.
Please make sure you take this matter up, Lungu is a good man but he lost so let democracy prevail in Zambia such cheating is not good for our children and future Zambian leadership. Its a shame to see what PF have done. all blame goes to ECZ, they are not a true independent board but compromised with the ruling party.
HH stop this f.ooloshness! Kill yourself if you can’t take it. Typical Tonga jealous mentality
Agony is asking for shelter in a house you refused to be part of its construction! You guys refused to support the new constitution now you are rushing to find refuge in it!
I hope the Bill of Rights will not be the same.
The problem with UPND is that there is no free and objective reasoning. You all blindly follow what you leader commands. You are not different from Nazi Germany!
Why do ugly people think ugly? Look at his mouth and his president’s face, so scary. Upnd has better looking and better thinking people who shud take over.
Thank God your free mason failed to win because the poverty level was going to increase instead of reducing further. Just ask those poor villagers your free mason leader grabbed land from.
Now the land in Zambia od going to shared between your two leaders
With the Mugabe rigging formula, copied by Lungus’ men, democracy is dead in Zambia.
Zimbabwe has diamonds to sell on the black market and earn some dollar, what about Zambia?
Zambia has a worst country in the region during KK and is now going to be worst country to live in even worse than Zimbabwe jus mark my words. What I have said has always come to pass.
Intellectuals now is the time to make a move to other countries in which your work can provide for your family and enable you to educate your children.
Leave Zambia to true patriots who even they are hungry and dying of disease will still support Lungu ‘s mediocrity.
Entropy has engulfed the whole of Africa.
YES, BECOZ THIS IS WHAT WE CHOSE AND NOT YOUR TRIBAL PARTY!!!!!!!!!!! BETTER PF WHERE THERE IS ONE ZAMBIA ONE NATION! EVEN IF IT MEANS ONE MEAL PER DAY AND MORE LOAD SHADING
Petition, petition, petition, it won’t work. Get a good example from your losing mayoral candidate Maureen. She has even congratulated the president. Please stop wasting the peoples time. Go back to the drawing board. Even in 1986 Argentina won the world cup thru Maradona hand ball but it was vounted
Wrong, if the technology used today was available then the goal would not have stood. However, you are right at one thing the Zambian system is rotten to the core, but without challenge the extent of corruption will never be known
It not the zambian system being rotten it is ediga lungus GRZ which is a band of crooks.
They disregard laws to suit themselves.
You ain’t seen nothing yet…….
@mjb, you equate soccer to democracy and elections. No wonder the uncalled for wild celebrations. At least in soccer, every team is given a chance to practice on the field and to wear their kit without intimidation.
HH only has ill intentions for Zambia. He has no positive words for the country! Kateke ku Cowthern Dundumwezi!
k 20 per litre fuel, k300 for 25kg , the next few months. IMF is coming to Zambia, this generation will enjoy yellow mazie .
Go fu.cck masebo u will feel better …us we are sontalling jameson tonight. Fye ku court fikaisova .7. Provinces vs 3 u shiuld have denkete
Your myopic thinking failed baba. Did you see the state of that villager you grabbed land from? Is that what you call good leaving in Dundumwezi? Come on in the name of God repent!
People’s mentalities need to shift in Zambia. There’s no One President that can turn a country around alone. You all need to work towards that change not Bu armchair critic!
Choose to lose elections with dignity now before you humiliate yourselves further. You have constitutional rights to seek court opinion but prepare to stomach their verdict too.
@Senior Citizen
Asserting a right is always to be encouraged especially if you have cogent evidence. Like video clips of attack by opponents, denial and or cancellation of rally permits, destruction of property by opponents, stuffing of ballot boxes, mis match of votes to register, weird presidential results restricted to a particular region etc.
In law you assert, then you have to prove on balance of probabilities. So if the ammonium is there, why not? After all Lungu ran a clean non violent campaign without help from illegal ministers….lol
@ Senior Citizen
I fully agree with you on this point. May I just add that the basis of my agreeing with you is due to lack of integrity of the ‘learned bench’ of the court in questions. They are a bunch of sellouts. Who doesn’t know that Mungeni is a pure breed PF cadre? What integrity do you expect from there?
The case will only be an academic exercise. Waste of time. What they have done in stealing the vote is worse than this small issue to them.
@multi,
It’s well known fact that upnd was going to reject the results without a win after amassing the rejects from PF. Let them cry cos tears shall dry
@4.1 Mutoto and 4.2 Zambian,
I have no doubt that you are esteemed fellow learned colleagues upto the task of sustaining an intelligent none opinionated debate. Kindly take off intentional biase substantially based on rumor milling works. We can drive this debate in so doing help each other on this overt source of public opinion. Time for campaign season straight jacket politics is over. Let’s debunk some issues based on substance. Note, I support their right to seek judicial recourse over street anarchy.
How old is this guy? He is always on the internet. What time does he work?
@Senior Citizen
This is an opportunity to entrench the franchise of democratic dispensation and widen the frontier of our jurisprudence.
The senior colleagues in regal robes will forever determine what and how a VALID election is.
I beg to move.
@ 4.4
Thank you my brother. He who seeks equity must come with clean hands. Please drop your subjective commenting before you subject others to the same.
That said, judge Mungeni has no integrity to vote on this case because of her past interactions with PF. I respect your view though because I also hold one.
Poor man. Get a life and move on. We supported you but this one is off the mark. The country needs to move forward.
With results like that the country is going nowhere
K1 to k 20 when IMF comes to zed . 5 more years for load shedding. The gen start ship will be going back soon
Jacob, your freemason has lost. Your limited messaging failed to sale. UPND should go to the convention to find a better candidate, certainly not GBM and not one who comes from Dundumwezi
Zambia will never be ruled by a Satanist. Upnd/Tongas change your voting pattern and your candidate. May God help you find a suitable candidate
It’s home work for Upnd
Keep on commenting , Zambia is not only in Lusaka . People are suffering and know jobs , Go to Copperbelt and check how people are living ! This is 2016 not 1888 .
Copperbelt is even better go to Namwala and see how your leader has impoverished the villagers
No one this bitter should ever be allowed to govern anything. When MMD lost, they put their house together and started infighting. UPND needs new leadership.
Zambia has been delivered from satanists
No news here…..
This is the beginning of the end for UPND
GOOD BYE UPND
I thank you
Just go out there and start campaigning for the next election. Petition this, petition that won’t take you anywhere. Actually the UPND convention should be your first priority. Ba Dundumwezi kkkkkkk
Mr Jack, all you wanted was your relative to be in state house, is that an achievement ?
Haters will Hate
These guys are bad losers. Just go to dundumwezi and create your own state. Don’t bring confussion in the country. We also know that your self proclaimed millionaires were busy corrupting electoral officicers in southern province and chased pf election monitors. So bring it on
GENTLEMEN LETS JUST MOVE ON THIS ARE NOT THE LAST OR FIRST ELECTION.
You are coming to your senses
Mjb, kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk this rabid infected cow is showing signs of reduced derangement
@15 TO ONE HH THESE ARE THE LAST ELECTIONS. THE NEXT ONE TO STAND ON UPND ELECTIONS IS NOW GBM. ALL THE SOUTHERNERS, WESTERNERS AND NORTH WESTERNERS WILL VOTE FOR HIM SINCE UPND HAS NOW BEEN CLEANSED WITH GBM-DISINFECTANT.
That’s the problem with a lot of Zambians – and that is why you have Lungu as President. Simply wanting to exist in mediocrity. The UPND has a right to take a matter to court where it deems fit and justifiable. Why should people be so dismissive of those who want to ensure process and the respect of law are followed? You speak of democracy and shout from the top of mountains about respecting the Constitution. Yet, because you want to protect what you have benefited from Lungu, you choose to deride others and turn a blind eye to glaring injustices – essentially pushing the country to further primitive politics and a dire future for our children. Grow up and be objective!
We all agree. The UPND’s biggest problem though, is their not challenging HH. They cannot continue with a hard to elect persona.
We all agree. The UPND’s biggest problem though, is their not challenging HH. They cannot continue with a hard to elect persona. Convention UPND. That is the only way this party shall survive.
You are one of the most midcore group in UPND. HH is your everything. He has failed so many times but yet you still hero worship him. You refused to be part of the new constitution and yet now you are the first to rush to ConCourt. Badala please please be serious when we are discussing national matters. If you had participated effectively may be some of the weaknesses in the constitution could have been avoided.
You are absolutely spot on…people should realize that the constitution is there for a reason its not a decoration -it is part and parcel of being in a multi-party democracy. This is why I say Zambians are docile people in Kenyan you honestly those ministers would have stayed even 24 hours after Parliament had dissolved, they would have had protested in front of Parliament with pigs and manure…if it was not for LAZ they would have walked away laughing.
Did HH manage to catch Emmanuel Mwamba? ??????
Emmanuel Mwamba is another example of our docility as a people here is a civil servant who has sent the last 6 weeks traveling to and from RSA campaigning PF at the taxpayers expense and time..yet no one has challenged him. If Lazy Bum appoints the Great Galu the same cycle of mediocrity and corruption will continue.
The law is the law. Article 100(8) of the Constitution provides for petition in the Constitutional Court.
It’s your right as UPND to exercise. Go ahead and test the veracity of Lungu victory.
Hahahaha now you have remembered the need for the new constitution ka? We used to tell you guys support the process you refused. You were even refusing to read it!
Now you have been taught a lesson so better read it carefully.
Foolish UPND just the petition you’ve started talking too much again. You fools are you normal or you thinking with your balls. Leave zambia alone we tired of low thinking people like yourselves.
Namalawyers fikopo mu upnd. Mwiimbu & Mushipe, can yougo through the constitution before opening your clean mouths?. It says the Speaker of the National Assembly will ONLY act WHEN the election is NULLIFIED!!! N U L L I F I E D!!!!! Not when you have petitioned. As big as you are you don’t read! Ubupuba bwakwa Nevers is really contagious. About bapena about. Read article 101-105
Where an election petition is filed against the incumbent,
under Article 103 (1), or an election is nullified, under Article 103(3)
(b), the Speaker shall perform the executive functions, except the
power to—
(a) make an appointment; or
(b) dissolve the National Assembly.
Which copperbelt are you talking about?If there are problems the you are putting it, they should have voted Ba Lungu out but instead voted for him to stay in state house. Liars where is your by who shifted his base here then twamulanga st I you are useless
Sadly, 2021 is shaping up to be a revolution – as Lungu is expected to bring Zambia to her knees.
I say “sadly” because revolutions often do not produce competent leadership! Cry my beloved country.
Well, until then, we are moving on with him!
@21 I LIKE YOUR DREAMING. IN THE FIRST PLACE, FORGET ABOUT UPND BEING IN POWER OR EVEN UST SMELLING IT FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS. ALA IMILIMO YALABOMBA BA LUNGU IKAPAPUSHA. THE NEXT PF PRESIDENTS WILL NOT NEED TO OPEN THEIR MOUTHS TO CAMPAIGN. THEY WILL JUST NEED TO WAIT FOR ELECTION DAY TO CAST THEIR VOTE TOGETHER WITH OTHER VOTERS. ALA TWALABOMBA NABENA LUNGU MUMFWA FYE.
HOW I WUD LOVE TO SEE THE LIVE PROCEEDINGS OF THIS PETITION IN COURT…..AS ONE OF ITS KIND IN THIS LAND IT WILL BE IDEA TO FOLLOW THE PROCEEDING AND HEAR OUR LAWYERS ARGUMENTS ESPECIALLY UPND LEGAL COUNSEL MARTHA MUSHIPE……….AWE TEYABANA IYOOOO……..#ECL
If UPND is not careful it will end up worse than UNIP……now they should start mobilizing for the 2021 elections instead of wasting time…people are tired and worn out with these elections and alot of businesses have been affected….having back to back presidential elections is not easy…
Now please let the poor people get their lives back….elections are over.. finito….And we have the winner
GOOD BYE UPND SEE YOU AGAIN IN 2021
I thank you
THE RULE OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE.
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In Democracy the peoples’ wishes rules! It’s done and dusted! Go fight your legal wars.
That said,
Hey! make me up a cup coffee uleke tunwinepo!
The people’s wishes rule
PF GUYS THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE. YOU DO NOT ANALYSES ISSUES BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS GIVEN NOW THE DOGS AND WHEN THE WISE MEN SHOW YOU THE TRUTH, YOU GO ON WITH YOUR INSULTS.
TRULY SPEAKING, ZAMBIA TODAY MUST FEEL ASHAMED OF ITSELF. YES IT COULD BE SO BUT ONEDAY A BOMBSHELL IS COMING. ZAMBIA IS DIVIDED THROUGH TRIBALISM AND THIS IS GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER UNTIL ONE DAY THINGS SHALL BE SOUR BECAUSE OF POOR LEADERSHIP. MY PRAYER IS TO SEE THE BRUISING WOUND WHICH IS BROKEN TO BE MENDED, HOW, BY ALLOWING OTHER SO CALLED LESSER TRIBES TO FIT WHERE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE.
IN HISTORY OF ZAMBIA THIS IS NOW REAL MEANINGFUL ZAMBIA,
These UPND fanatics must demonstrate a sense of dignity. A Germany friend of mine, who was part of the European Union delegation, and has a very good knowledge of Zambia, having spent more than half of his life here, expressed shock at the skewed voting patterns from Southern province. This is not something to be proud of.
What was not skewed about voting pattern of Muchinga, Luapula, Eastern?
Dundumwezi gave ECL 200 whilst Chitulika gave HH 93.
SOUTHERNERS WILL LIVE TO REGRET ABOUT THEIR SKEWED VOTING STYLE WHICH HAS NOW CONTEGIOUSLY BEEN TRANSMITTED TO EVEN THE BEMBAS WHO HAVE NEVER VOTED ALONG TRIBAL LINES. BEMBAS VOTE BASED ON THE PERSON’S BENCHMARKS. NOW THAT THIS TREND HAS FINALLY BEEN DRUMMED INTO BEMBAS’ HEADS, IT WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT TO UNDRUM IT. AND IF THIS SHOULD GO ON FOR SAY 100 YEARS IT MEANS TONGAS MAY NEVER SMELL NATIONAL LEADERSSHIP BEFORE A MINIMUM OF 100 YEARS. ALL THE TRIBES- BA KACHOKWE NABA NGONI WILL RULE BEFORE OUR BELOVED BROTHERS AND SISTERS SMELL POWER. EVEN IF FINALLY THEY SMELL IT, THEY WILL NOT RECOGNISE IT’S POWER. THEY WILL THINK IT IS COW DUNG.
Analyse before you talk. Look at the figures. So if your dull German friend gives a poor analysis you believe. That is why PF rushed for Euro Bond which has now bonded us to poverty for the next 20 years.
Who did not see HH petition these results? HH has been preparing for this before even the votes where cast. If it wasn’t for the papers for voting being printed in Dubai, it was the G12 forms. But this case will pause a challenge to the Connstutional Court. UPND are demanding that the President steps down and that someone else acts. Who is that someone? If they were thinking it will be cartel Matibini, the one who was speaker in the last sitting of parliament, that unfortunately cannot work. Matibini is not speaker. His team went with the previous parliament. A new speaker? This one has not been chosen yet. So who is that someone else?
It’s time to give us a break to work than prolonging the political tensions. We have Rentals to pay for our business. Let’s keep the past in the past and begin working for 2021.
@Senama, first and foremost drop the caps lock on your keyboard. Second, read your post over and over and then revert back to me.
You are saying “allowing lesser tribes to remain where they are” it is you putting them in that corner. Bring different and well thought ideas to the table than a bunch of ubupuba.
To all you haters, spelling doom on Zambia will not pay your bills or cure your mental problems. IMF, IMF, so what, we’ll come out stronger and we will never need IMF one day. You think Hagain Dundumwezi Halusa has new ideas, my foot.
Many people here are just posting like headless pythons.
1) Where in the constitution does it say a candidate must win by 50.3%?
2) Where in the constitution does it say a candidate must win by 1,860,000 votes? We no longer win using totals but using %, in this case 50+1. This is what Chulu was supposed to explain before declaring.
3) 50+1 must be a percentage of the valid votes cast not a percentage of the total votes for Lungu and HH.
4) Lungu has started a long legal battle which may see him not rule this country.
You UPND the problem you have is that you didn’t read the constitution when we were enacting it now you are confused. Artcle 47 of the constitution will help you understand. Its 50% plus 1 vote. or more than 50%.
Now you are rushing to ConCourt and yet you were against the new constitution. You are just a bunch of confused lot believing so much in your free mason leader as a result you don’t even read simple things.
Can you please get your lives back?
You would think that but there is no rule of law in zambia.
It is PF law and zambians better get used to that.
keep on dreaming nakuzinvesa bwino ati the court will rule in your favour – you will die with heart attack my friend. ati legal battle lobe continue leaving in dream land………….its over Lungu is president and no court will rule against it, if you want we can bet – waloba ilyauma
Night school is still being offered. start attending. The winner should get 50% plus 1 vote. When you are done with night school read the constitution. Don’t behave like Mwaliteta
Those of you who feel you want to move on, please do. Do not forget that making issues clear is a better way of moving on. And if you are not fit to debate these issues, we cant force you.
I don’t get it!!!
You guys in UPND, what are you up to?? You refused to back up the New Constitution in Parliament, remember you walked out.
You have refused to back the Referendum which could have given you at least a thin line of survival…
Today, You Jack Mwiimbu , a lawyer in Zambia, you can talk about the New Constitution?? Are you serious?? Are you confused to now seek solace in a Document you refused to support???
@Freddy Munyela, kaili Mwiimbu chipuba.
My brother these UPND guys are shameless individuals. Imagine I remember Jack Mwimbu shouting on top of his voice in Parliament refusing the new constitution today the same shameless lawyer is the first to talk of going to court? Which court the one he refused to create>
Imagine we had the old constitution? tomorrow we would have DUNUNA Reserve and inauguration. We will wait for inauguration but we are Dununaring you!
TROUBLE WITH ABANENSU IS THAT THEY ARE THE, “TULESOSA KUBASUNGU…”. WAS IT NOT FEW WEEKS OR MONTHS AGO WHEN UPND WROTE TO UN, COMMONWEALTH, EU, ETC TO REPORT PF GOVERNMENT. NOW, IS IT NOT THE SAME ORGANISATIONS THAT CAME TO MONITOR THE ELECTIONS AND PRONOUNCED ZAMBIAN ELECTIONS, “FREE, FAIR AND TRANSPARENT”? THAT SAID FROM THEM, HOW COME THEY ARE REFUTING THEIR FREE, FAIR AND TRANSPARENT PRONNOUNCEMENTS. THE COURTS WILL USE THESE ORGANISATIONS PRONNOUNCEMENTS TO MAKE A NO-TIME-WASTING JUDGEMENT. ALTERNATIVELY, ECL AND ECZ CAN REFER TO THESE RESPECTABLE INTERNATIONAL BODIES’ PRONNOUNCEMENTS.
Yo petition z going no where u *****.
Ba UPND even in unlikely even that the elections are nullified what I gauarantee you is that you will not be allowed to get all those foolish votes you were getting in EP, MP, NP, LP unless you change your Dundumwezi mindset. Remember many of our people in these provinces didn’t believe when we used to tell them that your votes are based on tribe and not works or deeds.
So game on bring it on. Besides we also have evidence of you campaigning during the voting time. So who was breaking the electoral law?
Just may be if UPND did not welcome all those whose common interest was their hatred for Lungu, the Zambian people might have been sympathetic. I mean those who “DEFECATED NOT DEFECTED” to UPND from PF and MMD. The likes of Muzungu wopusa Scott, GBH, KIlometre Sampa, Jonah Nevers Mumba who is still in the Whales belly for abandoning Gods mission, incompetent Mulenga Sata and horde of non performing MMD MPs. These people did not did not add value to UPND and did not bring any meaningful numbers. All they spoke about was their hatred for Lungu and continuously, insulting and mocking his back ground and belittling the development projects which the masses have witnessed and benefitted from in Zambia. This might have annoyed the voters who were hanging on the fence and changed their vote…
LET THEM BE HEARD. THEY ARE ZAMBIANS. ALL THEIR FOOLISHNESS MUST BE MADE BEAR, ANALYSED AND THROWN AWAY. ITS A BITTER PILL TO LOSE.
the beauty of democracy kindly go ahead and petition first thing tomorrow morning but believe you me Lungu nachipwa he is president and the court will not ORDER FOR ANOTHER ELECTION and if you want we can bet. You guys are not clever that is why i wonder if you have political advisers – the best move for you is to leave it as it is and people will start respecting you. I can assure you GBM is not agreeably to go ahead with a petition because he knows politics. Did you ever see the master himself Sata petition an election………mulechenjela and make smart moves and dont be emotional when making decision. Lwenu politics teyabana iyo
BUSHE KU COURT KWA KUYA FYE CHI YEYEYE. WANYA ICHISUSHI “PUU”. ATI NAYA KU COURT.
The numbers game with ECZ is hard to win because they really do a good job. This would even be tough now that all the major PVTs including that run by the Church group has confirmed that their respective numbers tally with those of ECZ. UPND needs to consult widely on this before rushing to court. It may be better to save some left over campaign moneys for party reorganisation given that God & the people of Zambia have already chosen President Lungu with a significant margin. God Bless Zambia
@ Freddy Munyela you have hit the nail on its damned head. Very valid point. How dare they seek to use a document they never supported? Shame on UPND
The law is the law of the land. Even if some people didn’t support it, once it was adopted, that is the law to use. Which law do you want UPND to use? Just like the President, even if about half the population didn’t vote for him, when he is sworn in, he is President for all Zambians.
HH Retired.. GO well SIR. PF 2021 and 2026
No doubt the results were definitely manipulated… They are not very clever too as it took them almost 5 days to find a way to stack up numbers. You can see how they tried to come up with that percentage results. By the way, doesn’t the Constitution say 50% + 1? Is it plus 1 vote or plus 1%?
The ConCourt results are almost predictable in this low budget movie script.
It is 50%+1 vote
The Ka petition will be thrown out on Monday 22. Tuesday swearing in.
JUST ACCEPT THE LOSS..Ebuntu….
Every single election that HH has lost has been stolen???. The only one that will not be stolen is the one that he (Hichilema ) will win.
You have said everything on this blog. Sure will an HH victory be sacred with no rigging iye imwe.
Sorry, PF will petition the results in Southern Province.
HH one consitituency 45,000 v Edgar 100 votes?
@ John Chinena – excellent posting:
Who cares. You told us this even before we voted that if PF wins you shall not accept the results. Even the judges you will be seeing know this. You are just fulfilling what you said.
What is sad is your voting pattern. We know what you do and we just let you go ahead since we know that will take you nowhere.
Even From Chiti who’s been a thorn in PF ‘s skin has confirmed that the results are just as people voted. Aljazera and ZWD are misleading the Upnd. Let’s get a rest from the anxieties we’ve just gone through
As usual aljazeera and zwd are all spreading hate
Even Father Chiti who’s been a thorn in PF ‘s skin has confirmed that the results are just as people voted. Aljazera and ZWD are misleading the Upnd. Let’s get a rest from the anxieties we’ve just gone through
Keep dreaming with your under 5 leader. Sakwiba Sikota would have had been President of UPND nd Zambia a long way. back had you not proclaimed UPND to be a Tonga party nd be lead by a Tonga. Dununa reverse this statement nd apologise to Zambian’s. Then God willing it’ll will come to pass. I thank you…!
Go ahead and petition even though the same judges appointed by Lungu will not disqualify him to protect their bellies. This has been a sham election and Zambians are yet to suffer
I am ashamed to be Zambian right now, not for the election results but for the sort of nonsensical writing I am seeing here. Some elderly people think like children. What is wrong with a person wishing to go and get redress from the courts of the land? We have a group here that is civil and peaceful and that is why they chose to have their grievances channeled in the manner duly constituted for that purpose. We have had instances where otherwise legal groups have turned to insurgency to foster their political agenda and in many such cases its the civilians that receive the blunt of the conflict, case in point is Angola. As Zambians we take for granted the peace that we enjoy, we never realize how close we come to civil strife. Laws are passed for a purpose, laws enable us to live in an…
@ John Chinena – excellent posting:
Who cares. You told us this even before we voted that if PF wins you shall not accept the results. Even the judges you will be seeing know this. You are just fulfilling what you said.
What is sad is your voting pattern. We know what you do and we just let you go ahead since we know that will take you nowhere.
i would advice upnd to petition as many times as they want,kaili they have to pay,its through that very money bambi balishishamo abana,according to ecz pf won by 50.35%.that ka small percentage has confused upnd who r saying its 50% 1%,r u serious so u think they couldnt just write 51% pantu 50% 1%=51% But u cannot add 50% 1 person.pf got 50.35% even if it was 50.0000001% kaja ka last one puts edgar on the kings chair
Agony is seeing all this mental slavery among Zambians. Someone said that some Africans need another 100 years to start reasoning like their peers in the developed countries. I wonder what is wrong with us. What is it that you gain by insulting your fellow compatriot just because he supports another party or comes from a different part of the country??????
and i was seated outside state house celebrating with my zambian family when i heard some one tap my shoulder ati my guy come out of the road hh aleisa im like 4real,it didnt take long before i saw a upnd convoy moving really slow with its followers raising a hitler salute,upon reaching the main state gate they stopped,then hh came out of the last car when he shouted at the driver in front ati iwe chi dudunezi move foward kaili,then the convoy carried on to woodlands then chilenje the kabwata then nyumbayanga until livingstone theb zimbabwe then angola,then congo and im thinking wow i wish i joined the convoy coz i really love to travel and eat watermelons eating the red inside and leaving the green part coz green always remains.safe journy guys,see u in 5years
@ Joshua defending a wrong is simply refusing to change,im guessing u tonga and my guess is u voted for him,not necessarily that his 10pointy pointy plan was the answer but because he too is tonga,if such was the way we voted then we could have been saying ok guys next president is lozi then luvale then lenje,but we dont vote on tribal lines(so we thought) we didnt vote 4 hh not that because he is tonga but because he didnt have a vision,if he did it was channeld to his pockets,fruits of the spirit r JOY,LOVE,PEACE,PATIENCE,KINDNESS,GOODNESS AND SELF CONTROL…im seated here thinking what spirit does hh role with,hmmm let me see
i tried explaining to u that pf is bigger but u kept a blind eye to reality,r we the pf cowards for refusing to fight back when u burnt down the matero office,when u tore down our posters,when u killed an official in chongwe,when gbm threatend our president that he shall go for the throat,when a teacher in southern was beaten until dead for her being bemba,for a cader raping a miner just because her parents supported pf and much more,no freind,we were so geared to fight u any time any place but edgar said NO,so we heard him and so we put our shields down…edgar is of a beautiful sound mind.im breaker and i approve this message
HH in Western Society the way you acquired your wealth using your self claimed Smart Business Economics Skills, You would never ever stand chance to work even voluntary offer your financial donations even to homeless poverty schemes.
It would be morally comprehensively rejected.
So don’t insult the desperate poverty Zambian Communities in deceiving them that you have any sense of interest for them.
Just get on with the GBMs and the Highly Greedy Society friends
You have recently deservely chosen.
If the North and East had voted the the South and West had voted how many votes was HH going to have. Please tally it!
@ Jo Breaker
This is exactly what Joshua means just because someone isn’t PF then the are tonga and voted for HH. Such small mindedness. You should just be for PF then people will think your in the right and anything else will mean your in the wrong.. Give us a break and try to grow up. Some of you are adults but your reasoning is as that of a child…Am not tonga and am not for UPND but am tired of block heads thinking the know it all because of party affiliation.
We said in the past eight years that this type of voting is bad especially when it spreads to the other provinces of our country, you ignored, now look at what you have made our country into?
H.H has brought a very bad type of politics of which if left unchecked, it’s a source of confusion. Sometimes you have to be civil as aspiring leaders and learn from the ordinary citizen of this country.
An election is not won in court but its won by voting, democracy is about the majority whether they are wrong or right they win. No one or three judges have power to appoint a president.
The problem is that the judges are also upnd chaps!
When asked why he voted for PF he replied when they win we can celebrate and have fun just like when Zambia scores a soccer goal even if it doesn’t really benefit us.
@ 1.16 Sinazeze – I cant agree with you more. These chaps were against the new constitution but they are now rushing to it.
@ John Chinena – excellent posting:
Who cares. You told us this even before we voted that if PF wins you shall not accept the results. Even the judges you will be seeing know this. You are just fulfilling what you said.
What is sad is your voting pattern. We know what you do and we just let you go ahead since we know that will take you nowhere.
Mr Mwiimbu,why were you not the one raising issues during the annoucement of the results?Martha Mushipe was too emotional and we needed you our sober minded lawyer.We missed this part i think….no wonder they stopped answering questions and just announced the results.Or you could have told her to calm down.I hope we have overwhelming proof of the claims,otherwise it will be merely academic.ECL has his people on the concourt,so what are the odds of them overturning the vote?even the alleged miscalculation by ECZ,they will easily rectify by cooking up figures or simply saying they erred on some of the results.So looks like we’re up against a mountain.But it never hurts to try i guess!!
HH is in a problem, a lot of people want to share his wealthy, through the court of law. eat with him by taking PF to court. HH must be very careful, who to give him the correct advice
Or do they just want to eat with him and drain his income. they are just interested to drain him,
I m sorry for MY FELLOW Zambian especially HH. He has spent a lot of money and the lawyers are not even merciful with him, they want to drain more and more.
UPND ARE DULL AND HOPELESS POWER HUNGRY LIONS HOW DO YOU FEATURE A LOSING PARTY PRESIDENT 5 TIMES AND LOSE YOU GUYS HAVE NO TECHNICAL BENCH TO THINK AND HELP YOU WIN AN ELECTION ZAMBIA IS NOT MADE UP BY 3 PROVINCES SOUTHERN WESTERN AND WESTERN NO!!!! COME 2012 UPND WILL LOSE TERRIBLY AND MISERABLY AGAIN
Yes HH is very wise man spending his own richness for campaigns than Lungu who is using gorvenment funds in short stealing from the people of zambia who are already facing economic problems. Whats wrong with you people can you not open your eyes and see what is happening. I cry for zambia and am ashamed to be a zambian at this moment. Bear in mind that Lungu will never ever share with you this money he is stealing from the country. You are just becoming poor and poor, things in zambia are not ok write now. Accept to change leadership when it is needed. Write now its time to change leadership. Who ever chosen if he does not put interest in the peoples problems remove and put another one. That is democracy. Do not accept zimbabwe system. Not one party state!! NO never again.
If rerun today or tomorrow, HH will get 0.001 vote in Northern province, Eastern, Muchinga, luapula, and partly Lusaka he will reduce, it IS NOW HE WILL CRY MORE AND MORE
“This country is for all of us.” Dundumwezi.
chin Chin, very correct HH is very wise and his wisdom uses his money campaigning and he has to spend more to the lawyers in the name of fighting for presidency. just to be in the state house. We need to pray for him and his family. especially at this moment so that God can guide you in the way God can. and as well to have him the sober Lawyers not who want to drain his income
WOOW Viva Edgar
Dundumwezi Is for us all Zambians, or is it for HH only?
PF should also take Dundumwezi to court petitioning for tribal voting since the votes was according tribal line
Let the courts decide please! Hopefully, you will accept when all evidence is concluded. The fact is that you ganged up on tribal lines and the rest of the country realised what you were up and obviously they outnumbered you. Where do you think such a case would go? Can someone make your people understand that this is what you did. If you fail to say the truth to your people, you will never win an election in Zambia. Zambia is one of the most urbanised countries in Africa and will not accept to be duped into jungle groupings anymore, you are going against our history and taking us back to what our forefathers fought for. Unacceptable behaviour and the consequences are grave. Do not lie to your people. Why do you think Lusaka voted against yout 10 points?
If you must win, win genuinely, not by stealing votes you brood of dishonest people, God will see you. if you will swear in lungu you will be bringing a curse on yourselves because he is not clean. Let the law take its course without fear or favour. Do not block justice
Stolen Post : A new name has been added to the dictionary.
HICHILEMA~pronounced as (He::Chi::Lay::Mar) MEANING~failing SYNONYMS~unsuccesful, unwanted,outcast, losing. RELATED WORDS~power hungry, bitter.
ETYMOLOGICALY~ the name was derived from Hichilema Hakainde, a 21st century Zambian politician who failed all his contested elections at presidential level.
WORD MEANING.
HICHILEMALISATION~the process of failing.
HICHILEMANISM~the belief in failing.
HICHILEMAOLOGY~the study of why things fail.
HICHILEMARED~a person who failed.
HICHILEMEE~a person who fails.
HICHILEMATOGRAPHY~a device used in the study of failing. HICHILEMONOPOLY
~the continuous failing in one thing without ceasing. HICHILEMANIASIS~the sickness caused by failing.
HICHILEMAPHOBIA~the fear of failing…
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Hello Nosedramas and Je Je! I think this is an overwhelming defeat of a Tonga party and those who watch dogs in Zambia as evidenced by a group of people who comment here from one block and run an Online “news” website similar to the Post Newspaper! What do you think guys?
This of this tribal party in Zambia! One more thing to do to finish it off! Castrate!
@ 63Chin Chin, did you disscuss that in your tribal grouping?
50% + 1 Calculation.
Constitution (Amendment)No 2 of 2016 ,47(1)
Add votes for all candidates and get 100%, In this case 3,695,710 is the total of valid votes cast representing 100%. Then 50% of 3,695,710 is 1,847,855 of the valid votes cast
EL scored 1,860,877 which is 50.35% with a difference of 13,022 votes. Therefore any extra vote above 50% qualifies EL attain 50% + 1 target
Very sad reading. I have just been looking at the votes on ECZ web site. If the other provinces went to vote at 76% plus using the same neganega or is it dudunumwezi style then no one will talk about winning. Every one should worry about what is going on. One wonders with the hate speaches and insults and tribalism going on where we are going. I believe the whole civil service and foreign posts will be Tonga.The bembas and others will be taught a lesson.Why .Am a very proud Bemba and will remain so as I was born one. I was never taught in my childhood to hate anyone hence the mix in my family of Lozis,Tongas,ngonis etc as my grandchildren am proud. When I employ people I have never asked them their tribe .
How do leaders talk about the constitution court as if it is their back yard…
Upnd are bad losers!!upnd went into 2016 elections as winners!!they won before we even voted-shame!!they told the world that due to poor economy,hh will win lusaka an cb.but sadly records at ecz clearly show that instead pf swept votes in the said two provinces!!!today,upnd has gone to Concourt,but in the next few days,if upnd loses in this court,they will call concourt all sorts of names-the way upnd is blaming ecz today!!!LOOK,ZAMBIA IS BIGGER THAN HH AND HIS BANTUSTAN 3 PROVINCES!!HH CANT WIN THE PRESIDENCY UNDER 50% + 1 BY ONLY WINNING 3 PROVINCES AND LESS THAN 55MPS!!SO TELL YOUR HH TO MOVE ON AND SHOW MATURITY!!ALMOST ALL WELL RESPECTED COUNTRIES SUCH U.S.A,UK,FRANCE, ETC AND ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS UN,AU,EU,ETC HAVE CONGRATULATED ECL SO WHAT CAN UPND ACHIEVE HERE!???!JUDGES IN…
Tongas’ and tribal voting should ask their Kachema to go and concentrate on farming. The guy (HH) is not salable to the Zambian Electorate Paragraph. ECL has never lost elections in Zambia as a Presidential candidate. Let HH be replaced by Jack Mwimbu/Mazoka Junior because this Party belongs to Tongas and NOT GBM/C.BANDA OR M MWANAWASA.
Sorry Guys we want to move on – SELA TUBOMBE PANTUMWAFILWA UKUSONTA APOMWABOMBA BAKACHEMA