Friday, March 29, 2024

UPND files application to have all Election Materials put under custody of the Court

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GBM and HH at the Magistrate Court
FILE: GBM and HH at the Magistrate Court

Petitioners of the August 11, General Election have filed a preliminary application for the ballot papers and other election material to be in the custody of the court.

The Petitioners are United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema and Party Vice President for Administration Geofrey Mwamba who was his Running Mate.

Mr. Hichilema and Mr. Mwamba have sought a court order for the Electoral Commissioner of Zambia-ECZ to deliver the ballot paper to the court for custody.

They have also sought an injunction to restrain the ECZ from tampering, altering and destroying any election material.

This is according to an Inter-parte Summon for Detention, Custody and Preservation filed in the Constitutional Court.

The Inter-parte hearing in the matter has been adjourned to tomorrow because the respondents’ lawyers were not served with the petition on time.

One of the lawyers for the petitioners Gilbert Phiri of PNP Advocates , however told journalists at the court today that the adjournment has been necessitated on grounds that the respondent’s have new lawyers that need to be acquainted with the petition.

The respondents in the matter are President-Elect Edgar Lungu, Vice President-Elect Inonge Wina and the Electoral Commission of Zambia-ECZ.

The matter is before Constitutional Court President Justice Hildah Chibomba. Mr Hichilema and Mr Mwamba filed the petition last Friday. They are seeking a Court Order that the declaration of President Edgar Lungu as a winning Presidential candidate was null and void and must be set aside.

They have alleged that President Edgar Lungu did not get the 50 plus one of the total votes cast. Mr Hichilema and Mr Mwamba have also claimed that the Voters Register was not credible and its non-availability before the elections compromised the electoral process.

They further contended that there was no compliance with the Electoral Process Act in the conduct of the elections.

The petitioners are being represented by Malambo and Company, Simeza Sangwa Associates Lukona Chambers, Mushipe and Associates , Dove Chambers, Dindi and Company and PNP Advocates.

The respondents are being represented by lawyers State Counsel Practitioners Bonaventure Mutale, Eric Silwamba and Abyud Shonga-the former Attorney General.

125 COMMENTS

    • I’d rather all the channels at the UPND’s disposal are exhausted than crap about 5 more years for a clueless, desperate and opportunistic drunk! He’s still hanging on despite the law in place dragging him out.

    • HH is becoming more and more desperate. This chronic loser`s desperation to rule the people who have rejected him for 5 times leaves a lot to be desired.

    • This tribalist thinks he owns the judicially just because he has his follow tongas, lozis, Luvales and other bantustans in sensitive positions.

    • Why not Attorney General responding on behalf of elected government? This case is classic, it will take 1 year.

    • Abena suntwe wa suntwe….amano mwa kwatila ku matako nangu shani? u are the same butt heads that failed to win clear cut and now are saying Edgar rigged??? wait till this court crap is over…southern province will become the Malabo of Zambia…trash dump!!!! if I was Edgar I would punish the whole lot of those smelly cattle ranchers who voted like they are voting for Jesus…no development for the next 5 years mwe mbwa imwe….

  1. The country is at Ransom by the ravings of a paranoid schizophrenic who feels entitled to the Presidence by virtue of being Tonga. UNDP is a Tonga cult and all cults are led by mad men. Zambia has to say no to this chaos.

    • @Nubian, your cult is led by RB . If Lungu was not from eastern there would be RB workers in state house, such knife thrower Kaizer Zulu who is political advisor to Lungu . Are these the politics we deserve. Lungu isheld at random.

    • UPND stop trying to cause a civil war. Wake up man! Accept defeat and try again in 2020! Useless PF at least make an attempt to unify the country. Next thing there will be a civil war and the country will be divided like Sudan into North and South. You will set the country on fire. UPND in 2020 with try a younger man/woman who is not racist and only loves Tongas. Most of the younger generation born after 1975 are not racist and have married outside their tribe. I am bemba but married a tonga and I was born after 1980.Shame on you ‘elders’. What is Lungu doing? Why is he not going to the people in southern, NW and western to reassure them we are ONE ZAMBIA ONE NATION? He needs to consult Kenneth Kaunda because he clearly does not have the skills to unify people who are not his tribe or…

    • Word Les Nubian….But coming to think of it, even if these *****s were to spark any form of violence, it would just take a hand full of PF supporters to get on a few buses and go and kick the living day lights out of those butt heads! Wait and see! GBM can go ahead and incite the violence that he wants so much, he will run for his life, worse still give birth coz his stomach is almost exploding.

  2. numbian prince remember we Tongas we are listening to your insults.Time act will come soon,we have voted,we are waiting for the con court then shall act.God Jehova is for Oppressed Zambians.

    • WHO IS OPPRESSED BETWEEN YOU AND THE NON TONGA PEOPLE YOU ARE MURDERING LIKE COWS. NIMWEBO MULECHITA OPPRESS ABANENU FINYO FYABANYINENWE

    • u cursed tongas u even knw that this case is going nowhere if u have brain please follow stories frm ur propaganda zwd u will tell me that all this z due to desparecy by ur learders who hav nothing to offer zambians. leave us we continue developing zambia i wish tongas where not part of zambia wen i look at wat z happening in namwala this is civil war

    • JEHOVA HUH!
      WOULD YOU CARE TO TELL US WHICH DINOMINATION YOUR ASPIRING PRESIDENT GOES TO? FREE MASON
      WE DON’T NEED THAT. WE ARE CHRISTIANS AND WE ARE NOT ABOUT TO LET A SHONONGO LEAD US. GOD FORBID.

  3. Lets Just share this country after all its a unitary State since Bembas want to rule for ever.Go back to the hills were eat Finkubala,Monkeys, Rats and cassava.

    • Compatriots, I don’t agree that we should insult tribes wholesome and this applies to both divides of the nation at ‘war’. We have common kids and relations. Jivundi Banda, Mikatazo Bwalya, Jolezya Kawimbe etc.

    • Is it Bembas who are in power right now? Mind you, no Bemba has ruled this country from independence. KK was from Malawi, Chiluba was Aushi from Luapula, Mwanawas was Lenje from Central, RB is an Easterner, Sata was Bisa from Northern. Edgar is an Easterner. So, why are you obsessed with Bembas who have never even ruled this country?

    • u dull ***** z lungu a bemba . a real bemba has neva rule this country and we dont care and not in punic lik u who want a tonga to rule mafi yenu. us we ar unique we only parcipate in making one a king yes!!!!!!! we are king maker any of this learders had full blesssing from bembaland and your hh seems will neva with killing happening in namwala mwaloba ilyauma ba makandi.

    • We are tired of tonga this tonga that , bemba this bemba that! Stop it at once. Zambian peace is at stake because of such careless sentiments!

  4. Fellow Zambians, your sentiments are very un – Zambian. Please desist! What has happened to mature objectivity, where different opinions are shared without having to demean the other? Why can’t we be agents of unity? We can do better than this. Excellent comment Juito Chapili. Very mature and uniting. Keep on fellow peace maker and may God bless you.

  5. If we all take a deep breath, we’ll give ourselves chance to rewind and realize how misguided the fanatics on both sides are and it’s must be allowed to continue. Zambia is not about PF or UPND but about an ordinary boy, girl, man or woman north, west, south east who wakes up every morning just to live and let live. For the first time since independence and across 5 past president, we now have internally displaced people; all because of a thankless position of president! SHAME ON US!!

  6. As a young Water Engineer in the Department of Water Affairs in North Western Province in 1974 I was in charge of among other things the digging of shallow wells and equipping them with a windlass with a chain and a bucket. I found that one of the villagers had removed the chain from the windlass and used it to tie his dog. The well was not appreciated just like the infrastructure that has been developed in Southern, Western and North Western Provinces have not been appreciated and let infrastructure development go to provinces where it is appreciated and the damaged infrastructure should not be repaired.

    • Vandalism of public property is everywhere. Go to Chilenje and see how residents are using drainages as garbage dump sites. As for development, its the job of govt to provide public goods and services to its people that’s why we tax. People don’t have to shout praises to govt for doing its job. As govt that fails to do that doesnt deserve to be given mandate to govern.

    • @12.1 Ngolwa, you can even see in your last sentence how you have contradicted yourself! Has Lungu and PF failed to provide infrastructure? They have done that job pretty well given the circumstances! It is only logical that when ones does a good job they are employed to do they get a praise! Are you telling me employers who pay salaries should not thank their employees when they meet their performance targets? What a bout a children who get good support from parents,don’t they have a duty to thank their parents each time they do something good for them?Putting rubbish in a drainage is not the same as burning a building the former is just a misuse while the latter is utter destruction, a complete reflection of babarism which @12 Senior Eng is talking about!

  7. Beware kicks of a dying horse! HH dragging his syncopantic tribesmen into desrepute with aid of a mouth foaming lunatic

  8. I hope it is not too late. Those people started verifying the ballots on Saturday.Tongas if you want to rule this country your time will come. That time may be a few weeks from now, a few months or even years. You cannot defeat the people’s voice. Last year the majority wanted Edgar and he won a clean game. If this one was not a clean game(11th August),the court will tell us so and another election will be held.

  9. They are even confusing the court now. Today this no, tomorrow this okay, today take the ballots to court building. If they rigged the elections, they have already balanced the figures and ballots. So HH and GMB are wasting time.

  10. This is exactly what happens when you have two business men masquerading as politicians….they don’t care about the poor citizens of the country…all they think about is how they can further enrich themselves even if it means blood shed…characteristics of being a satanist…now am 100% sure HH is a devil worshiper

    Edgar Lungu 5 more years

    I thank you

    • Bemba boy ask your friends how much they are failing to buy Muchopo and braied Tbone its now expensive a goat is 900 and a pig 1200 maybe try Finkubala ,rats ,shononkonono,and monkeys

  11. *****s stop marigaring about the place u will not enter…state house is blessed no cow or mabisi will go there….

  12. what is 50+1% of 3.781.505 then we can start aguying of whether ECL won or not because the total votes lungu got doesn’t give him 50 % 1.860.877 ) for example 3.781.505 ÷ 2 = 1.890.752.5 this is the 50% so guy on this one UPND have some questions to ask the ECZ to why did they declared mr lungu a winner no one managed. To get 50 % so that is a point or maybe they used another mathematics cold ( insamushi ) this is not the problem for the winner but the announcer who is ECZ & mr Esau chulu ….this is a job misconduct they should be arrested guys just this one shows you how much the election was manipulated

    • Ba mudala the Votes cast was 3,781,505 from 6,698,372 giving us 56.45409064% now the rejected votes 85,795 giving us the valid votes amounting to 3,695,710 ECL got 1,860,877 if you happen to calculate in percentage it will give you 50.35235449% simple arithmetic.

    • @Did,
      You see, you are lacking understanding.
      Percentages are not calculated from the total Vite, but the total VALID vote.
      Now, if your approach is what HH is using to carry out his petitions then he is misguided and he is headed for massive humiliation by the courts outcomes.
      Watch this space .
      It appears some people very proud of speaking and taking actions in ignorance.

    • So what are you people saying? The 85,000 people that were registered voters and cast their votes legitimately must be ignored just because the ECZ has decided their vote was not good enough?

      Who is deciding in this election, the People of Zambia or the ECZ?

    • very dull i thought u hav bn at a certain school to learn this things percentage goes with valid vote a rejected vote z gud as zero my frend thats why its rejected cool down the game was very clear and lungu won clearly no offside netting yalitenta clearly.

  13. The pf leaders are busy calling for peace while they are doing everything possible to retain power. They just want ZAMBIANS to be quiet while they are busy breaking laws. No any sane person will listen to them except some blind followers. HH should fight hard to make them(pf) understand that no one is above the law.

  14. Just some guided for HH and GBM concerning 50%+1. President Edgar Lungu reached 50+1 of the valid casted votes, not casted votes. The constitution on 50%+1 talks about valid casted votes. Already on that premise you have lost your petition. On ministers staying in office, you have again directed it wrongly. You should have said all the results of elections starting from councilors, mayors, MPs across the country were rigged not just presidential. Again on that one you have lost. On ZNBC coverage you know that though some of your adverts were denied some were aired. Again on that one you have lost. I expected HH to include proof of someone voting 6 times and the 14,000 ballots of Kanyama but he has not implying those were just speculations. Failure to condemn violence is also painting HH…

  15. kembo kampala Did…what are u?…the 50% plus one didn’t mean half of whatever u are thinking…its total votes casted shared among losers then plus one individual…ask me more u need extra lessons….

  16. @Did. The 50% + 1 vote is based on the number of valid votes and not total votes cast [rejected + valid]. The figure you have indicated is total votes cast [valid + rejected]. Total votes = 3,781,505, Rejected votes = 85,795, and Valid Votes = 3,695,710. 50% of 3,695,710 is 1,847,855. 50% + 1 = 1,847,856. ECL got 1,860,877 which is 13,021 more than 50% + 1.

  17. aLL ANTI TONGAS, YOU BEING UNFAIR. REMEMBER THERE ARE TONGAS IN PF AND THERE ARE TONGAS WHO VOTED FOR ELC BUT YOU ARE BUSY INSULTING AND DEMEANING ALL TONGAS. WHY ARE YOU LIKE THAT. YOU DONT EVEN HAVE ANYTHING TO SHOW AS AN INDIVIDUAL. YOU ARE FULL OF VIOLENCE AND RUBBISH IS CONTROLLING YOUR HEADS. DEMEAN HH AND NOT HH’S TRIBE. THERE IS INTERMARRIAGE AND WE HAVE INTERMARRIED. WHAT HAPPENS TO PERSON WHOSE MOTHER IS NSENGA AND HIS FATHER IS TONGA? LET US LEARN TO MEET THOSE WE DONT PERSONALLY LOVE THAN ENVOLVING OTHERS. YOU VOTED FOR ECL BECAUSE OF HIS TRIBE NOT HIS DEEDS. WE VOTED FOR HH BECAUSE OF HIS TRIBE AND DEEDS.

    • Analyst. I agree with you. There are many tongas who have supported ECL and very good zambians at that. Let us not push this issue further we are one zambia but we are not a nation as seen my our diversity

  18. HH and GBM masaka sana ayi how do you sue ECZ and at the same time you ask the same court to confiscate documents which are not theirs and which court will verify that all documents thru out the country can be kept at the court…The problem with UPND is that they think the courts of law are above the same Law…kikikikiki

  19. My considered view is that those who were spreading false information such as one person voting 5 times, the 14,000 ballots in a bin including the Chipulukusu presiding officer should be prosecuted by ECZ if they do not lrovide crediblr explanation/evidence These are serious alarming statements/ criminal omission that have added to the confusion we are experiencing. Please ECZ prosecute Mushipe, MM, the Chipulukusu presiding officer and any other found wanting. Its the only way will preserve our democracy and stop this irresponsibility

  20. Upnd..awe sure…! Wat are u up to? Plz don’t put Zambia on fire..! Mind u, u are fewer than Pf supporters..! U have lost..period…!

    • Who is going to start the fire you are talking about. If PF is found wanting by the court and the election is nullified, are you going to cause the fire?

  21. GUYS COOL DOWN TONGA OR BEMBE, LAMBA OR LENJE , NYANJA OR USHI WE HAVE ONE COMMON DENOMINATOR WE ARE ALL ZAMBIANS. YOU KNOW BEFORE YOU PUT UP SOME TERRIBLE THOUGHTS YOU SHOULD TAKE TIME TO THINK THROUGH WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SAY AND THINK ON BEHALF OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT MARRIED THEIR TRIBESMEN AND HOW MUCH TENSION YOUR RHETORIC IS CAUSING. MAY THE GOOD LORD GUIDE YOU IN YOUR THOUGHTS SO WE CAN DISCUSS IDEAS AND NOT INSULTS. GOD BLESS YOU

  22. Here is a solution send the utterly Lazy Bum Edgar to the Vatican City so he can join Priesthood as the bum like to kneel and pray and also pretend to humble; then let Edith Nawakwi become our President as she looks like she would be a no nonsense leader.

  23. Ba DID @ 18, the percentage count is based on the valid votes cast and not on the total votes. So, if you want to recalculate the percentage for each candidate, subtract 85,795 from the 3,781,505.

    • The Constitution does not say you can subtract the 85000 votes!

      Ate you saying that those 85000 people do not deserve their votes to be counted?

  24. Fighting a losing battle, these chaps are dumb, in the western world, one could have given it a benefit of a doubt, not in Africa. Boma ni Boma, at the moment pf is boma, upnd is just another political party on a fishing expedition and I don’t see them catching anything coz fishing season is over.

    • Its this selfsame “boma ni boma” ignorance mindset that almost let you think that ministers would still stay in power legally after Parliament is dissolved…no one is above the law and anybody can be challenged.

      Wake up from your docility!!

  25. Why are these Lawyers trying to force what people do not want? He will not win and he will petition again. He will loose and petition again

  26. Let’s hope these guys understand the damage they are doing to the country. HH word of advice, do not follow GBM follow your own path.

    • If you think they are any different, you are wrong. Those two are a copy cut of each other. A very bad combination if you ask me.

  27. HH and GBM are losers.there is information from UPND cadres that HH went to constitution court bcoz he is confident that Chibomba a Tonga,Sitali(Lozi),Mulonda a close relative of ba kesaba Sata and Muyembe(North western) will favor him becoz they belong to one region which voted for UPND.They have assured him of nullifying the elections.But these concourt should be careful before it turns Zambia on fire.The will of pipo should prevail.HH lost in this year election and no short cut should be used.Concourt should be jst stoped to destroy the country to satisfy few selfish individuals.I hope the judges will not use tribe to pass Judgement .God bless Zambia.

  28. Imwe, we have a duty as patriotic Zambians who overwhelmingly voted for President Lunge and the PF to govern this great country for the next 5 SOLID years.
    I think we have given HH and His UPND too much latitude such that as a clear loser of the August elections, he wants to even overstep on our patience. Tomorrow, 23rd August, we could have the inauguration ceremony as provided by the construction but these crooks are treading on the security of our nation and we are just mute, why?
    ECZ is the custodian of of all elections and materials and under no whatever circumstances should the surrender the elections materials to the Concourt. The Concourt mandate is NOT tp preside on election matters but constitutional matters, so HH should not push us too far because when we react, he won’t…

  29. Either way, Hh is fighting a losing battle, mark my words, he ain’t gonna be president of zambia, he ain’t that smart, that’s the reason the zambian people rejected him, we don’t have anything to write home about hh, to start with he doesn’t even have an English first name, that’s not zambian for presidents, it won’t start with him, to sum it up, the chap is not presidential material, we don’t want him, he can go and lead the cowboys.

  30. I strongly advise that we stop throwing stones at Tongas and Tongas stop throwing stones at Bembas and please this issue with open minds if u really want to understand what is happening. Those who have continued to demonstrate and destroying property should hold their peace and wait for the court to redeem them. on 50% +1, its simple mathematics there though some people dont listen to want will not favour them, its TOTAL VALID VOTES CAST that is used there, no two ways about it intellectuals. I thought people argue with more intelligence as leaders of tomorrow who will explain policies to people without cheating them to suit their view.

  31. Dundumwenzi (Ndundumwense) / Southern Province
    16°42’0″ S 26°1’60” E ~1,085m asl 15:30 (CAT – UTC/GMT+2)

    Dundumwenzi (Dundumwenzi) is a hill (class T – Hypsographic) in Southern Province (Southern), Zambia (Africa) with the region font code of Africa/Middle East. It is located at an elevation of 1,085 meters above sea level.
    Dundumwenzi is also known as Dundumwense, Dundumwensi Hill, Dundumwenze, Dundumwenzi, Ndundumwense.

    Its coordinates are 16°42’0″ S and 26°1’60” E in DMS (Degrees Minutes Seconds) or -16.7 and 26.0333 (in decimal degrees). Its UTM position is LB95 and its Joint Operation Graphics reference is SE35-02.

    Current local time is 15:30; the sun rises at 08:59 and sets at 21:06 local time (Africa/Lusaka UTC/GMT+2). The standard time zone for Dundumwenzi…

  32. So what is the government doing about the internally displaced people? The victims of tonga xenophobia. I thought that xenophobia is only for South africa but alas even HH wants it.

  33. Their show of unity is beyond Appearances
    There is nothing common between them as individuals within their group. You can see they are poles apart in individual personality and apparent disposition. But what brings them together? Their unity of purpose is beyond appearances, forged elsewhere. They seek to perpetuate their wealth and power . They are in fact Slaves to their Masters with instructions to ensnare a Nation to bondage for a thousand years to come. But behold, Light shall prevail over darkness. The Lords of hosts always takes His side to those that listens and hears His voice. It’s written in the Heavens above, that the day shall come to pass and Zambia shall be free. Refrain from violence, restrain yourselves from provocation and reach out to Him.

  34. Hazalusa Hagain picturesd with a man he wanted to use to hoodwink smart people of the north to get him and his tribal party votes from the north! But the north are too smart and not as tribal as his Namwala murderers!!

  35. Common Purpose of Opponents.
    As in sport, opponents usually join together as one through gestures of embracing each other to show to everyone that they are part of a common fraternity (Peace and Harmony of a Nation) that is higher than each one in their individual accomplishments with affection and enormous respect for either opponent. Was this their fight or our fight? But shame on them, for they will not embrace and/or congratulate their victorious opponents. They belong to a different fraternity of their Masters with a dark motive.

  36. With so many lawyers, Malambo and Company, Simeza Sangwa Associates Lukona Chambers, Mushipe and Associates , Dove Chambers, Dindi and Company and PNP Advocates, why file so many preliminary applications? Elections by UPND were lost when they decided to hire the successful failure himself Nervers Mumba as their campaign expert and advisor and sidelined Canicius Banda for that role. Having two vice presidents when the constitution recognises and allows only one meant more divisions in the party.

  37. Hired genocidal elements are on this online paper trying to incite ethnical conflict. Hope the international diplomatic and criminal observers are watching this Rwanda, Nazi type re-play. Do not say you were not warned.

  38. Well done UPND. I am not your sympathiser but I support you that when you are aggrieved you use the civilised way or airing your grievance. The people scorning you for going to court have to be forgiven, some of them its lack of proper education, others it is ignorance, others still uncivilised and others poor up bringing. I commend you for I am PF but I still want you to loose in court. My message still stands that you have done the right thing by going to court.

    • When we have disputes lets go to the courts of law.

      My question though is, ‘will Lungu and PF accept an unfavourable court ruling for them?’

      And if they refuse to accept this ruling, who will implement this ruling?

      Is it Kanganja, Attorney General, Cabinet Office, ZAF, ZNS, 2ZR or Commando?

  39. LET ME LECTURE U GUYS WHO ARE SO LOW TO SEE A TRIBE IN EVERYTHING U SAY. EVERYONE OF US HAS A TRIBE BUT TO THINK THAT ONE TRIBE IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER IS A WRONG THEORY. DIVIDING ZAMBIA IN TWO WILL NOT BRING US PEACE. WHY DO I SAY SO? LOOK AT EASTERN PROVINCE FOR INSTANCE, NGONIS AND CHEWAS, DO THEY AGREE WITHIN THEMSELVES? NORTH WESTERN PROVINCE, DO THOSE PEOPLE AGREE WITHIN THEMSELVES? HOW LONG DID IT TAKE FOR CHITIMUKULU TO BE RECOGNIZED, WHY? WASN’T SATA FROM THE SAME PROVINCE WITH THE CHIEF? UP TO TODAY, DID U KNOW THAT ITS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR CHIKUNDAS AND NGONIS TO MARRY? LOZIS AND MBUNDAS DO NOT AGREE, HENCE WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE US? TO LIVE TOGETHER LIKE PARENTS WHO ALREADY HAVE 10 CHILDREN TOGETHER. THE SOONER WE STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS EVIL CALLED TRIBE, THE BETTER.

  40. A graduate with young children a man who claims he first saw Lusaka when he came to university, a villager whose first plot was in Kalingalinga, one with no business acumen except that AKM made him rich..one who at his audit firm got contracts because the secretary to the treasury a convicted corrupt person gave him contracts…a man with so little vision he could not accept to deputize and learn something from LPM or indeed his shortime bedfellow MCS, a man who claims he can fix it then embraces a form3 drop out whose only cv was to deliver empty grain to the grz and be paid money he never worked for; a man whose biggest claim in life is that he batters his wife and she loves it a man who went on to watch as his gay dota lost miserably..

  41. ZAMBIA DOES NOT LACK LEADERS. PEOPLE MUST NOT DIE BECAUSE OF LEADERS WHO WANT TO BE IN STATE HOUSE. IF ALL OF THEM CLAIM TO WANT TO SERVE THEN THEY SHOULD ALSO BE WILLING TO BE LED. LEADERSHIP OF A NATION IS NOT A PRESERVE OF A FEW INDIVIDUALS. LEADERS COME AND GO.
    I WOULD DISQUALIFY BOTH HH AND ECL AND THE NEXT TWO WITH THE HIGHEST GO FOR A RE-RUN (SINCE MONEY WAS AVAILABLE FOR A RE-RUN). I KNOW YOU WILL SAY THIS IS SIMPLISTIC. YES THE ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN SIMPLE BUT MADE COMPLICATED BY SELFISH PEOPLE. ONE ZAMBIA ONE NATION

  42. After all those empty trucks they’ve been impouding over the past 2 elections, still, they want premarked ballots… What’s the obsession with premarked ballots? At least this time they are sure the ballots are premarked.

  43. ABUSE OF COURTS “BY THE BOY WHO CRIED LION -HH”
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    1. HH started these unbecoming behaviour well before the election took place 2. 14 days since their first petition is fast running out and they keep bombarding the concourt with more and more snap court orders than necessary 3. Surprisingly the concourt is getting overwhelmed by the UPND petitions 4. I wonder how the head of state is summoned to court without careful consideration of his immunity of course not suggesting that he is guilty of anything…

    • 5. Is Mmembe also trying to fight his battles through this concourt by influencing HH? 6. When HH loses these petitions, can he please lose these cases with costs. This boy who shouted lion is really a thorn in the UPND a.ssS. I hope his little manoeuvres are not only hurting my nerves. His loss was already prejudicial and self-proclaimed going by his false calls that PF was rigging the election from ballot printing venue through to opening of ECZ trucks, violent campaigns counting of ballots. He tried to con students quench his riotous behaviour and threatened national food security. He now questions rejected ballots. This useless cattle herder is now wasting the countries time and man-hours. Dismiss…

    • some of useless petitions with heavy costs to avoid bad precedence from being set. I mean for someone to dispute an election, he needs to fund all those costly tasks he is invoking just like the costs one attracts when contending. I am beginning to loathe HH big time.

    • WE SHALL NOT TOLERATE TAX-PAYERS MONEY TO BE ABUSED BY BLIND UPND DEMANDS!
      ============================================
      At whose cost will the ECZ surrender the ballots to the concourts? Who will be recounting the ballots and who pays them? At whose cost? Tax payers money? Pure daydreaming. Don’t alarm the people. Are these business/con men thinking with their brains or emotions. You petition the election, that is alright but pressing undue pressure on institutions that seem not to be reassuring the nation on what is going on is really on the down low.

  44. CHI HH, TELL US HOW YOU MANAGED 75% TURN OUT OF VOTERS IN 12 HRS, WHEN OTHER AREAS HAD 50% TURN OUT AND NOT ALL VOTERS VOTED IN 12 HRS. I KNOW TONGAS VERY WELL, THEY ARE CROOKS AND VERY BAD HEARTED! TYPICAL OF THEIR PERPETUAL FAILURE HH. HH AND HIS UPND THOUGHT BY RIGGING IN SOUTHERN, WESTERN AND NORTH-WESTERN HE WOULD WIN, BUT YOU CAN NOT FOOL GOD! THESE WILL COME OUT WHEN THE CONSTITUTION COURT SITS. PF HAVE ALL THE EVIDENCE! JUST WAIT, YOUR HH WILL BE SHAMED, AND HE WILL BE ADMITTED IN CHAINAMA!

  45. HH knows that he has planted his cadres at the ConCourt to steal.the materials and destroy evidence. Dont allow the barstado.

  46. Ubupuba bweka bweka. Now goat is fetching cool K900 and village chicken K150 in Lsk. Mwakulalya bakolwe new mbeba mwaumfwa.

  47. All of u who talk tribes are fools ethier u of or upnd u dull and shallow brain’s and by the u poor people bcoz only those with real things talk unprofitable words !tribes in Zambia are old than u fools and have lived together before you Tonga and bemba tribalist u where born!shame on Zambian fools any every family have fools and here in Zambia u are our fools

  48. Ether u pf or upnd if u talk tribe u are a fool bcoz Tonga’s or Bemba’s are our brothers u fool u dull and primitive in this era u feed on foolish simple things anyway any family has fools like u,in short u are our fools in Zambia too!

  49. Stop insulting each other especially tribes am halfcast tonga & bemba why too much insults on this platform please lets love one another respect each other God help us.

  50. Ba kaponya!!! You mean you don’t understand ati people are following the country’s constitution. Why can’t you air heads just wait for the outcome instead of spewing your hate against other people here.

  51. Expired Christian Leader ( ECL) has to go for safety of this country. There is a Constitutional crisis now because of one self person who does not respect Zambians. In the time of one freedom fighter br Sikota Wina, there was , ” A night without a President”. But now it’s nights without a President.

  52. This Kaponya HH never ceases to amaze me, he was bragging that they had overwelming evidence of rigging, the 14000 ballots in a bin, pipo who voted 6 times, the Lundazi votes bla bla bla but all this is not included in the petition, now he wants all the election matrials to be kept by con court, who is going to transport them there from all the districts in zambia and at who’s cost? Instead of going straight into the petition arguments he starts bringing useless preliminary applications.As for his uncivilised cadres in Namwala let them know that they also have thier pipo in regions where PF have control so let them not push their luck too far.

  53. Why are we being held hostage but these people. Is this the ARMAGEDDON you kept talking about. Put another person to lead UPND, maybe you can win. As it stands. Mr. Lungu is President for 5 years. Don’t worry time heals everything. You are very luck you are in ZAMBIA and we are ALL ZAMBIANS. I lived in PAKISTAN for 5 years. By now your EGOS would have been diminished and this nonsense would have come to a terrible end for you Mr. UPND leader and your crew. The citizens would have dealt with you horribly, by the time the court or government comes to your aid. Be thankful to God that us Zambians take time to re-act physically more than we do verbally.

  54. I just imagine why my brothers and sisters in Southern Province do not want to learn a lesson. Look at how HH picked his running mate – GBV. It was totally questionable! Then today they want to say Bembas are what and what. Go to Northern Province we have Tongas and other tribes settled there peacefully and own lodges. What is so fussy about staying in the Tonga land? I personally I have worked there for over 5 years and I own three mansions. One in Livingstone and two in Choma. I want to go and buy more land again in Mazabuka and I won’t fear TAKULI. This one Zambia One Nation. HH please politics is not business or Christain Kantemba for Nevers Mumba – NO. Its people who speak finito! If yoy have failed to win the hearts of people go and settle in Namwala and start farming. We Mbushi we…

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