Hichilema and Mwamba, commonly known as GBM, are expected to take the UPND to the 2021 general elections.
Copperbelt Provincial chairman Elisha Matambo says the party on the Copperbelt had no other person, but Hichilema to endorse as the sole presidential candidate.
UPND is expected to hold its Congress at which all positions will be subjected to elections early next year.
“The Party here on the Copperbelt has endorsed you [Hichilema] as the sole candidate for president at the Party Congress. All other positions are open for contest except yours and that of your running mate GBM,” said Matambo at the UPND card renewal exercise held in Kitwe on Sunday.
Matambo has since called for unity in the party at all levels and encouraged members to intensify mobilization at grassroot level.
He said urged old and new members to tag along as victory is only guaranteed when united.
Meanwhile, UPND Mufulira District secretary Godfrey Kamangu has urged the other nine provinces in the country to emulate the Copperbelt in endorsing Hichilema as the sole presidential candidate at the forthcoming congress and eventually the general elections.
May Africa never return to the era of Kunta-Kinte!
Lybians OUT!
That is the END of UPND
According to Albert Einstein : The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
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Heading should read “UPND On The Copperbelt Declare Hichilema Sole LOSING Candidate For 2021”
On this one mushota I totally agree with you. This is simply insanity. Upnd members have sympathy for hh. The guy is not a winning card for upnd.
Comment: The problem with the UPND is that it does not want to do things a different way from the PF. This issue of sole candidate is one of those things people hate in PF, they are quoting it as if they don’t want to be different from PF. Who can defeat HH in UPND, if they allow others to challenge him, is it not fear for the unknown? UPND can do better if they carefully choose their ways and avoid falling in PF traps.
The problem they have in UPND is that HH is the biggest funder of the party and now joined by GBM. Nobody has the financial muscle to dislodge the now two among the richest Zambians in UPND. So on that basis no one can remove HH from the helm of UPND unless he just voluntarily steps down.
Mistake. HH is Mugabe in zambia. However, if HH is the preferred candidate for UPND 2021, the best u could have done is to go for the elective conference and pronounce his name there. This could have given UPND some political points. This is the reason why some people call you supporters of Tonga UPND party and its Tonga, self appointed president under5. U don’t have political brains. In fact, HH gave you the instructions a couple of days ago when he came to the Copperbelt and you are just announcing following his Tonga instructions. He is surely Mugabe in zambia.
Can’t you debate like @shipi? Why do you always have to be tribal? Is that the only strength you have? Hate, hate speech? Look no one is talking about tribe except you pf cadres, that confirms who the tribalists are.
the MUGABE of zambian politics…never to be challenged. stands in all elections and LOSES every damn time. WAMUYAYAYA
I have UPND colleagues who literary insult PF for endorsing ECL for 2021! My question: why should something be wrong just because it’s done by PF?
We have heard this song before. The next stanza is ‘the elections will be rigged. We won’t accept the results if HH will lose. There will be Armageddon if he loses’. As I said sometime back ‘UPND are in a catch 22 situation. If they went to a convention and HH lost to a none Tonga then the Tongas would have lost a chance for a Tonga President. If on the other hand another Tonga was picked then it will confirm the tribal tag. They can’t risk that. But that is being unrealistic. HH will never win the elections because of the way he ascended to the leadership of UPND to start will. Please wake up to the reality of the situation.
In as far as Tongas are concerned Mwanawasa was a sellout. He split the votes among the Bantubotatwe to make Mazoka lose. MMD was very clever to have picked Mwanawasa or else Mazoka could have won.
Why we still have people WHO question the candidature of HH ? UPND is a POLITICAL party for TONGA PEOPLE ,therefore, as long as HH (Tonga by tribe)lives forget about intra- party DEMOCRACY. ECL , will leave HIM even in 2026.If today , he happen to quit from UPND expect HIS successor to be TONGA nothing less. IF today , HH wins presidential elections, ALL parastatals and CIVIL SERVICE will be FULL OF TONGAS ( the truth of social psychology of Tongas)
You are the kind of people who put good Tongas in bad standing with the rest of society. This is tribalism at its worst! I hope you do not mean these words. I know for a fact that are very good Tongas out there but your unpleasant words are ruining their name
How does it feel hating on people who don’t give a sh#t about what you think about them, i think it is painful like constipation, you have this anger for tongas but you can’t do anything about it. Nice keep piling that hate in your chest dude.
Mr Disciplinarian please don’t blame people who call UPND a tribal party but blame the person who said nobody could take over from Mazoka apart from a Tonga and HH who is a Tonga took over. If one did a research he will find out that three quarters of the The Tongas if not all support that HH should stand In 2021 and less than 50% of UPND members who are not Tonga will be against it.
@Mr. P: and that is the truth everyone wants to conveniently ignore!! Since 1999 when one tonga fellow formed upnd, southern province has never voted for anybody else. Today tonga people are upnd by default. I have many tonga friends and all are upnd. Mwanawasa lost badly in southern in 2001 and 2006!!! That is why the other tribes are not so comfortable with the tongas. 7.1 and 7.2 are in denial but the truth is we live with these people, we work with these people, we socialise with these people-AND WE KNOW HOW DEEP THEIR TRIBALISM RUNS IN THEIR VEINS!!!
Let’s face it, these guys are endorsing Hakainde Hichilema and Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba be cause they know that these two guys are their financial muscles. Without Hakainde funding UPND, its a dead political party!
Haleisa Humugabe.
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I also don’t know why HH fears to go for a convention to be voted for.
It is simple. He has never won and he can never win an election. He probably does not have an er ection
Just like you boss you don’t read, that’s why you signed the Constitution with your eyes closed. The article is clear, they have endorsed him for a party Congress.
Rubbish
I 100% agree with Mr. P. The so called HH and the entire UPND is pursuing a TONGA presidency agenda, for HH he also wants to expand his corruptly acquired business empire, the so called GBM is looking for government contracts once they are mistakenly voted into power. The information is on our finger tips that HH is funded by evil external forces wanting to pounce on our natural resources (minerals). So this evil man HH has already put Zambia on the auction sale for him to get the kickbacks just like he did during privatization. Zambians please wake up and never give this man a chance to rule this beautiful country or else we shall regret up to our graves. HH is not an alternative,God will give us somebody else after PF in 2026
Which god tolerates lying lips like yours? Baal?
@saimbwende which graves are you going to when you have sold all your land to the Chinese and Zimbabwean farmers.
If he can be wamuyayayaya in the party what of at national level with all those powers? be careful Zambians HH mulilo waikatako wapya. Never, never make that mistake Zambia will be finished.
Let hh be their sole candidate, it is their choice.
If HH is going to stand in 2021, then he should face ECL who knows him very well. History will repeat itself as the latter has never lost before. HH has never tested a win even at ward level or within his own party.
u5 will never rule zambia we have been saying this for more than a decade . are thse chaps deaf or just dull.
yes he is popular in upendi because he can sell his denkete animals to zambeef and fund the party but most of dont care. i dont even eat red meat.
ati you are jealous you are jealous. jealous of what.
u5 likes short cuts . he made money through short cuts. he bacame upendi leader through shortcuts. he wants to become rich like dangonte through short cuts
Guinness Book of World Records! Hazaluzah Hagain!
Yaba, so it is true that there is a tribe in Zambia which is as condemned like un.pDonkis?
Nomba nga ba Lesa basenda umulumendo under5 chikaba shani, njebeniko ba Donki? Because the sins that under5 has committed against Zambia he cannot possibly have much longer to live.
If the other guy standing near him took the reigns of power, all Namwalans will form another party! It is a known fact!