Over 200 UPND members in Mangango constituency in Kaoma district of Western province have defected to join the ruling Patriotic Front.
Receiving the defectors, Mangango constituency Campaign Manager, Paul Moonga said the Patriotic Front party is gaining ground in all the UPND strong holds in the province.
Mr Moonga said this yesterday at Lukute Primary School grounds where he was drumming up support for PF’s Godwin Putu in Mangango constituency parliamentary by-election slated for November 20, this year.
The campaign manager said PF is eager to win the constituency with a land slide victory owing to the massive developmental programmes that the government under the leadership of President Edgar Lungu has done in the constituency.
Mr Moonga also said the constituency is witnessing violence free campaigns and has called on all opposition political parties participating in Mangango parliamentary by-election to observe the electoral code of conduct in order avoid coming into conflict with the law.
He said President Lungu has continuously preached about the importance of maintaining peace and tranquility which has resulted in all PF members being good students of the President’s words.
And one of the defectors, Richard Simbula said the defections of many UPND members in Mangango constituency is because of the sound policies that the government has put in place such as the social cash transfer and the farmer input support programme among other many developmental projects.
Mr Simbula said that there are no benefits of staying in the opposition UPND party as its leader Hakainde Hichilema has failed to deliver meaningful development in the locality despite having more wealth that is not benefitting the poor people in the constituency.
He said PF has shown willingness and it is fulfilling its pro – poor policies of not leaving anyone behind in its developmental agenda.
And Western province PF chairperson Charles Mututwa said the government has provided more than 10 television sets in all wards of Mangango constituency and seven communication towers to ensure that people accessed ZNBC channels and also to receive mobile services being offered by MTN, ZAMTEL and AIRTEL at the door steps of their homes.
Mr Mututwa alleged that UPND has become a complainant party in the country of the accusing the ruling Patriotic Front for stealing their votes instead of delivering to the expectations of the electorates.
Mangango constituency is being contested by Godwin Putu under the PF ticket, Mwendoi Akakandelwa for UPND, NDC’s Yuvwenu Kashandola and UPPZ’s Kambinda Liwoyo.
Mangango constituency in Kaoma district fell vacant following the death of UPND Member of Parliament Naluwa Mwene who was involved in a road traffic accident along Lusaka – Kaoma road.
Social cash transfer …
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Check their bank balances and shoes, it tell you everything.
May the best party win.
No rigging and leakage.
I can smell an upnd loss. We have no credible opposition. It’s true that upnd is now a complainant party. They’re very far from winning any election at the moment.
How much tax payers money did you spend on buying 200 people ?
Buying members is a strategy in politics and is practiced everywhere. Buying off not necessarily go with money. There are a lot of things involved. Even UPND does. It’s the name of health and game
It defeats balanced democracy. Anyway it’s a free market so you can’t tell anyone which shop they should shop from
While the social media “voters” insult ECL and PF daily, the reality is upnd is bleeding. The campaign to discredit PF/ECL has failed. Even the boycotting of every national event has just convinced the population that upnd really has no strategy and agenda for this county. The reality is Zambia has no opposition and this has given the ruling party a huge advantage to dominate politics. Had we a scenario where the opposition is outperforms the ruling party on policy, effectively engages the electorate at constituency level, our democracy would be intact.
Tying your opponent’s shoe laces in boxing match is a true definition of cowardice.
Even your children know that your economical with the truth. If MMD had also stopped you from gathering freely like you are doing, you would have been history by now.
I doubt that. When Mazoka and Sata set out to campaign or do their politics, people paid attention and supported because the had SUBSTANCE, simple!! Today we have hh, Kambwili etc who just want to misbehave and talk lies and rubbish-that’s why they are losing momentum as they are failing to inspire. It has nothing with stopping anyone from doing their politics but it’s all to do with a useless opposition!!!
“We will arrest Lungu and sort out the PF members ” That’s all I hear from the Upnd members at my local club.. I don’t know whether this can help win voters.
How much did u pay the poor people, remember the vote is secret
PF main strategy, make the people too poor, not only will they lose their human dignity but even the ability to reason once you dangle a week’s food ration. Such type of leadership philosophy to manipulate people is anti-christ and dictatorial.
Ubututu,so this people doesn’t know that PF is a party of thieves. we
Comment:if pf managed to buy the UPND members, then UPND is also full of corrupted members, ready to do anything for money.. never trust a politician..
No real opposition to PF apart from itself.
Defecting is not development, as it does not add any value to the economy of the nation. Scientifically its like the law of matter.
If MMD where so good and had allowed the opposition to campaign freely then why did the oldest party UPND among those that were yet to rule fail to win……
Ba Mangango nayonayo 200 is not a number to be worried about, it is just a result of hunger in homes. Among all the developmental programmes you only dream of a failed social cash transfer where your grando was getting as little as K90.00 in 3 months. We are waiting for election results. It Mangango mourns, Zambia mourns. Prayer and fasting is failing to give us business opportunities and employment.