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UPND will not cry over the constitutional Court judgement, but focus on mobilisation

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UPND Deputy General Secretary Patrick Mucheleka and Chairman for Agriculture Levy Ngoma unveiling Dr Banda at the UPND secretariat
UPND Deputy General Secretary Patrick Mucheleka and Chairman for Agriculture Levy Ngoma unveiling Dr Banda at the UPND secretariat

The United Party for National Development says it reluctantly accepts the Constitutional court ruling which overturned the nullification of the Lusaka Central Seat by the Lusaka High Court.

The Constitutional Court yesterday ruled that Margaret Mwanakatwe was duly elected as Lusaka Central Member of Parliament overturning the High Court decision to nullify the election the election of Mrs. Mwanakatwe.

Judge Annie Sitali in delivering judgement said most of the allegations leveled against Mrs. Mwanakatwe by UPND losing candidate Mrs. Charlotte Scott lacked merit to warrant the nullification of the seat.

Party Deputy Secretary General Patrick Mucheleka said the judgement on the matter by the Constitutional Court has taken unexpectedly long thereby denying Mrs. Scott Justice.

Mr. Mucheleka however said the party will not cry over the judgement but forge ahead and continue mobilising its structures.

Meanwhile, Mr. Mucheleka said the UPND did not agree in the Board meeting with the resolution to appointment four eminent citizens to lead the Political dialogue.

He said although the party has a lot of respect for the iminent persons appointed to lead the process, it is not in agreement with ZCID chairing the process because they do not have capacity to manage the process.

Mr. Mucheleka has maintained that the dialogue process should be led by the three Church Mother Bodies who voiced out on the arrest of Mr. Hichilema when the ZCID was quiet.

He said UPND is however committed to the dialogue process as it is good for both UPND and PF.

And Mr. Mucheleka said the UPND has confidence in the Electoral Commission of Zambia saying it requires a lot of electoral reforms.

He was speaking when he featured on the Hot Seat Programme.

29 COMMENTS

  1. Politics of cynicism in UPND. Critically speaking, I see a lot of confusion on in the opposition. They dont know whether they are coming or going. In one breath the UPND leader believes the the Electoral Commission of Zambia has no credibility and in another breath his subordinate says the opposite. Where is the coherence? God have mercy on these jokers.

  2. I really pit you Mr Mucheleka because in your party, only one man can speak the final words. HH always opposes anything so don’t be quick to admit defeat. We will only believe your words after HH has spoken.

  3. It’s a known fact that charlotte Scott lost her parliamentary seat elections in 2016.Even GBM’s sister Dorothy lost in Munali constituency.Its just in UPND to propel CONFUSIONS in the country.Even HH lost in Lusaka, this is a known fact and it’s on record.

    • The denial and failure to concede and believe in reality and the destruction this party has carried out in Zambia will be a stain that will be hard to remove. If all Zambian politicians including KK who relinquished power peacefully had been acting like HICHILEMA MENTAL, Zambia could not have had the respect it is accorded worldwide. I hope that this may be true for this organisation because as far as I see things, you stand to be declared irrelevant with the little god of yours at the helm of your organisation.

  4. “Mr. Mucheleka has maintained that the dialogue process should be led by the three Church Mother Bodies who voiced out on the arrest of Mr. Hichilema when the ZCID was quiet.”

    The church mother bodies represent God on matters of well being of his potential children, even ones that have dabbled in satanism. The ZCID is a political resolution tool, that ensures political dialogue is prudently crisp. Now let us move on.

  5. The Church should not involve itself in the affairs of Men, that agenda belongs to Satan according to our Lord Jesus Christ. So we shall know them by their fruit.

    Matthew 16:23

    23 But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

  6. The UPND have finally realized that courts will never help them because judges all fear for their jobs. You need strong willed judges like those in Kenya if you are going to go to court over election disputes.

  7. WAY TO GO!! Let this be the realization that there are systems and institutions put in place for our governance and we can only respect the leadership of a party when it exhibits rational behavior. THIS ADMISSION OF LOSS and “PICKING UP PIECES TO MOVE ON ” is much more useful to UPND and the country than what they did after the Presidential petition. WE HOPE THEY SAY THE SAME ON THE PRESIDENTIAL PETITION WHICH SOME OF THEIR SUPPORTERS STILL KEEP SAYING IT MUST BE HEARD WHEN IT WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE AND WE ARE COUNTING 2 YEARS BEFORE ANOTHER ELECTION!! Please MOVE ON and REORGANIZE YOURSELVES!!

  8. How can such chaps like Mucheleka be leaders when he can not even look after his mother who him and wife set away from his home and put on the bus to kasama. His brothers are just eating grass, because he misused his mothers money which got after saving 25 years in the teaching service . Look first wife, she is just eating grass too .Useless chaps

  9. There is nothing to dialogue. ECL won and HH lost and we need to move on and do some work until the next elections in 2021. I do not know why people are entertaining time wasters.

  10. The church solution is on the kneels in prayer not dialogue to reconcile worldly systems. It’s apity that the church is trying to impose itself o something that is not its main mission. when the church sees a mistake or injustice they have a voice to rebuke and correct. And I believe they have done so when HH was unjustly put in prison for 104 days for a silly mistake he made which he was also condemned by the church. I remember the church spoing with one voice is rebuking ECL over the arrest that what the church is here not the dialogue. The church is a prophetic voice of God not man’s wisdom and reason or calibre to chair political dialogue. I sup port the ideal of father chililabombwe of inviting HH and ECL to his parish so that he can remind them on what God expect of them not to…

  11. After elections when we narrowly lost to PF I called for a quick soul search. I urged fellow members to accept the ‘defeat’ painful but I was called ‘Janjaweed’ amongst other unkind words. I spoke against wasting our time in court and moving around with papers that only went to pay off lawyers…in the end we lost ground battered in by elections etc. We boycotted national events and Adolf in a moment of insanity ended up in prison…his home violated…the party has been rocking because we are not focused…and now look at this turn around things I spoke to and instead I was vilified…lets go to the drawing board its not too late please…

  12. This Patrick Mucheleka comes across as mentally retarded, but then maybe it is because he is in a party of mentally deranged trib.alists. As they say, “……otherwise people will not notice the difference.”

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