The opposition UPND has attributed the huge apathy of 66 percent of the registered voters in Kaoma in yesterday’s Council Chairperson by-election to the huge PF appetite to rig the election.
Party Secretary-General Stephen Katuka said people did not turn out because they were boycotting the PF failed leadership, brutality, and Dracula type bloodsucking murderers.
Below is a full statement.
ANALYSIS OF KAOMA BY ELECTIONS
Lusaka_11th October 2019- Kaoma District of Western Province has 47,789 voters. Kaoma district houses two constituencies namely, Kaoma Central and Mangango constituencies.
Both Kaoma Central and Mangango Constituencies have 66 polling stations in total and 87 polling streams.
The election results in the Kaoma by-election are as follows :
UPND – 7801
PF – 7649
UPPZ – 431
Rejected votes – 193
Votes cast – 16074 representing 34%
Number of registered voters -47,789
The number of voters who did not participate – 31,715 representing 66%.
The reason for this huge apathy of 66% of the registered voters who did not turn out is that they are boycotting the PF failed leadership, brutality and Dracula type bloodsucking murderers.
PF also went into Kaoma with mealie meal, meat bicycles and motorbikes for bribing voters.
Edgar Lungu further went to abuse government resources by taking with him a delegation of over 300 people from Lusaka.
A Zambia Army bus was used to ferry cadres which for us amounts to abuse of public office.
A Zambia Air force Helicopter flew over UPND rally , an act which amounts to provocation.
Unfortunately, all this happened in full view of the compromised Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ).
It is shameful that ECZ failed to disqualify PF from participating even after they continued terrorising villagers with fire arms, machetes and stones .
PF’s Killing of our supporter was not enough,gun shots continued as late as the midnight of 10th October 2019.
It is not a secret that PF wanted to capitalize on apathy in order to rig elections.
The understanding is that rigging operates on low voter turn out .
When the voter turn out is high, it is difficult to rig.
Moving forward, if the electorate continue to stay away from voting , they will be endorsing the hunger situation to continue.
If they stay away from voting, they are also saying the electricity load shedding , delayed salaries for civil servants, high mealie meal prices, high electricity tariffs, high price of fuel and more problems generally should continue.
We therefore call upon all Zambians to turn up in big numbers in all the elections to come.
Issued by :
Stephen Katuka
UPND Secretary General
Useless analysis! Just brace yourself for a rude awakening in 2021. PF has really made huge inroads into your bedrooms
Just admit that you have lost again, big time especially after:
1. Intimidating the UPND voters from voting ( one way PF rigs)
2. Using rigged state machinery including the state house.
PF is the biggest loser. Its like Goliath losing to David.
Extremely d.u.l.l narrative.
Obviously didn’t go as planned.
People should be busy with how to tackle climate change and it’s effect on their food basket than chosing Katuka’s p.i.m.p.s who will be stopped from working with Government.
That is alot of complaining….
Just like in soccer narrow margin wins really hurt, and opponents usually resort to MORPHINE DOSAGE POLITICS to easy the pain.
Remember not long ago upnd lost a paliamentary seat to pf in the kaoma district to specific mangango constituency, but for a council chairman it was a combination of kaoma central and mangango constituencies, so why can people that congratulate the winners in peace and tranquility.
2016 election results: UPND 18,375 PF 5,193..Now Katuka’s party goes down to 7,801 while Pf goes up to 7,649. So which party is causing apathy? The party which has attracted more voters or the party that has much less voters than three years ago?
H-angry Hearts H-ugly Hearts.
Dagga, Chamba, Dobo, Mbanje and Marijuana….. Political Analysis !!
No amount of medical treatment will make Steven Katuka become +Wise or a +Think-Tank. The sad part is that his type are suppose to be the brainstorms of UPND. Therefore, what chance does HH have to get the keys to Statehouse.
It maybe the reason why HH singularly handles all important decision in UPND
100% true article. PF are the biggest losers because most of UPND voters did not vote having been intimidated by PF as part of their many rigging schemes.PF are also the biggest losers because even with a rigged state machinery including state house at their unlawful disposal, they still lost. A loss is a loss. Its like Goliath losing to David.
Apathy is normal in all parts of the country vis bye elections and the likes. People could be busy cultivating their lands seeing that Government has already dispatched farming input.
How d.u.l.l can Katuka be to blame the ruling part for apathy? Someone has already named Councip Chairperson elections as insignificant.
I am only suprised that todate there seems to no apathy in SP were even dead people cast votes.
Katuka is spot on
To lose any election as a government in any part of the country, with all the means of rigging at your disposal, must be worrying. Ask the late Robert Mugabe. Katuka is very right.
Sometimes its good to say thank you to the voters and move on 2021 is not far get down to work
The cause of all this nonsense is the Judas chap who for 30 pieces of Silver decided to betray the people that voted him into office! The bl00d of the slain is on your head! Zambians are fatigued with unending electioneering! No wonder we are broke as a country because we are indisciplined when it comes to expenditure. The heavy police presence in rural areas whenever there are elections scares off our people from participating freely in the electoral process!
However, those in power must also understand that they cannot override the will of people with guns! Those who have lived through the changes of government we have been through understand that Zambians are not to play with when they say enough is enough! All m0nkey rigging tricks don’t work when people are decided! Micah 6:8 Says…
Every time you complain, good or bad,this is a spirit of a beast,satanist,unthankful,who can’t appreciate.Be thankful you stubborn unrealistic tribal people.
To be thankful for what?
A failed state?
Are you suffering from Delusions of achievement? Substandard roads is not development! Ichalo Bantu! Ichalo tefikulwa iyo!
The only achievement PF has made is to take Zambia backwards as per their prophecy of Dununa Regret!
Hollow Horn is an agent of south African Boers, a conduit and facilitator of dwindling Zambians. What is BOZ and the PIA doing to stop money laundering and transfer pricing by hollow horn called HH owned companies in financial sector?
DJ KHALID would say: ANOTHER ONE!!!!!!!
Another opposition victory.
Look at the gap, watch out te game yafitala it is only less than 200 difference.
non.sense !!! you can cheat dull people that you will end load shedding, reduce mealie meal prices bra bra bra. Who does not know that UPND thrives and cherishes the capitalist economic model? As capitalists you are ready to increase prices of all commodities and even to scrap off the social cash transfer to the poorest of the poor of this country….hence Zambians should brace themselves for horrible and very difficult economic situation under your rule. Your main theme will be to raise money to give back your capitalist-funders. So stop lying you UPND.
Insofar it is the capitalist countries which are major donors. Your socialist/communist friends are only giving you loans at LIBOR + 6%.
No wonder it an upAndOWN tripartite bantustans because of such advisors like this sg! Is this really a victory one should tame a time changer! Why do you like hiding your heads in the sand and you boast you are hidden and can’t be seen. As for intimidating voters, upAndOWN is the engineer of this and it is thier style. Please, apf, know thier tricks and expose them. This is where apf is very behind. Sell your achievements on ZNBC instead of glorifying one person. Apf has really done in 8years. They followed the first MMD government initiated in the 1990s, though later was derailed by fat john!!UpAndoWN wants to use violence in order to win re-voting through petitions, but they failed in the last national elections where they bundled and killed non-members of their tripartite…
I have to say this.
Load shedding
Hunger in the countryside
Massive corruption
Salaries are not being paid
Politicians are stealing with impunity
Findlay and ECL are partner’s in drug dealings.
And we (stupid) zambians will vote for the dogs despite all of the above.
As for me and my family, I got a good paying job overseas and I’m leaving for a better future free from ECL and PF dogs
Good luck zambians
11..John you are a fo.ol like your hh
As we are reflecting on the independence day and the day of national prayers and fasting, let us forgive one another and respect our leaders God gave us, name calling and bad comments will not take this country forward, the need to give respect to the current leadership. Politics of frustration will not attract a mature person to understand what you’re taking about. The people who vote are just quiet and never insult.
Here on Earth it is very difficult for some people to appreaciate any good work you may do , they only do so when you die. We can not get supprise even Jesus the son of God was not appreciated at all still the man kind still not appreaciate the weather provides to us, when it is hot we complain, when it is cold, when its raining the same. It takes God to forgive…
As we are reflecting on the independence day and the day of national prayers and fasting, let us forgive one another and respect our leaders God gave us, name calling and bad comments will not take this country forward, the need to give respect to the current leadership. Politics of frustration will not attract a mature person to understand what you’re taking about. The people who vote are just quiet and never insult.
Here on Earth it is very difficult for some people to appreaciate any good work you may do , they only do so when you die. We can not get supprise even Jesus the son of God was not appreciated at all still the man kind still not appreaciate the weather provides to us, when it is hot we complain, when it is cold, when its raining the same.God forgive…
@john work hard the Bible says God will bless the works of your hands.
pf trusted the defectors whom they thought were going to vote for pf, but weeee it was the opposite of all things despite the apathy recorded.watch out, people are not longer interested in lies. well dome kaoma people.
Boring this Katuka.
Let’s hear some other empty stuff from Trible HH. He predicted that voters would overwhelmingly vote for Trible UPND as a way of showing PF that it was time for change. Not sure that such a narrow margin vindicates him.
Also as per Trible HH tradition, the narrow margin should prompt the PF to do an election petition for possible rigging by Trible UPND.
Katuka finding excuses for what he knows is not encouraging. Come 2021, expect the same narrative.
Compare the analysis of Davies Mwila and this one by Steven Katuka, both SGs for the two biggest parties in Zambia today. It’s very clear that one has no strategy for success as he has overseen numerous failures at the ballot and continues to mislead his president while the other is seeing an upswing in fortunes in the opposition strongholds. Kainde should have replaced these dinosaurs with more vibrant advisors and political players. But we know him, he is popular because of the tribal card…
No comment from Trible HH, is it true that he has gone into hiding outside the country? For fear of arrest after his inflammatory statement inciting violence.
Now such cowardice is equivalent to defecting from your own party, since he will not be there to campaign for them or celebrate the victory which boring Katuka is talking about.
By the way, the sight of this Katuka, same as the sight of chieftainness Mukuni, or or maybe that is how those who sleep at the graveyard look, as Mukuni himself said.
Where is your friend Chimbwili? I did not see him campaigning alongside his “alliance” partner Trible HH in Kaoma. By the way does the alliance still exist? Where is Patrick Mucheleka?