Opposition National Democratic Congress leader Chishimba Kambwili has u-turned on the purported reconciliation with President Edgar Lungu saying he was ambushed.
Dr Kambwili told Journalists that there is nothing to reconcile over with President Lungu because he has not been his enemy.
He said the purported reconciliation at St Ignitius Catholic Church came as a surprise to me because he felt ambushed by the Priest.
“I have nothing to reconcile with President Lungu over. He also mentioned in Church that he has nothing personal against me, same for me, I don’t have any personal issues against him,” Dr Kambwili said.
He added,” what we however differ on are fundamental principles around governance. The PF under President Lungu has caused a lot of misery to our people and it’s my job as an opposition leader to highlight those wrongs.”
On Monday during the 5th memorial for Michael President Micheal Sata, Dr Kambwili and President Lungu were called in front of the congregation alongside former first lady Christine Kaseba by parish priest father Charles Chilinda to declare what dispute was between them.
And president lungu said he had nothing against Dr Kambwili and was at peace with him while Dr. Kambwili also said he had nothing against the head of state.
The two shook hands in witness of Dr. Kaseba in front of the congregation as the congregants cheered in delight.
And Father Chilinda has urged the two leaders to put their differences aside and avoid destroying the PF.
Characters who have used government for survival are bitter once removed from the table. So Lungu, as long as he is continues showing weakness of having no ideas to improve the lives of the people economically loud mouths like this Kambwili will grow ever popular even if he is empty himself also. Just like the empty tribalist.
You folks should know CKinsultor by now. He can say a 1000 words in a minute and you begin to wonder what he actually said.
He is the usual running mouth. Take talking out’a CKinsultor you will completely annihilate him.
The listener will have to hear and pay particular to CKinsultor 1000 discrete times to get him. But as they say, actions speak louder than words.
I WONDER WHAT YOU PEOPLE CALL INSULTS. IF I POINT OUT YOUR WRONG DOINGS THAT DOES NOT AMOUNT TO INSULTS. LUNGU IS JUST TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT HIS GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES WHICH HAVE DESTROYED THE COUNTRY AND CADRES CALL THAT INSULTS.
Ba LT, grow up in your reporting and phrasing of the Queen’s language. There is no U turn at all in what I have heard from CK’s mouth. CK was not going the direction you perceive he was, he has just stated the truth which all of you may find yourselves experiencing one day or the other or may already have found yourselves in. You can hate the conduct of a person and not a person himself, but those seeing you from a distance may have their own speculations or wrong conclusions. That means you may have nothing against an individual but have everything against his conduct.
Politics of the belly….Kambwili is busy negotiating his “terms of service ” once he rejoins PF……Kambwili knows that he cant survive outside Politics and in opposition….he is crawling back to the table so that he can start eating again with his fellow PF bandits
Lusaka Times now you’ve become worse than Zambian watchdog…your headline and article don’t correspond……learn to separate facts from hallucinations…you twisting the story in a very amateur way…and like I said Kambwili is vying for PF top job after Lungu is done and thats what they’re working on now…..so Kambwili will help Lungu rig the 2021 elections and Kambwili will take over after that….as simple as that and this will spell doom for HH’s political career
The Priest was wrong, in fact his acts are treasonable. He misused Ba Edgar to earn himself some mileage. Chilinda must repent, it was wrong act, and worse he was praising himself that he advice Ba Sata to reconcile with Mwanawasa.
Ba Fr. Chilinda please go for confession…
I listened to the the preaching of the young priest. Several times he overstepped his boundaries. He acted like he addressing a PF rally. He presented it like there were no opposition parties at the Service that PF was destined to rule for ever,. I was shocked……..
if kambwili has moved on from pf , let him learn to avoid compromising situations like what happened at st ignitius parish, situations like these are slowly turning him into a lukewarm poli-trickian , if he had the mind of joseph from the bible, the best time to flee madam potiphers bedroom was on independence day, this will soon turn into a temptation he will fail to run away from, run like joseph and history will atleast judge you as one repented soul.
Hazaluza HAgain Hambushed Hasmall leopard at the Farm – NAMWALA farm.
He is right. You dont reconcile when you meet each other at a corner. You have to have the motive to reconcile before meeting with your enemy. The way the priest did it was certainly an ambush of both Lungu and Kambwili who were forced to say something because they were standing publicly before a priest.
Kambwili is just confirming that he lied in church. He claimed before god that he has nothing against ECL when everybody can see that he, Kambwili, is a bitter, fat man who envies ECL everyday.
Headline is misleading
Lungu appears to be sweating at this occasion. Fear temunobe! What more if it was Trump?
Trump is of satan, you idiiots need to stop treating white peeps like they are angels. Remember who killed Jesus ( a black man ) our Lord and savior. Your white people. President Lungu is a man that does not hold a grudge. It is unfortunate that he had to deal with Sata’s and RB’s minions in the first part of his presidency. Chishimba Kambwili is one of the ministers President Sata referred to as dull. Zambians can help the nation by asking the president to replace some of his nonsense ministers like Jean Kapata.
wanzelu May 4, 2017
Kambwili is on Lungu ‘s hit list for posing a threat to Lungu ‘s presidential ambitions to rule forever.
All his accidents have the hall marks of Zim mugabe style of clean elimination. The fact that a car rammed into vehicle shows that Lungu ‘s men under Kaiser’s supervision want Kambwili out .
Kambwili is also to blame for his misery thats why some of us have little sympathy to his situation. When he was PF info minister he spewed a lot of rubbish against HH.
I can imagine what he would have said about HH ‘s case if he was still info minister!
I have constantly warned PF stooges like Mmmembe including Kaiser that propping up a dictator has very short lived benefits because a dictator can suddenly change against you when his fear of being overthrown or killed by…
How can you trust these characters to lead the nation. Abused by gun point or a word of mouth? Boss just come clean and confess that you are a PF underdog
I watched and listened to Kambwili last night on Prime TV’s oxygen of democracy. He explained well his purported ‘reconciliation’ with the President but we are yet to see what will unfold as time elapses
Kambwili is a coward and now wants to play to the gallery hoping to please the Supreme leader HH of the UPND…He wants to eat with both hands as late President Sata would put it…
My whlte wlfe is officially the most beautiful woman to ever step foot in Zambia. This is according to a poll carried out by mtv Africa
hahahaha
BOSS I LIKE THE WAY YOU PRAISE YOUR WIFE. ZAMBIAN MEN LEARN FROM THIS…
@ N.e.e,.z(u.p.n.d strategist)
NUTTTTTT !
Their reconciliation will be bad for the country. ECL will again act as he pleases since the strong voice to restrain him will be termed. Findlay now knows his boundary because of one CK
The people who do not want CK to reconcile with ECL are those who want to use him to help split the vote in PF strongholds during 2021 elections. These people are pretenders and simply want to use him. But some of us we are peace makers feel for CK’s health and the cases he is facing, we would rather see him reconcile and live happily. Otherwise the Ball’s in his court.
There is definitely nothing wrong with wanting this stup!d PF out of power mune. It is an !d!otic party with the dullest president in the history of the world so yes we do not want these two to reconcile if it will ensure PF is relegated to the garbage dump where it belongs.
Poor Sunday Chanda, after releasing a rambling statement lauding the two for reconciling. Is PF that desperate they are pleading with CK to rejoin?
CK SHOULD NEVER EVER THINK OF REJOINING PF BECOZ THAT WILL BE THE END OF HIS POLITICAL CAREER. AS FAR AS IT STANDS HE HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF BECOMING PRESIDENT UNDER NDC IF HE REMAINS INTACT AND CONSISTENT
Spineless politicians like Kambwili can never be trusted. He is just a loud mouth, an unprincipled attention seeker who would cower down like a puppy at the slightest real challenge and plead for forgiveness. Back in front of his peers, the overgrown baby will never confess that he begged for mercy. He’ll create his own spiced imaginary version of what transpired to maintain his fake position/rank among the gullible admirers.
CK should never even think of rejoining PF , that will be end of ck…
We know lungus quid pro quo system of silencing and forcing people to campaign for him, the politico corruption cases against ck will only be revived near 2021, all the other accused of corruption, soko, Chimesa, fingers of Chita have all been informed that they have to campaign for lungu or else……even the ministers who were told to pay back money by the courts were trapped by lungu to receive that money so they are tied to him for life……
It’s not up to us to decide what you should do in your politics but our concern is the lack of civility in your discourse. Please moderate your language, you don’t have to be vulgar to drive your point. Most Zambian politicians have no morality, even these stage-managed reconciliations will be rife as we head into 2021. Should indicators be in favor of PF, I see Kambwili going back on what he has said. He has a small brain
As Alangizi Ba Chitukuko we need to see people coming together and put a smile to each other politics aside. We only have one Zambia and we are one people created by one God therefore, “The aftermath of non violence is reconciliation, and the aftermath of violence are emptiness and bitterness.
The people condemning CK over reconciliation with ECL are those in HH.s camp they know that once ck stands on NDC ticket he will split the votes in the northern , luapula and Copperbelt perceived to be PF strong holds and they know that southerners votes for hh are still intact which may give advantage to HH to go to plot one so PF must work very hard and the onus is on Kambwali . its impossible for Kambwali to win on NDC ticket but to spoil the votes for Pf but what he shouldn’t forget that if this Tonga man wins and his cases are not disposed off immediately he may go in . but that strategy has already been taken care of hh will not win 2021 we shall campaign vigorously with GBM and DR canissius Banda so ck wont have it easy as he doesn’t have resources . currently he is limping on…
CK, GBM is waiting for you in the
‘used’ corner of PF. Don’t worry, you won’t be lonely.
Fake news.CK as done it with ECL and fools are there to condemn,iweee ni problem nishi wakwata.We know the strategy you are using ”propaganda”,falsehood mmmmm ni wala tata fingi ku farm.CK maintain it, very soon after 2021 you are the next President believe me you.
It was an ‘ambush’ ochestrated by a politically compromised bootlicking priest. But nonethe less, true thinking Zambians should not waste time on these two characters, now or in the future. They both belong to the political scrap heap – we just haven’t gotten to getting rid of the one in power yet.
If in the eyes of some, these two leaders represent the highest summit of Zambian political acumen, those eyes need to be ‘plucked’ out.
Phew! What a relief. It was going to become boring all of a sudden! Awe mwe! It’s like Trump suddenly saying Obama is the best President ever…
If it’s really true that he U-turned, he would be lying to himself and not us because he raised his hand and shaked His Excellency’s hand in The Lord’s house and the world. He wouldn’t if he really felt he was ambushed.
Peace and Reconciliation are fundamental necessitives for a country to move forward. His Excellency Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu openly said he holds no grudge against no other party leader. That’s ehat good leaders do no matter what He/She has been told or attacked.
But all in all, the reconciliation between the two in the eyes of The Lord just might be what this country needs if we have to develop as One Zambia One Nation, and this should be a lesson to other opposition parties because at the end of it all, we still have Government of the day which needs all our…
I am still shocked at how the PF were able to squeeze GBM but have failed to squueze Kambwili.
What really happened there touched our hearts and we were humbled to the words that where spoken. If you`re not touched then you`re not human. We thank GOD that Kambwili reconciled with our Excellence Dr Edgar Lungu.
The Government of the day has a big heart and it does not care about what social media says all it cares about is what is right in the eyes of our LORD. You people you cannot destroy GOD`s hand. Patali! Elo mukalanda mukanaka.
Have Peace and Harmony.
useless priest
The photos illustrate that Ba Kambwili was not forced or dragged towards President Lungu. This was a solemn occasion to commemorate the Late President Sata. Whoever attends such functions is expected to humble oneself by locating and mingle with the people in Church or Burial site. But Ba Kambwili opted to locate himself close to the high tables. Apparently, what drives HH’s mindset that prompts him to be absent from such solemn national occasions. Food for thought for UPND followers who must read his true mind.
God knows whose heart habours hatred in it’s darkest recess.
Saying one thing among the brethren and then turning around saying you did not mean it (I had my fingers crossed behind my back), is sinful and ultimately Kambwili has no respect for God Almighty to drop his attempt at power play for state house.
And the two priests put it as if Sata forgave Levy when it should be the other way round really. We all know that Levy’s crime to Sata was to become President instead of him. So what is there for Levy to apologise when WE Zambians elected him? Didn’t Levy do the ultimate forgiving to Sata by sending him to medical treatment abroad? And we also ALL know that Sata was the offender, the insultor catholic as he was! Doesn’t Father Chilinda know that Sata insulted a fellow human being by calling him a “cabbage”. It was therefore only right that before passing on ba Sata apologised to Levy, it was not the other way round, Father Chilinda!
if the election is to be held today, CK is likely to get 15% of the total votes, and the graph is increasing trajectory.by next year december the graph may reach 35% which can be bad signal to the current administration.only option is to beg imbwili
The only surprise in this whole drama is the so-called catholic priest who seems to be completely confused about his role in Zambian politics. Clearly, he is a cadre of one political party.
CK LOBE IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP BWANA