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Edgar Lungu urges PF members in Southern province to explain the government’s success

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President Edgar Chagwa Lungu (centre) accompanied by Northern Province Minister Bwalya Chungu (left) and Kasama Member of Parliament Kelvin Sampa (right) at Kasama Airport in
President Edgar Chagwa Lungu (centre) accompanied by Northern Province Minister Bwalya Chungu (left) and Kasama Member of Parliament Kelvin Sampa (right) at Kasama Airport in Northern Province on Tuesday,

President Edgar Lungu has urged Patriotic Front members in Southern province to explain the government’s success to the people.

President Lungu says there is so much false information being disseminated by the opposition that PF members should counter with the truth.

He says PF members should help in explaining the contents of Bill 10 so as to correct the misinformation that some political parties and civil organizations are spreading.

The Head of State says it is also not true that his administration does NOT want to work with the people from the region, saying he has on several occasions appointed people from the southern province who he says turned down the offers citing threats.

President Lungu has since urged the mobilization team to start the mobilization process in Southern province.

The President said this in Livingstone yesterday, in a meeting with PF Members from Kazungula, Kalomo, Livingstone and Zimba districts.

And, PF Vice Chairperson for National Mobilization, Geoffrey Mwamba, says his team will make inroads in Southern province.

Mr. Mwamba, who pledged his total loyalty to President LUNGU, has however appealed to all PF members in the region to get involved in recruiting new members.

After the meeting, Mr. Mwamba told journalists that over 600 people have defected from UPND to join the PF in Livingstone.

 

And while in Choma, President Edgar Lungu challenged Patriotic Front members in the Southern Province to produce more Members of Parliament in the 2021 general election.

Addressing PF members in Choma yesterday, President Lungu said there is NO reason why the governing party should NOT have MPs in the Southern Province when it has taken development to the area.

President Lungu urged the PF in the province to immediately start identifying potential MPs and start mobilizing ahead of the 2021 General Election.

He said the success of any political grouping depends on numbers and that the late President Michael Sata managed to grow the party by inviting more people to join the PF.

President Lungu said the opposition United Party for National Development-UPND will never rule Zambia if its members continue thinking that one region can make them form government.

He said not a single tribe in Zambia can win elections on its own.

President Lungu wondered why the opposition UPND has continued fielding a presidential candidate, who has broken the record of losing the highest number of elections in the country.

And newly-appointed PF National Vice Chairperson for Mobilization Geoffrey Mwamba has thanked President Lungu and the Central Committee for the appointment.

Mr. MWAMBA said he is ready for the task ahead and that he has already started mobilizing with close to three hundred UPND cadres defecting to the ruling PF in Monze and Choma districts in the last two days.

 

21 COMMENTS

    • You do not have a single Cabinet Minister from Southern and you expect southerners to be kind to you? You had a chance to to nominate one or two but don’t. You are the worst tribalist and you are kissing goodbye to State house in 2021. Viva HH our only hope for Zambia.

    • I have been to several pf rallies, one thing that strikes my mind is that, 60% of their message is HH,40% is parte after parte songs and dancing, how do you cadres have the knowledge and skill to explain whatever you doing.? Even if a pf cadres comes to me and brags about the roads, my simple question to him will be how much is spent to construct a kilometer compared to our neighboring countries? How about if I ask him why pensioners have not been paid, so many questions from me will make your cadres , just do what they know best Make a Fist and go physical.

    • Let’s be frank here, how many here have seen or heard him on any platform, sit and have a one on one talk with Zambians about the economy?

      One man told me that, in any organization, society or group, followers will tend to also assume their leaders traits, I have tried to study this phenomenon and I have discovered that it almost 100% true. I took time to do a study on pastors and followers. One thing that struck my mind is that the junior pastors and flock literary want to not only behave like their leaders but even go to the extent of trying to shape the physical appearance like their leader, a clear example is TB Joshua, politically its also the same.

    • The hard working government and the president. I hope those who think bloodline first and issue second will listen! Mr. President it is very hard to take a horse to the river and force it to drink!

  1. The message is all wrong, if there is any success, it need not be explained. Any fool can see it with their naked eyes. Just like we are able to see load shedding, high mealie meal prices, exchange rate, tribalism, etc.

  2. We can’t trust our president’s law acumen, last time he forced cabinet to remain in office after parliament dissolution, against the same constituency he swore to protect!

    Now he has sponsored its mutilation so as to keep the party and the lack of vision leaders in power!

    The best he could do at this point is listen and implement people’s wishes given that he is in that office to work for the people not to play lack of vision and humble!!

    • I feel sorry for Lungu his own cadres especially the senior ones are saying he must go,they are afraid of the consequences of looting,meanwhile the rogues,hyenas and vultures whim he has kept close to him are misleading him because like them they have no Vision and cant smell the coffee they are praying that he wins,this is a disaster waiting to happen….

  3. EXPLAIN WHAT ?????????? NO DOUBT THE EXPLAINING WILL BE DONE WITH A BAG OF MIELIE MEAL AND SOME KWACHA………….WILL THEY BE EXPLAINING HOW THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT SUNK ZAMBIA INTO A PIT OF NO RETURN WHILE THEY ARE IN POWER ??????

  4. IN THE WORLD WE HAVE BAD MIRACLES AND GOOD MIRACLES, GOOD MIRACLES CAN BE LIKE FOR INSTANCE MANA FROM HEAVEN, OR CREATION ITSELF WITH EXCEPTIONS OF PEOPLE LIKE DUNGU, THEN BAD MIRACLES CAN BE FOR EXAMPLE A TSUNAMI THIS IS A LISTING UNDER WHICH DUNGU CAN BE CATEGORISED BECAUSE HE ID THE EPITOME OF TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMAN RACE THROUGH CORRUPTION, DIVISION OF THE COUNTRY ON TRIBAL LINES, KILLING WITHOUT REMORSE, THUGGERY, DESTRUCTION OF MORALS IN THE COUNTRY, PROMOTION OF THIEVES AND LEGALIZING THUGERY, AND ALL SORTS OF EVIL THINGS EVEN PROMOTING WITCHCRAFT IN THE CORRIDORS OF POWER.

  5. We should all keep ourselves healthy for there will be comedy after August 2021when the “humble one “is truly is truly humbled…

  6. Why does he always have to talk about tribe when he is in Southern Province? To say that the HH will never rule Zambia, when in the province is casts scorn on the voice of the people there. Then he then asks them to vote for PF.

    At the same time, there are handful of Tongas in public administration. I’m not even talking about cabinet. Look at the heads of the parastatals, the PS’s and Embassies. It is filled with lopsided representation.

    So other than Mukula, Fire Tenders, 48 houses, Ambulances, are we supposed to celebrate tribal marginalization? ECL please sit down sir.

  7. Development is seen not explained. Double digit inflation, reserves depleted, high fuel prices with imininent increase, serious unemployment, exchange rate purely mad after government destabilization of the Mines, Borehole tax for those trying to source water, of which water is life, permanent secretaries with fake qualifications, fic report described as mfwiti, some provincial ministers very low caliber. Development is seen not explained, there is nothing to explain, they can see the mad kwacha

  8. Ba Lulu,naikosa te,you thought leadership is about parte after parte after parte,what you are seeing now from the comments above should make you realise that even being nominated by your party is a long short..anyway thanks for the dissapointing performance, prepare yourself for what is clearly about to be thrown in your face,if only you were just incompetent Zambians would have forgiven you,but on top of it you make looting your hobby?Kaya mulungu adalise forget about 2021,now is the time to surround yourself with competent lawyers because believe me this aint gonna be a walk in the park.If you choose to continue……

  9. What success? Unless they are counting the record breaking prices of the kwacha, mealie meal, fuel etc etc then they are very successful.

  10. I am surprised that he did not address a single rally in Choma, monze or even Livingstone. I thought that he specialises in this and loves it when people are cheering him on even they it doesn’t come from their hearts. Now if he fails or fears to address a single rally where does he expect the local officials to get courage to mobilise the party there?
    Kuya beebele together with his fellow trible me HH.

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