Wednesday, May 8, 2024

President Lungu tells HH to prepare for another embarrassing defeat in 2021

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President Edgar Lungu has told United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema to brace himself for another embarrassing defeat.

Speaking at a public rally yesterday to drum up support for PF candidate in today’s Parliamentary By-Elections, President Lungu said that in 2015, he was just a newcomer on the ballot paper who competed against a man who had been there several times before and beat him pants down.

The President said that, in 2016, he walloped Mr. Hichilema a second time, and stated that if he could beat him twice when he was just a newcomer on the ballot, he would most certainly not fail to do it again now that he was a seasoned President.

The President laughed off the narrative being advanced by Mr. Hichilema that he was scared of him and said it was Hichilema himself that was scared which is why he wanted desperately for PF to have another candidate.

He said his party had delivered massive development in an unprecedented manner in a short space of time and that the people of Zambia have seen for themselves what the PF is caple of doing.

He urged the People of Lukashya to turn up in large numbers to vote for the PF Candidate Mr. George Chisanga whom he vouched for as a person who is educated, responsible, and ready to work for them to the best of his ability.

50 COMMENTS

  1. What a f00l we have for a president! Other than to address the numerous challenges the country faces today, he speaks of an election that is a year away! If you don’t fear the man, why lock him up for 270 days on bogus charges? If you are that popular, remove cadres like Esau Chuulu from ECZ and let’s see how you fare with free and fair elections.

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    • Very unfortunate and unwise too indeed. Defeat inflation, exchange rate, GDP growth, reserves, unemployment. Once you defeat these, then we can agree that you can defeat HH, but not mere rhetoric please. The country is down on its knees and you are focusing on HH

  2. There Edgar said it himself that he beat HH twice in elections. So why he want to beat him 3rd time? Even in football, if you win 1st half, and 2nd half, then there is no scenario to go in extra time.

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  3. Everything happens by chance,(Luke 10:31; Ecclesiastes 9:11; 1 Samuel 6:9). We live in a world that has been fashioned by the greatest Mathematician himself, God Almighty. The probability of HH succumbing to yet another devastating defeat is over 60%. Mark my words. Nevertheless, there is this 40% chance of HH going to State House. Now the UPND leader’s ascent to the point of culmination, the pinnacle of glory, is highly dependent on other factors or conditional probabilities that must come into effect and overturn the tables before 2021.

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  4. What a working visit this was … Kikikiki
    Was this a Parliamentary Bye-elections rally or a Presidential Bye-elections?
    Very confusing.
    Someone is suffering from serious Paranoia over someone. You can’t go on like this! Try to be intensely angry with anyone everyday for 3 months and see what happens to your mental health.
    Please don’t forget 18th October is next month. We’ll play this video and others on that day.

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  5. What a working visit this was … Kikikiki
    Was this a Parliamentary Bye-elections rally or a Presidential Bye-elections?
    Very confusing.
    Someone is suffering from serious Paranoia over someone. You can’t go on like this! Try to be intensely angry with anyone everyday for 3 months and see what happens to your mental health.
    Please don’t forget 18th October is next month. We’ll play this video and others on that day…

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  6. Mwankole is afraid of losing the election. We know you have messed up big time and soon the time will catchup with you.

    Don’t put your trust on security wings that they will protect you soon after you lose the elections. It will never happen.

    PF must go!

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  7. The kind of rage that some people have developed is not good for them and their families. The insults are only for those with little brains they cannot think so the best is insults.

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  8. The president has absolutely no problem but his advisors seriously have. In our days, the president would have a written speech for every gathering in exception of greetings and jokes. Such a speech is crafted to address a scenario with a scope related to who he is addressing. If you are addressing farmers, talk about kandolo.(sweet potatoes), if its students – talk about job creation, if its church members talk about orphans and widows etc etc. Now these days, people will talk about getting lost in Lusaka while campaigning in Lukasha, they will talk about GDP of -4 percent while campaigning in mwansabombwe. Its terrible

  9. If I was Edgar China Lungu then I would put the presidential plane on standby – fueled up and pilots ready – to evacuate him to his Eswatini hideout (that he built with Zambian taxpayers money) the day after the 2021 elections. Because Zambian voters have enough of the greedy corrupt PF regime that has emptied the governments coffers.

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  10. My president is speaking facts. My president does not open his mouth unless he is certain of what he is saying. Look at how angry the upnd diasporans are with the truth. As the saying goes, the truth hurts.

    I am still waiting for hh or any senior upnd leader to agree on a pledge. I have told them that I will run naked from mandahill to arcades if pf loses next election. Why are upnd scared to pledge to do the same thing when they lose ? Is it because you have small things

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  11. it makes sense that pipo have to be transported for free to go and attend (not listen) to such speeches. and then transported back to their homes. and probably also paid some money for attending(not listening). otherwise its very unfair to tell pipo who have come to LISTEN to you pure lies which the speaker knows very well that he is lying. it’s lack of respect for humanity. we should learn to respect each other no matter how POWERFUL some pipo be. this whole bye elections activities are soo soo soo value less. they don’t deserve the quantity of resources spent on them. aint there nobody of authority who can realise that and save the dimes?

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  12. I knew it that they will hold their rally at the market, so that by fire, by force every marketeer and customers will made to do chosokeni chisokone, ushasokone mwana wandoshi. why always disturb people conducting their businesses, when there are so many open spaces for you to hold rallies from, so just because of this rally some went home without selling anything, what a day spoiled for business.

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  13. For a lawyer, chikkalla uyu Lungu is an absolute *****, by his own confession, in 2016, he walloped Mr. Hichilema a second time thus went on to be sworn in the second time. Back to the constitution, if you are sworn in twice, it’s game over. The same goes for football, after two yellow cards you are automatically shown a red card, out. You cannot plead that “no, I came in half way throw the first half so the first yellow card does not count! No wonder things are going way South in Zambia both economically and politically, I mean, what would one expect when such a headless chicken in wielding power in the corridors of state? Chila bushika na akasuba ifili mu kalukobo tapali nangu chimo kano busakala nobupuba, atase!

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  14. This monster has no heart for the people of. Zambia and has taken us for granted for too long . How do you know that you will be alive in 2021? You have been sworn in twice already, no third term Kuya bebele , HH is not the problem for the people of Zambia , it is your lack of vision, corruption stealing and poor economy and lack of accountability , you have even taught your daughter how to steal , come 2021, uzalila!!!!

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  15. @Nostradamus..! Exactly boi. We have all heard it from the horse’s mouth. The man himself has confirmed that he wired HH twice and he’s now going for a third term. Kikikikiki bola naikosa yama.

  16. All bench marks used to measure an economy of a country show us that our economy in Zambia is dead. And this slow death has been there even before covid as said by the immediate past bank of Zambia governor, that being the case would a serious President go to Lukashya and start talking about HH instead of talking about remedial measures which he failed even in parliament to articulate. You see what fear can do.

  17. QUOTE; The President said that, in 2016, he walloped Mr. Hichilema a second time, and stated that if he could beat him twice when he was just a newcomer on the ballot, he would most certainly not fail to do it again now that he was a seasoned President.

    BANE WHAT DOES OUR CONSTITUTION SAY ABOUT A PRESIDENT WHO HAS HELD OFFICE TWICE? THIS STATEMENT IS LIKE SWEET HONEY DEW FOR LAW STUDENTS AND HIS POLITICAL RIVALS.

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  18. Even the last time this President was in Northern province, he did not say anything developmental, the focus was on HH just like what he is doing now, and then Chitimukulu ill advised as well goes to talk about an individual HH as an agenda item, You can tell that this President and his associates do not sleep out of fear for HH, are there no other opposition leaders in Zambia, talking about HH daily is the order of the day. Prepare for exit, your friend RB cried, what more of you who does not even have the political stamina like for RB.

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  19. Seasoned President? Hehehehe…….kuntu wasekako! Your excellency that time people voted for you they didn’t know you. This time they know you very well. The Presidency reveals who you are, not what you know

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  20. Being very mindful that HH is the only opposition leader who can trounce them out of power, they will always talk about him. Dr Kaunda always said frightened little men, this is the true meaning

  21. Look at how upset the diasporan upnd tongas are from the comments above. The gloves are off Haha. Let us not beat about the Bush. You will only be satisfied when your fellow mwana wenu from your tribe rules. This is because you think you will get jobs because your fellow tribesmen are in power. This is why zambian cannot vote for you. Tribalism is not tolerated here. Continue losing. 6th loss is approaching hahaha

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  22. “The President said that, in 2016, he walloped Mr. Hichilema a second time, and stated that if he could beat him twice when he was just a newcomer on the ballot, he would most certainly not fail to do it again now that he was a seasoned President.”
    ECL confirms that he was elected twice.
    Why does he want to go for a third term against the provisions of the Zambian constitution?

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  23. EL was pointing to historical facts regarding his match up with HH.. Besides based on current trends where PF has being gaining and wining in previously upnd ‘strongholds’, a reasonable person would deduce that PF and Lungu will the two by-elections scheduled for today and the 2021 polls Then again the cyber-space has all sorts and manner of persons and hence a varied opinions. One is entitled to his/her opinions, while facts remain empirical evidence.

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  24. This is where Lungu thrives and is in his element – addressing villagers at campaign rallies. If you ask him to articulate his vision for the country or an economic recovery plan or even take part in a presidential debate, all of a sudden his voice and confidence will be lost and he will go into hiding. Enough of this mediocrity.

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  25. ECL is failing to read the mood of the Nation. Macmillan’s wind of change is blowing across Zambia and ECL will be embarrassed if he forces his way thru his Third Term Project. As evidenced by the Crowds in Mwansabombwe and Lukashya welcoming HH in what was perceived PF Strongholds. HH will get voters from all Provinces and will easily meet the 50%+1 Vote threshold. Its going to be difficult to rig the 2021 Presidential Vote. This time around Zambians want a change of Govt and HH represents that change. People are prepared to die to protect the August 2021 Elections Results .The writing is on the wall.

  26. State Counsel John Sangwa the has confessed himself he was elected twice there polish the petition on ur lap top add the video so that the judges will hear it themselves.

  27. State Counsel John Sangwa the has confessed himself he was elected twice there polish the petition on ur lap top add the video so that the judges will hear it themselves.

  28. Your excellency, do not be over confident. In 2015, we voted for you because we wanted you to complete PF’s mandate and Sata’s death gifted you a sympathy vote. In 2016, some of us thought maybe if we gave you a five year mandate, you could do better. Alas, you have totally failed us. Right now the country is under the waste lawlessness ever witnessed, worst exchange rate ever, what else do you want to do? A good actor leaves the stage while the audience is still clapping sir

  29. State Counsel John Sangwa the has confessed himself he was elected twice there polish the petition on ur lap top add the video so that the judges will hear it themselves we have him now

  30. State Counsel John Sangwa the has confessed himself he was elected twice there polish the petition on ur lap top add the video so that the judges will hear it themselves we have him

  31. So sad to see how Zambia has decended into this lawleness……

    from GRZ gassing its own citizens to try to blame opposition resulting in more then 50 innocent civilians being burned alive in our towns by fellow Zambians for the first time in our history, to PF thugs robbing and assaulting police at police head quarters to PF thugs carrying out criminal acts on citizens in full view of police…….

    Not to mention the destruction of the economy…..

    All this under lungus watch…

  32. PF or president Lungu should not compare themselves to UPND as the party is far much better than they. You’re the first to break law and are turning presidency to monarchy for your own good not Zambia s futue. PF lacks leadership qualities. Zambians should defferentient between development and leadership.

  33. As you can see Lungu-People no longer trust you nor want you near the Oval Office.

    You can win the by elections all you want but trust me, 2021 will not be your year.

    The End is near.

  34. Who ever votes for ECL will be making a grave mistake.ECL for the last 6 years has demonstrated that he has no capacity, competencies and vision to Rule this Country and turnaround the Zambian Economy. The time to change this leadership is now. People who will vote in August 2021 for this incompetent and corrupt man will live to regret for the rest of their lives.The writing is on the wall.

  35. mr.president don’t be silly God is the one who choses leader who appointed by God himself so upredictable to know who will win next year’s election your duty is to be quiet and allow God himself to intervene that’s it.And besides, people or citizens of this country they have made up their one to vote for remember u were elected by people not your self mark points I ended here thanks.

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