THE National Restoration Party says it is willing and able to offer leadership to make sure that the opposition alliance is a success. NAREP has affirmed its commitment to the opposition alliance following the withdrawal of the Patriots for Economic Progress on Wednesday. NAREP secretary General Ezra Ngulube said the party believed that Zambians were not interested in small political parties or individual political parties but in unity of purpose for development of the nation.
“The National Restoration Party would like to affirm our commitment to the alliance and we are willing and we’ll be able to offer leadership to make sure that it is a success. It is not right for us to separate from the alliance at this point, so we are disappointed that our colleagues from PEP have decided to leave the alliance,” Ngulube said.
He clarified that what was obtaining was not an electoral alliance, but unity of purpose. Ngulube added that leaders of the alliance previously held discussions on how best to move forward. He said certain conclusions were being met and therefore it was incumbent on secretaries general of respective parties to relay them to the general public. Ngulube added that the opposition alliance had reached a point where political parties were able to agree to disagree.
“Yes, as in any other sector of life, it is normal for individuals to disagree. There are disagreements in the alliance. It could be some individuals’ purposes to disrupt our intentions, but as leaders and as NAREP, we think it is not right for us to wash our dirty laundry in public before a proper discussion. The Roan election was one of our first attempts to a united purpose, so for anyone to decide to leave is a move that is wholly individualistic and they shall not be forced to stay as they also were not forced to join,” said Ngulube.
“We have reached a point where political parties are able to sit together and agree to disagree. This is our alliance and as leaders we will work hard to see it work. We will carry on pushing our agenda because we believe that nobody should win unless there is a united purpose of us winning together.”
On Wednesday, the Patriots for Economic Progress announced its immediate withdrawal from the opposition alliance. Speaking at a press briefing in Lusaka, PeP leader Sean Tembo said the need for opposition unity as a prerequisite for electoral victory in 2021 was not shared by some of the key members of the alliance. He said some of the alliance members believed that they were capable of winning the 2021 general elections without the need for opposition unity.
The Blind leading the blind
It’s actually just a clash of egos and nothing else.
“United we stand and divided we fall” so goes a wise saying.
God bless Zambia.
What are bringing to the UPNDEAD table spaka like lilo demands.
Total submission anchored on blind following since you don’t have votes.
Better you disband and get swallowed in the deads den I submit since you don’t have votes.
Chipimo, your dad was a galant man of virtues, sad the offspring talekota bwino.
I wish you well as you pay allegiance to double h. Let’s just say the alliance is doing fine for the sake of impression.
Chipimo is an educated intelligent man.
He knows how many votes he comes with.
Proportional representation.
Not some of the other one man commando parties who come with 11 votes and want to be making noise.
Chipimo work hard within the alliance.
NAREP is principled like my closed Heritage Party.
NAREP cadres can’t beat up Chipimo in Kabwata.
But that Sean Tembo is pron to beatings by anybody, including PF cadres like PF leaders who get beatings, or beat each other at outside parliament.
There is no opposition party in Zambia that can stand against PF as of now. This is the more reason why these Alliance are formed.
HH as the leader of UPNP is not confident to beat Lungu. This is why he is so desperate to bring in these Brief-Case or One-Band Political Parties. The problem is that they cannot bring the numbers he needs & help him at the ballot, to get into State House.
He is best to concentrate and go it alone. However, he is a very (i)Desperate & (ii) Bitter Man. And these two are recipes of one making mistakes over and over.
Independent Observer ^ 1.5
As painful as it is, I tend to agree with your analytical view and brutal truths My party UPND has stopped listening for advise. We have lost many By Elections due to the fact that the leadersship don’t listen to the people on the ground. Ratther than accept the peoples choices, they impose who should stand. Now we find ourselves begging for Alliance
Uluse
You are living in f.ool.s paradise
I hate to say this, but this makes no sense. You cannot be both in alliance and competing parties. This hardly works in Zambia because it is an oxymoron. These guys need to decide if they are one party with common agenda or different parties using each other as stepping stools.
Unity of purpose for what? How does this work when you are to compete against each other in elections? I thought what happened with Roan and Bahati would continue. Ba Alliance you look directionless and you are headed for a big fall.
THE BEATING OF GL BY SUSPECTED PF CADRES IS AN
EXAMPLE OF HOW FAR PF HAS TOLERATED LAWLESSNESS IN THE COUNTRY.
AND WITH FAILURE TO IMPROVE THE ECONOMY OF THE COUNTRY,
THESE BEATINGS WILL JUST BE COMMON SCENES AMONG PF LEADERS.
RESIGN ON MORAL GROUNDS OR BE EMBARRASSED
Some of those parties who signed up to the alliance don’t even have a campain budget……they don’t even have any hope of getting an MP yet after joining the alliance , they suddenly feel big….
Let the noisy trouble makers with no value leave now….natural selection at play.
Maybe after they leave the alliance they can inflate themselves and get PF to bribe them…..
#6 GENUINE, you will also note that Hon Mwanakatwe also visited her constituency over the weekend and she was not clobbered. Does it mean that unlike Hon Lubinda she does not “eat alone”.
Or maybe the difference is that she went with TV cameras blazing,
….. economy is biting now what more come 2021? Kaya!!
What opposition alliance naimwe ba NAREP ubupuba? Just agree to join Trib.al Hacks party, otherwise you will continue scampering one by one, who ever imagined that Sean Tembo would discover the truth about the alliance and trib.al upnd? He was speaking exactly like you NAREP
Ezra Ngulube, but for you Ezra Ngulube it’s worse if you realise that Trib.al Hacks loathes nsengas!
Ngulube was quoted as saying: ‘The alliance was not formed for electoral victory but unity of purpose’.
Really? why did UPND field a candidate in Lubwa ward if its not for electoral victory?