Voting in the Msanzala by-election started at a good note following an impressive turnout of electorate at various polling stations.
ZANIS reports Petauke District Electoral Officer, Josephine Phiri confirming the development, in Petauke, today.
Ms Phiri said 51 votes out of 820 registered voters were cast at Mwambula poling station by 06:44 hours.
She furthermore stated that 221 votes out of 621 registered number of voters were cast their vote at Nyamphande Basic School by 07:22 hours while at Mateyo Mzeka polling station 141 votes out of 476 registered voters were cast by 08:30 hours.
She noted that all the 43 polling stations opened at 06:00 hours adding that the election was so far incident free.
The Msanzala seat fell vacant following the resignation of independent Member of Parliament, Colonel Lungu who is re-contesting the seat on the ruling Patriotic Front ticket.
In the 43 polling stations, there are 29, 428 registered voters.
ZANIS
Why should Col. Lungu feel that he can serve the people well as a PF MP rather than an independent MP??? He lacks principles and is simply following money from the governing party period. He should still have served the people nicely as an independent MP. By the way, this simply means that he has failed to honor the manifesto he presented to the people as an independent MP and now wants to work on the PF manifesto which he campaigned against before the Sept 2011 elections. DONT VOTE FOR HIM. When PF leaves governement, this Colonel will join the ruling party at that time—typical of the old Munkombwe. Vote for another independent MP if there is one.
I totally agree with you.
this is an example of the politics we need to leave behind. rewarding this political degenerates like col lungu need to stop some day.at the moment it seems its unlikely to stop.if people of Msanzala vote for this chap again they would be giving an invitation to political insanity and endorsing foolishness of the highest old. this election should not have been about whether you like PF or not but about closing the door to political schizophrenia which in pandemic in zed politicsÂ
Is winter Kabimba alive? or he has been silenced like hippoman Kabwili kikikikikikiki Sata did a donchi kubeba on winter…..no cabinet portfolio.
This is just nonsense from the colonel and his pf bedfellows.what is he going to deliver to the people when he becomes a pf mp?Just personal gratification.Do we really need such kinds of bye elections.GOD SAVE ZAMBIA.
awe .!
Foolishness, utter foolishness! If the people from Msanzala vote for this ***** they are foolish too! Why waste taxpayer money to vote for the same chap who won the election before? If this Lungu won as an independent but agrees with PF manifesto….simply cast your vote for those Bills in Parliament that you side with…..your vote does not have to be along party lines. You can be PF but vote against a PF sponsored bill. STUPID STUPID…taxpayer money being wasted…..PLEASE DON’T VOTE FOR THIS ***** COLONEL AND LET HIM REGRET HIS DECISION!
who is leading in the polls..?i hope the people voted wisely this time around..
This is very good.
Football has healed us from politics.
Not much talk about this by-election.
PF leading but MMD will win this byelection and teach these PF thugs a lesson.