GBM admits Lungu in power legally

By AARON CHIYANZO THE opposition UPND has finally admitted that the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) was ushered into office through an electoral vote.

The UPND has always claimed that it scooped the 2016 general elections and that President Edgar Lungu was in power illegally.

However, in an apparent acknowledgement of PF victory, UPND vice for politics, Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba on Sunday blasted 300 PF members who were defecting to the opposition party that they were the reason President Lungu was in power today.

The UPND vice president in his statement acknowledged that the Head of State was in office because people had put him there.

Mr Mwamba, popularly known as GBM said at a ceremony held in Lusaka’s Chawama Township that had the PF members not voted for President Lungu, they would not have been complaining about anything.

He alluded that President Lungu was legitimately elected in office and that he could only be removed through the ballot.

“You are the ones who voted for Edgar Lungu, had you not voted for him, you would not have been complaining. So you should be the ones to remove him in 2021. What has put you in power Edgar, is what should remove you,” he said.

Mr Mwamba reiterated that President Lungu should not be blamed for the poverty the country had been subjected but that the guilt should be carried by the people who put him into power.

He said that the same way the defectors ushered the Head of State into power, similarly should they do the UPND leader.

Mr Mwamba claimed that Mr Hakainde was the only person at the moment who could remedy the country from a perceived crisis the opposition party had been claiming the country was in.

He pointed out that the decision by government to remove vendors from the street was a sign that there was a lack of proper leadership in the country.

Mr Mwamba questioned why a listening government would remove people off the streets when it had not provided adequate jobs for locals.