SAMMY, THE CRY BABY AT IT AGAIN
MR Hakainde Sammy Hichilema and his UPND have taken their Crying Sessions to another lewvel. They have written to the African Union (AU) and SADC begging for the two international bodies to help escape the impending August 12 electoral bashing.
Mr. Hichilema, who is notoriously known for perpetually crying and complaining against everything and everyone has taken his baby-cry habits to the AU and SADC after realising that he has no numbers to win the forthcoming general elections.
In his letter to the two international bodies dated March 25h, 2021 Mr. Hichilema has bitterly complained that the number of registered voters in the PF strongholds are too high while the numbers in the three provinces of Southern, Western and North- Western provinces where he performed better in the last elections have shrunk.
Further, he has accused the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) of biasness and non-inclusion.
Here are the facts:
1. It was Mr. Hichilema himself and UPND that demanded to have a new voters’ register. In 2018, they wrote the Commonwealth claiming that the old voters register had foreign nationals.
2. In line with good governance practices and in line with its tradition, ECZ engaged all the stakeholders before, during and after the voter’s registration process.
Even now the ECZ has continued to engage and include all stakeholders in its operations and activities.
3. From 2006, Mr. Hichilema has accused every President and every institution of rigging elections against him. This is a man who has flopped five times against four Presidents and he still accuse everyone of rigging. How? Only him knows.
4. He has realised that he is losing again come August 12 and he has gone into the Excuse Mode, crying and complaining, laying up a litany of baseless accusations against the ECZ so that he uses that as an excuse for his loss. He is trying to hide his loss behind ECZ. It is all a gimmick to hoodwink his supporters and sponsors that the election has been stolen.
5. The ECZ has been holding elections since 1996. It is one of the most credible election bodies in Africa and its record is unrivalled. So to try to taint the image of ECZ in a futile and narcissistic effort to hide one’s own political impotence is unfair and very unpatriotic.