MY ALLEGIANCE IS TO LUNGU - JAY JAY
PETAUKE independent parliamentary candidate, Emmanuel Jay Jay Banda has vowed to continue campaigning for President Edgar Lungu in all constituencies in the province and insisted that no one can stop him from doing this.
PETAUKE
independent parliamentary candidate, Emmanuel Jay Jay Banda has vowed to continue campaigning for President Edgar Lungu in all constituencies in the province and insisted that no one can stop him from doing this.
And a senior Lusaka lawyer, Jonas
Zimba has advised that there is no law that stops independents from campaigning for presidential candidates of their choice.
And Mr Banda, popularly known as
Jay Jay said he has also advised all independents from the Patriotic Front to continue pushing for President Lungu because selfish people wanted to frustrate them by telling lies that independents cannot support a presidential candidate of their choice.
Mr Banda said in an interview yesterday that he was resolved that nobody would deter him from campaigning for the President because he wanted President Lungu to amass 100 percent votes in the province.
Mr Banda, who successfully filed in his nomination papers with the Electoral Commission of Zambia on Monday, said he went independent because he was merely responding to the situation forced on him.
He said the truth was that the grassroots had picked him and he could not abandon them because that would have cost the President votes.
The Petauke businessman escorted by scores of supporters who were running alongside his tractor as they trooped to the town centre, said the will of the people would win the day on August 12.
He said he would continue with the mandate of mobilising and cementing the Presidential vote for President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s throughout the Eastern Province under the covid19 guidelines.
Meanwhile, in an interview yesterday, Jonas Zimba, of Makebi Zulu Advocates, said the mushrooming number of independent candidates is an indication that Zambia’s democracy is flourishing.
Mr. Zimba said the trend of independent candidates campaigning for presidential candidates of their choice is in line with the freedom of association.
He said there is need to avert violence by preaching a message that there is no profit in all the problems that people would want to raise through fighting others but there is every benefit by moving in a particular direction of peace.
He said this is because political power is not for sale but for service.