Why vote for a clueless opposition, void of a clear growth agenda?
IS there anything new to change the narrative of 2006, 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2016? Personal frustrations should never be the reason for regime change, voting for a clueless opposition that only speaks ill of Zambia but a verifiable alternative development agenda that should make the existing one questionable.
Families in Zambia must shift from earning an income to creating wealth and wealth in Zambia is in agriculture and not clueless political misfits riding on the ignorance of the people.
Zambia today is a construction site but instead of appreciating the grand effort by the government, they rubbish the achievements as if the people they are talking to don't have eyes to see how the country has changed.
You can't lie yourself to State House. Just be bold enough to articulate your development agenda clearly stating the how factor leading to those with melancholic personalities to buy into your development agenda.
There are no shortcuts in life that offer sustainable solutions. Miraculously changing the economy should not be part of the campaign narrative. Let's ask questions! HOW!!!
The fact that the opposition can only bank on President Edgar Lungu not standing must wake us all up. The opposition is blank as far as national development is concerned.
I keep reminding opposition cadres that you can't change any government by fighting it through lies but by coming up with an alternative development agenda that should render the existing one obsolete.
It's very clear from the UPND's failure to offer an alternative development agenda that it's not a party that can be trusted with instruments of power.
Its agenda is certainly not one based on development but ensuring that Mr. Hakainde Hichilema manages to achieve his political ambition of being the first Tonga in State House as per his disastrous 2006 intra-party campaign narrative that saw the once mighty UPND disintegrating into a third tier political party.
With this straightforward background, Zambians ought to realise that retaining President Edgar Lungu will ensure the much needed stability for a sustainable economic recovery programme.
The UPND would come with its own teething problems and I doubt Zambia can afford such a scenario at this moment.
For instance, being in opposition since its inception in the late 1990s means the UPND owes its sponsors billions of Kwachas, if not US Dollars.
Its preoccupation would, accordingly, be satisfying the needs of the same funders and not those of an ordinary child in rural Zambia. Let's learn from China, Germany, Rwanda or even Russia about the importance, in economic terms, of a stable political leadership, especially in the Office of the President!