MONDE DENOUNCES DIVISIVE, RETROGRESSIVE LEADERS
GREYFORD Monde has described as retrogressive and divisive sentiment from some Patriotic Front (PF) presidential candidates casting aspersions on other leaders in the contest of taking up the former ruling party.
Mr Monde, one of the PF presidential candidates has advised his fellow contenders to avoid demonizing each other because the former ruling party had yet again become the only hope for Zambians who have been betrayed by the UPND government.
Monde said it was not correct to denounce leaders that had once served under MMD because all political leaders had a background of having belonged to one political party or the other.
Mr Monde said while late president Michael Sata was the founder of the PF, he had made sure that a lot of his members came from the MMD from where he had been a member for many years.
He said it was a pity that at a time when the party members were trying so hard to rebuild the party in readiness for 2026, some people were plotting and disparaging fellow contenders in the presidential race.
Mr Monde said was sure the late president would not agree with the recent marginalization rhetoric of people who once served under the MMD created by some party leaders.
“This new battle of founder members against those who served in the MMD will lead the party into destruction. This is not the time to begin fighting each other. We are all members of the PF and our focus should be uniting ourselves. It is divisive and retrogressive for other senior leaders and presidential candidates to begin throwing aspersions on their fefellow contenders,” Mr Monde said.
Mr Monde said there was no one who was superior to the other among the presidential candidates, especially that the power to choose who takes over from former president Edgar Lungu was in the hands of the grassroots.
He said PF was formed 21 year ago and that there was no way anyone in the party could have joined at the same time, stating that some joined earlier while others joined in later years.
Mr Monde said among all presidential candidates, there was no one who was more PF than the others that was why they needed to coexist until the day a new president of the party shall be elected.