MWEETWA GOES FOR ECL

GOVERNMENT has singled out former President Lungu as being the architect of the formation of an opposition political parties’ alliance under the name of United Kwacha Alliance (UKA) whom it has claimed shall be a presidential candidate for the 2026 general elections.

And Mr Mweetwa, who is Chief Government Spokesperson yesterday took time to rubbish and discredit the UKA, an opposition alliance of nine major opposition political parties, describing it as a joke and an assembly of politicians he believes are in kindergarten.

According to Mr Mweetwa, the UKA was nothing but a rebranded PF without any form of stamina to get anywhere closer to unseat the governing UPND.

Mr Mweetwa went on to attack former President Lungu as a man of no consequence even when the former head of State did not make any statement when the opposition political parties were announcing the formation of UKA.

“This alliance called UKA is an alliance of the PF and some individuals. If you remove former President Lungu and put the rest of the opposition political parties’ presidents, all those who stood in 2021, I as Choma Central MP, I got more votes than their votes combined. So, I am a much bigger alliance,” Mr Mweetwa said.

“So, that alliance is the PF rebranding. We are aware that the UKA is fronting Mr Sakwiba Sikota as chairman of the alliance but we know that they have already chosen former President Lungu as a presidential candidate for the 2026 general elections and he (former President Lungu) is a major financier of the alliance,” Mr Mweetwa claimed.

According to Mr Mweetwa, the alliance had leaders who he claimed were full of bitterness and hatred against President Hichilema whom they had written off would never ascend to the country’s presidency.

Mr Mweetwa said the formation of the UKA was an indication that democracy was flourishing and that assertions that the democratic space was shrinking should therefore be dispensed with.