‘Don’t cling to PF’
By MUKOSELA KASALWE DO not cling to the Patriotic Front (PF) if you accuse its president (Edgar Lungu) of being a bad leader, disgruntled former ministers have been told.
In an interview on Thursday, PF Mandevu constituency secretary Lemmy Bwalya said those condemning government but clinging to the ruling party were misguided.
Mr. Bwalya said disgruntled individuals who were no longer in government but had held on to the ruling party were pretenders because Mr. Lungu is not only republican President but also PF leader.
He said there could never be a good party with a bad president, hence all those clinging to the PF were liars.
“It is a fallacy to insinuate that a good political party can have a bad president. That is a contradiction and if so, why are these former ministers clinging to PF? It only goes to show that these disgruntled individuals are misguided,” Mr. Bwalya said.
The youth leader cited Roan member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili as one of the disgruntled individuals because he rushed to court to challenge his expulsion from the PF, the party he had kept on attacking.
Mr Bwalya said if the PF was as bad as some individuals were portraying it to be, they would have been the first ones to relinquish their parliamentary seats but this was not the case.
He said the current political atmosphere showed that President Lungu had many political opponents within and outside the PF.
He added that opposition political parties were aware of the ruling party’s strength, going by the development it was delivering.
Mr. Bwalya however said this should not make PF members to be relaxed but work extra hard.
He said the PF government’s robust development rate would give the ruling party an added advantage to amass more than the required 50 plus one vote threshold in the 2021 elections.