PF CONVENTION CHOKES OPPOSITION
INthe run up to the PF conference which saw the incumbent President Edgar Lungu emerging as an outright winner, there were a number of pessimistic thoughts from its political competitors.
The competitors’ political redemption entirely depended on the possible fragile and hostile environment in the ruling party. However, the democratic processes have been preceded by a series of elective activities among them elections from lower organs, orienting members on the values and processes among them as well as political education.
This in effect meant that unlike in the past, the PF had gone to the convention with a well-informed party membership and fellowship thus some lessons drawn from the past provided a platform for enlightening the general membership thus the post-convention events anticipated by the competitors were unlikely.
It is thus trite that the recently held PF convention was not a mere democratic fixture, it was an elective process that has defined 21st Century politics. It has entrenched the long held adage that there is life after an election.
Some pessimist embroil in array of unfounded myths that the PF was to cast asunder the organisation of mass movements after the elections. It was therefore a shocker that the PF unanimously re-elected President Lungu to continue with the mantle of leadership and all the proposed 54 members of the central committee were ratified without any rigour.
The opponents of the PF thought the repeat of the aftermath of 2014 convention which made the PF to nearly disintegrate and engage in rigmarole of legal processes while the opponents were campaigning.
Even the self-proclaimed Nigerian prophet who is shunted in South Africa Andrew Ejimadu who calls himself Seer 1 had made unfounded claims that the PF would disintegrate after the convention.
This has not been the case, the PF convention has shocked the prophets of doom as the party has now emerged as stronger and a formidable force.
The united PF has guaranteed stability and it will now culminate into the series of protracted campaigns to retire the most rejected opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema.
The convention has choked Mr Hichilema’s failed political career and he is headed for retirement.