Centre for Election and Governance (CEG) has attributed cracks in the opposition Patriotic Front /United Party for National Development (PF/UPND) Pact to violent UPND youths who have continued to issue derogatory remarks against PF leader Michael Sata.
CEG Chairperson Gershom Musonda said the behaviour by the UPND youths was an expression of lack of discipline and respect towards their leaders in the pact which include PF president Sata.
Mr Musonda said actions perpetrated by youths in the UPND explained why there had always been violence during by-elections like the Mufumbwe by-election which left many people injured.
Mr Musonda said this in an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka today.
Recently, Opposition United Party for National Development UPND National Youth Chairperson Joe Kalusa charged that Mr Sata had reverted to what he termed as his old thuggery ways
Meanwhile, the CEG Chairperson has urged the two leaders in the pact to show maturity and respect towards each other rather than concentrating on name calling.
Mr Musonda said the pact was a national asset which required noble leadership from the two leaders to instill trust in the public if they were to form Government next year.
“The PF and UPND are the strongest opposition political parties in the country and they should lead by example to upcoming political parties if our political environment is to be conducive” he said
“Name calling and self motives among political players will not build their reputations or our country but it will just bring disunity and confusion in the country” Mr. Musonda has observed.
Mr Musonda has since urged the pact to come up with a candidate and form one movement if they were to remain strong.
[pullquote]“Name calling and self motives among political players will not build their reputations or our country but it will just bring disunity and confusion in the country” Mr. Musonda has observed.[/pullquote]
He further noted that divisions in the pact were as a result of lack of good leadership and direction from the two political parties who seemed to be running the pact as separate political parties.
“If they think it is a political tack they are playing not to reveal the pact candidate then it is a bad one because it is just discrediting at the expense of building them”.
“Their Electorate are now losing confidence in them because they seem not to have any direction in as far as the pact is being managed and if these issues are left an attended to, then the worst is about to come in the pact” Mr. Musonda said.
Bickering and name calling has marred the pact with the two leaders and youths throwing mud against each other rendering the alliance ineffective.
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Thank You for the Good advise Mr Musonda. We need watch dogs like your organisation to give advise such as this.
Mr Musonda is economic with the truth. How doe he single out the UPND youths and leaves out the PF youths and the thuggery .Both parties are to blame for the current situation in the pact. For the youths in UPND, one would understand the problems associated youths but for the adults in PF Sata, Kabimba, Guy ,who have behaved below the level of the youths, it pathetic to the say the least. For Mr Musonda to single out the UPND youths hi is not sincere or he is cadre of PF. PF is full of hooligans including the president and the youth chairman Eric Chanda who has called HH names ,yet Mr Musonda keeps a deaf ear .Mr Musonda give us a break and concentrate on personal to holder NGO
What can a musonda say that makes sense. Unless he tells us the Sata is a upnd youth I will not agree with him. Bembas are no good for Zambia.
You musonda, you are very stupid…!!! why do you leave out SATA, KABIMBA and Scot, now you want to blame good people just to promote this rotten teeth of yours MC SATA. It will not work if you think UPND will pave way for SATA, whom we know how he behaves. Just keep quit you tribalism bemba man. You think we will change our minds towards sata, forget man, SATA is not a presidential material and should not be allowed near the corridors of power. whom do you want to cheat you kambova…!!!!!!
Nobody in their right senses will buy this nonsense of the blame game being sown by MMD schemers in the ranks of the PACT.
PF and UPND members should see through this scheme aimed at creating more confusion within their ranks by MMD who will not rest but continue pouring seeds of anarchy to perpetuate the percieved cracks.
IT’S NOW TIME TO START ORGANISING THE PACT AND MOVE ON TOWARDS VICTORY
Musonda! its people like you who have tribal, unbalanced analysis and diagnosis of the problems in the pact. Do you tell us that sata**nist recent comments on HH was building? Lets be honest, the two parties are to blame. HH is the only guy who has shown maturity and deserves presidency.
musonda ….you are a tribalist. bembas always exposing there tribalism at any given chance.
how dare you come up from a toilet and blame quiet people in UPND! typical bemba,.. tribalist at it.
be aware that If HH IS NOT PICKED AS A PACT PRESIDENT THEN FORGET THIS PACT. UPND IS THE GENUINE PARTY FORMED TO IMPROVE PIPOS’ LIVES. PF WAS FORMED TO REVENGE TO MMD FOR NOT PICKIN SATANA FOR PRESIDENCY BY CHILUBA. SATA WILL NEVA RULE ZAMBIA. REMEMBER CHAWAMA EPISODE, THIRD TERM EPISODE, SUPPORT OF KAFUPI IN 2008? HOW DO WE TRUST SATA WITH WITH ZAMBIA AS A NATION????? FORGET ABOUT THE OLD MAN. HE IS NOW A HISTORY. ONLY HH FOR PRESIDENT sharp!!!!
It will not help to hate bembas always. Come what may, Bembas are a force to reckon with in Zambia. You will just go hang yourselves while Bembas will remain ever in the political arena of Zambia. Infact you who want to rule Zambia even when you always come third in elections is to embrace the Bembas. Its reallly so stinking of you guys that you hate Bembas for no reason. Just come to your senses and admit that Bembas are a force in Zambia. Dont barry your heads in the sand.
#6&7 head on the nail. Huray!! Sata has managed to expose himself as a sectarian leader. Firstly he has no regard to youths (whom he called underfives). This to me is clear suggestion that he shall disregard young people in his cabinet. Its time for the young to send this old man out of politics. Its reality that even trees shed off old leaves paving way to new ones and then only can you see good fruits. If one’s reason fails by advocating for the old its as good as calling for old model vehicles back on the road replacing new ones. how would the country be?
Some Bembas and Some Tongas are tribalist( kingdomnist) to the core, it’s about time the rest of us said something. We know pf and upnd are the most regional parties but we choose to hope for a better Zambia. Maybe a party with leadership from neither the south nor the north or luapula is what our nation needs. I am fed up of trivial issues please grow up hh and Sata.
#10 Mwanawakwitu…. Even you belong to a tribe. RB forexample has a cabinet predominantly eastern. Even songs on radio 2 are predominantly from the east. Tribes will always be there. But the issue you shld have raised could be that of rotating leadership. Lets say every five years we change. in this way you find even yourself standing a chance to exercise leaderhip. Remember that trees shed off old leaves to pave way for new ones and then you see good fruits. even biblically, Moses started the journey of salvation but the young jesus completed it. Now we use the new testament more than the old.
On “CEG Chairperson Gershom Musonda said the behaviour by the UPND youths was an expression of lack of discipline and respect towards their leaders in the pact which include PF president Sata… Musonda said actions perpetrated by youths in the UPND explained why there had always been violence during by-elections like the Mufumbwe by-election which left many people injured what can any sane person expect else from a Bemba person, Musonda? Skewed rants as indicated in the above article and nothing else that can make sense.
I urge, PF cadres, like this Musonda to reflect on what is important for Zambia and Zambians as opposed to what Bemba people will get out of the former PF-UPND PACT which has now become the UPND-Zambians’ PACT that HH is leading.
Be blest all.
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Matt…
Musonda satannyokoo.if you have nothing to talk about zip that immitation of a mouth
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vj plis can you spare us from your tribal sentments
I have never Musonda to be a logical person. He comes out very dull whenever he comments on public matters like this. It is senseless to equate Joe Kalusa’s public criticism of Sata (nyoko) to physical violence. The two are not related.
Ba PACT, IF YOU ARE SERIOUS WITH THIS PACT THING, THE TIME TO AGREE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IS NOW……SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN ADVICE BUT IT LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE AVOIDING THIS ISSUE AT ALL COST……THE RESULT OF THIS PROCRASTINATION IS LOSS OF CONFIDENCE WHICH YOU HAVE BEEN ENJOYING ALL ALONG. BA HH PLEASE JUST CALL FOR A PRESS CONFERENCE AND ANNOUNCE YOUR SUPPORT FOR BA SATA… THIS IS AN OBVIOUS MATTER…..WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD AND TACKLE MMD..WE ARE TIRED OF THIS BICKERING……
i wonder how some so called youths think,its no wonder sata called us under5 indeed we hav some under5s amidst our country.traditinaly adults should be respected at all costs.in as much as u are agreved with this politicl tension,u are,get me right,u are obliged to respect your elders.isabel u r far too young to be insulting elders.its senseless to even call this conuntry a christian natoin,pathetic indeed.jus use a vote in 2011,no insults.vivapact