THE Patriotic Front (PF) in Isoka district in Northern Province have rejected a Caritas Mpika employee the party has imposed on Isoka West Constituency as parliamentary candidate in this year’s tripartite elections.
And PF applicants in Isoka district have petitioned their president, Michael Sata, and the national secretariat over irregularities in the adoption of candidates in Northern Province.
The party’s district and constituency committees in Isoka district have rejected the adoption of Malozo Sichone, an employee of Caritas Mpika, to contest as parliamentary candidate for Isoka West.
The party members, who asked not to be named for fear of victimisation, said in an interview yesterday the PF risks losing parliamentary elections in Isoka, Nakonde and Muchinga if the party national leadership does not intervene to ensure that preferred candidates are adopted.
The PF sources said the manner in which the provincial executive committee in Northern Province is imposing candidates on people will result in the MMD scooping all the seats in the area.
One of the sources, who spoke on behalf of other officials, said a meeting was called last week to resolve the differences, but district officials from Isoka were not given time to speak.
“Imagine, PEC has imposed Malozo Sichone, an employee of Caritas Mpika, on the people of Isoka district, and people here are very upset because district officials were not given chance during a meeting to resolve the adoption problems. They were just told to shut up by the provincial leaders,” the source said.
He said Mr Sichone is not a factor in Isoka district, and his adoption will make the MMD retain the seat.
The source wondered why the provincial leadership brought in an independent observer from Caritas Mpika during interviews when his colleague was among the aspiring candidates to be interviewed.
“There is so much interference, and many preferred candidates will not be adopted because candidates are just being imposed on people,” the source said.
He said the dictatorial tendencies emerging from some provincial executive committee members are a clear testimony of how undemocratic the PF has become.
The source said party members in the province are “very upset” at the manner in which the adoptions are being handled because dedicated party members have been abandoned at the expense of new members who are just being imposed on people.
He said in Nakonde district party members have also rejected adopted candidate Abel Sichula, adding that people in the area wanted a Colonel Siame, and not the Caritas Mpika worker the party has imposed on them.
Recently, another Caritas official resigned from the Catholic Church’s organ to apply to the PF for adoption in Mongu,Western Province.
Efforts to get a comment from PF general secretary Wynter Kabimba proved futile as calls to his mobile phone number went unanswered by press time.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
Ahhh, ignore the story, emanating from ZDM, “Zambia Daily Lies!!”” We might start reading it after it has been cleansed after the election!!!
Oh not from the state media again!
#1; but when the Post writes the same things about the MMD adoptions then we should belive???!!! talking about double standards!!!
well it seems people cant be taken for granted even when they want change they want to ensure that their desired people are taken on board. however i wonder how a prefered person can be adopted because each group has a person of its choice but what if there are four aspirants what happens? Only the popular person among the applicants must be adopted. its not possible to please every person.
ITS DEADLY MAIL AGAIN,KABIYENI ,DONT CONFUSE THE PEOPLE,WE ALREADY KNOW U.
ZDM-MMD propaganda.Don’t listen to lies from these disgruntled newspapers and Chanda Chimbwi the third ninsense.NIPABWATO 2011!
This again proves how PF is undemocratic in all its operations andtrying to hoodwink the electorates.This time the margin between PF and H.E RB will be bigger than ever thanks to PF being so incorrigible and arrogant.Come what may as a logical obsever it is simple logi that MMD is winning this year’s Presidential elections!!Wina azalila nafuti!!!!
Undemocratic nafinshi????
Oh no its on record according to Muvi TV and was live on Muvi TV that MMD candidate for Isoka has been reject by the party structures there so are they trying to cover up they dirty smelling asses now and expose the clean mouths as dirty? MMD we are tired of your foolishness.
Why even write about it? This is not news for PF. What would be news is to hear that Michael Sata is now a democrat.
As usual PF strategy is not working, I mean the attempt to stop us from reading our source of credible information which the Post withholds from the masses. Viva public media, down with discredited Post and its cheap lies. As Chanda Chimba III has stated, the Post will not succeed to cleanse the man that they painted in indelible graffiti even if Mmembe used the most expensive Jik on the market.
Those in PF who are not happy should exchange with those in MMD who are not happy too. Isoka. What is that?
Couldn’t agree with you more,,,,they should do a swap and spare us this noise
Hehe #9 I lik dat,member akalila ububi com October!
These are pure lies, in fact its the MMD who have rejected the adopted candidate.Please please please please LT can be professional just for once! this is very unethical and backward. Shame LT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thats just PF for you..dictatorship!
Do you have a new meaning for the word dictatorship? Why didn’t you say the same when MMD adopted millions of unwanted and unsolicited candidates.
kanitundila ,
Who are you to tell the bloggers to ignore the above story? We are grown ups and you gat no nerve to advise anyone here…..malabishi :-\”
Pathetic Fools (PF) They did not know thats Sata’s party, he picks who he wants and drops he hates …. Get a Life morons.
its interesting to note that all Pathetic Fools supporters are blind to reality.Sata chooses morons to work with and thats why he is surrounded by Nsanda,kambwili, GBM.Its nice to read that isoka has rejected his caritas manfriend.MMD nafuti nafuti
Propaganda everywhere! Zambia Devils Mouth cannot be trusted. Paul sichamba was rejected yesterday by district officials from mmd Isoka and not pf,mind you iam isoka. Can u fail 2 distiquish btn night and day u fools at daily mail?
It is amazing how the PF cadres fail to see and agree that their party is not democratic. This is what is called blind loyalty.
Fellow blogers the story has no substance. PF Â has not announced the candidatecandidates yet so what are they talking about?
Ala! nichi Zambia Dead Mail kansi
LUSAKA TIMES = TIMES OF ZAMBIA = RUBISH BIN (RB)
Surprised that you are still here on LT reading and writing and all ;-)
The owner of the party insults everyday so wat do you expect of the followers? Nibakaponya! Birds of the same feathers.
IMMUNITY – Which planet are you living on? PF is busy selecting candidates. You PF chaps, you are not even following the calendar and activities of your own party???? LOl – That is why PF is a loser, even supporters don’t know what’s going on even though everything is being reported everyday. Isn’t it only last week or the other when the Matero PF Constituents complained about Sata imposing a chap from copperbelt. The problem with PF is that both the leaders and the supporters are daft and have never been to school, or if they have been to school they failed to learn anything. Follow your party intelligently bwana. Meanwhile, I still think PF has no chance. I don’t even know why they are still being covered in the papers!
as long as the voters get divided mmd will win so those who want change by now HH can not win so if you vote for him means mmd wins this is simple logic on ground and thats why mmd when pact could not go ahead are very happy. it had remain to the voters what do you want if want mmd vote for them but if you want change vote for pf because if you vote for HH you spoil by now. and if mmd wins will destroy HH with their machinery of propagada that by 2016 will be no a factor
Remember, like the HIV/AIDS virus, there is no vaccine against the Post yet, so practise the usual protection and use VCT services to confirm your status and that of your partner.
The way you pf guys react to stories from the state media, thats exactly how we react to stories in the POST.
Divide and rule tactics.
we want issue based campaign not lies.isoka pf constituency committe gave malozo 17 votes closest person had 5votes.which committee rejected him if it gave him all those votes.its paul sichamba mmd candidate who came third at constituency.musazifisa the truth bamambala.
u chaps, the truth is the truth. wheather it mes from the daily mail o from the post, just up yo game
the picture acompanying the article is not from isoka.
A petition is a public affair, so how can the source be anonymous… makandi yenu… mulefwaya ukutubeepa na kaili…
…. and where do u think its from?
and just how do u know that the picture isnt from isoka?
how can u be sure the picture is from isoka if the whole story is all lies.
MMD officials in Isoka west have rejected the adoption of Paul Sichamba as the ruling party parliamentary candidate.
The officials, led by constituency Information and Publicity Secretary, Bornwell Siwale, say they are also disappointed with the party National Executive Committee.
Mr Siwale has told MUVI TV that the MMD NEC’s decision is against President Rupiah Banda’s assertions of upholding grassroot people’s assessment.
And Constituency Youth Chairman, Isaac Sichalwe says Mr Sichamba was not on the list of candidates approved at constituency level and then handed over to the party NEC.
@OPNES Â Its NOT about removing RB thats where Zambians get it wrong, it about what you are placing after RB … Just because you PF cadres want your sugar daddy in state house, every Zambian should get on the boat, when they know the history of this boat, it sinks before hitting an iceberg.
 Zambians feel free to chose who ever you believe will look after your interests and national interests, its not about proving to MMD that PaFwaka can survive after MMD. However, just a tip if its change you are looking for don’t re-cycle period.
wapya munzi…PF even before the list is out people are at eachothers necks..gosh..
We now know that all the fools pretending to be Caritas Employees are PF cadres.
Talk of denying access to some wacko reporters at the PF convention. This is the reason. Hey, LT, does your picture above have any relationship with the story? Jokers!
Zambia Daily Mails’ editorial team and the journalists their are shameless. This story is pure counter propaganda for the factual story by MUVI TV about Paul Sichambas rejection in Isoka. MMD hold your fire, most of us are convinced that we will vote against you, so just chill. MMD will lose 2011 tripartite elections.# 35 CARITAS employees do not have to pretend to be supporters of any political party as the law only forbids civil servants to actively particicpate in politics while employed. For starters MMD should resign Canisius Banda and Victor Mukonka from the ministry of health immediately. Ministers and deputy ministers have robbed this country and its people of billions of kwachas in campaigns for RB, while pretending to inspect useless and unproductive ‘development projects’.
If PF was to win and God forbid this country will go backward and it will take many years to come back to where we are today. It is a fact that Sata will ruin this country and even his supporters will regret having supported him. As for the Post they support him for survival because of that ZA loan with Finance Bank that the guaranteed and now is called so they want someone who will help them as they did with Magande against Rupiah. They are an unprincipled lot who act and are ready to support someone they called a thug for survival. I wish Zambians did not suffer from short and memory losses. My fear is if this disease does not come to pass Zambia will not develop.
If PF was to win and God forbid this country will go backward and it will take many years to come back to where we are today. It is a fact that Sata will ruin this country and even his supporters will regret having supported him. As for the Post they support him for survival because of that ZA loan with Finance Bank that the guaranteed and now is called so they want someone who will help them as they did with Magande against Rupiah. They are an unprincipled lot who act and are ready to support someone they called a thug for survival. I wish Zambians did not suffer from short and memory losses. My fear is if this disease does not come to pass Zambia will not develop. I recommend HH to all the Zambian who want development. Vote for real change, vote for development and prosperity.
Opposition parties be weary of wolves in sheep skins within your midst and do not under estimate the MMD propaganda machinery already in motion as your adoption of candidates is in process! The pact disintegrated as a result of MMD propaganda assisted by public media! There is no time for bickering but need to build strong campaign structures and winning strategies. Good luck! Â
I think the best position on this matter would be to ‘wait and see’ the PF adoption list when it is out….remember that has to happen soon, otherwise they will have PF candidates competing against each other in all constituencies.
@ John Zimba. Unless God wants to punish Zambia, He will NOT allow thieves, perverts, adulterers, Gay organizations, looters, tribalists, etc take over Zambia.
PF strategy to gag the mouths of its members started at the Convention they held in Kabwe. They imposed restrictions to a diversity of media institutions to minimise exposure of confusion. For now, let us be fair and give PF the benefit of the doubt by keeping our fingers crossed to await publication of parliamentary candidates. PF, please announce names of adopted candidates to offset any speculations. May be the party needs the input of its senior legal brains such as Musa Mwenye Wynter Kabimba and Zulu to resolve internal disputes.