Veteran Politician Daniel Munkombwe says the Patriotic Front (PF ) candidate Lawrence Evans for the February 28, 2013 Livingstone Constitution bye-elections set for February 28, 2013.
And Mr Munkombwe said the United Party for National Development candidate Sakwiba Sikota in the Livingstone by-election is not a threat to the PF candidate at all.
The veteran politician expressed his confidence that the PF candidate Evans was the right candidate who was going to scoop the seat without any difficulties.
ZANIS reports Mr. Munkombwe to have said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that it is however, up to the electorate to vote for the best candidate to represent them in parliament come February 28, 2013.
Mr Munkombwe was speaking in a wake of the United Party for National Development candidate Sakwiba Sikota whom the opposition political party has settled for to contest the Livingstone central seat.
He said every political party has a right to choose a candidate of their choice based on the popularity of their candidate adding that he was optimistic that the PF candidate would defeat the other candidates.
He bragged that as a veteran politician, his predictions are always right and urged the parties contesting the two by-elections to campaign peacefully devoid of violence.
Mr Munkombwe also cautioned the people of Livingstone not to vote for the opposition candidate because it is only Government who is able to bring development by working with ruling party MP.
Mr Sikota, who is also United Liberal Party President ,served as Livingstone Central MP before and after the demise of the UPND founder president late Anderson Mazoka.
During the 2011 elections, Mr Sikota did not contest his Livingstone seat t but opted to support the candidature of former President Rupiah Banda before MMD was humiliated by the ruling PF in the 2011 Tripartite elections which saw his Excellency President Sata become the 5th President of Zambia.
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LIVINGSTONE PLEASE VOTE FOR SAKWIBA SIKOTA. REMEMBER MAZOKA’S COMMITTMENT TO WANTING TO CHANGE ZAMBIA FOR THE BETTER.
SAKWIBA IS A HONORABLE COMMITTED MAN AND HAS MORALS AND HE HE CANNOT RUN AWAY FROM YOU- LUSAKA MAN
What development does your sikota brought when he was mp in livingstone?dont look at tribe lines or upnd as a party we want progress now no stories peto!!!!!!!!!!!!
AM NGONI/BEMBA, NOT TONGA. SAKWIBA WAS MOST OF HIS WEEKENDS SPENDING TIME WITH THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND WHEN HE WAS MP.
OF THE CARRY OVER MPs IN PF, ONLY JEAN KAPATA WAS WITH THE PEOPLE AND THAT QUARRELSOME WOMAN OF MUNALI MUMBI …………
LIVINGSTONE VOTE FOR SAKI.
IYO WACHIBUKU, HE WILL JUST INCREASE TARVENS IN THE COMPOUNDS.
Another NEVERS MUMBA! Running two Partys!
You don’t know what you are talking about Mr.Sakwiba Sikota,when he was an MP for Livingstone central and he never put any development in his area at that time, only a mourners shelter at Batoka Hospital, he had no time for his people but was always found in Lusaka.He has no chance this time, will vote against him, period!
I don’t know i Saki is still Honorable mwe. May the best man win. And oh, what happened to Adeleki? hahahahahahhah
nonse old m,an..what development when ther’s no development in Lusaka Central where Guy Scott is the MP.a.and Kabwata where you foreign affairs ..Kanyama..and all over Lusaka..don’t mislead people..that Evans chap will lose hands down..
Evans shouls lose big time. They want him to be appointed tourism minister after the results as they plan to get rid of Lubinda at that point.
Stonians Do not vote for a kaboke Evans and PF
Mukombwe is finishd .. with no more feture , only 4 politics of benft
Zambian politics very interesting,Sakwiba is upnd!! what about his ULP. Another Nevers in the offing two political membership.Chimbwi afwile intangalalo, uka nkhala pa bwino po ipa pa itana.
Veteran polygumus man is mad!! Keep on dusting PF’s shoes for your brread and butter,but i acn assure you that your future is blank.
I dont understand. You mean the Party President is now a UPND cadre who wants to be an MP? Lowly thinking and sinking Sikwiba Sikokta. From party president to a mare MP losing candidate? Sorry for Saki.
Sikota wanted to kill UPND after he lost presidential elections.He is the one who labeled UPND tribal even he though he himself is not Tonga.He is a shame.I dont care who wins as long as the people on the ground benefit but i hate greedy leaders as Sikota or Munkombwe
Same old thinking, only MP in ruling party will bring development… What a primitive way of thinking.
Sata….nists please stop attacking Saki! You’re scared s.hit that the by election you corruptly caused has just slipped away from you. Go Saki Go! The Nation needs you in Parliament!
DURING HIS REIGN AS MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR 10 YEARS,SAKWIBA ONLY CAME TO HIS CONSTITUENCY FOUR TIMES.NOW HE WANTS TO INSULT US BY BRINGING HIS FACE BACK HERE,LET HIM NOT FORGET THAT HE WAS BOOED BY PIPO IN LIVINGSTONE HE ALMOST ADOPTED BY RUPIAH BANDA!ABASH POLITICAL PROSTITUTES.VOTE MMD OR PF
Then wat happens with ULP?I told you bloggers saki sees no future in his party hence very quickly to ditch it.ba mumba bengi
Is Saki running as ULP or UPND candidate? Does he have membership cards for both parties? This is getting confusing to me.
A president for a political party contesting on a ticket of another party opponent as an MP, shame !
YA! African politics is shocking it affects even learned guys,it must be poverty,gentlemen lets kick out poverty for us to become forward thinkers.
where do you belong Siki, if you can not hold on to your party, are the people going to trust you. Please people vote for Evans, he is clean and undented
Does it mean upnd has no credible members for them to want saki who is a president for another party?anyone who has lived long enuff in lstone knows saki didnt do a thing when he was mp,why shud we vote for him again,elo even Regina musokotwane she hasnt done a thing in katombora where she had been mp for some time,what development ll she bring in lstone,worse off she resides in lsk we want our own livingstone resident period,if upnd had our interest at heart they would have picked a lstone resident rather than picking pipo whose names ring bells in pipos minds yet they re up to no good