Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has promised that his party, the UPND will adopt a new elections strategy following the Kafue Mayoral election defeat.
In a short statement on his Facebook page, Mr Hichilema stated that the new elections strategy will respond to the current political environment.
“Thank you all for your support in Kafue. Going forward, we are devising a new elections strategy befitting the current political environment,” Mr Hichilema stated.
The UPND has lost a series of bye elections at both Ward, parliamentary and Mayoral levels prompting questions about the party’s preparedness ahead of the 2021 elections.
And a well known member of the UPND in Northwestern Province has welcomed Mr Hichilema’s call for a new elections strategy.
Naomi Tetamashimba said Mr Hichilema’s statement is an indication that all the concerns from the general membership have been heard.
“Congratulations PF at this point I don’t even want to talk about how you got it but the fact still remains that you were declared winners and congratulations. Now coming to my party UPND, this loss is painful because it is a loss that we allowed. The stealing excuse is old now and we cannot continue using that as an excuse.
We lost because we allowed it,” she said.
Ms. Tetamashimba said. ,”We are failing ourselves, we are failing my president and we are failing the people looking for hope. The truth will always sound like hate to those that can’t stand it but at this stage I don’t care what names you call me but I will speak my mind.”
“We are not doing enough to convince people we are a better choice. I for one I know far too well that HH is a good leader and if given a chance can transform this nation but what am I doing to ensure others see what I see?
We are failing. If the other camp’s strategy is stealing , atleast they have one but what is ours? I now see how those that are not strong easily give up. It’s not easy,” she said.
“In the midst of what the nation is facing , people somehow feel they are better off with PF. The njala issue you even need to stop it coz it’s annoying now. The question is what are we not doing right? After a loss we say let’s go back to the drawing board, do we even have one?
You cannot win an election by sidelining the youths and even naimwe Ba youth you cannot win if you only think your job is to provide security to the president. Your focus begins and ends at been security.”
Ms. Tetamashimba urged the party to create a drawing board.
“They say we don’t have strategist , at this point I want to be one, they say it’s the leadership well let’s sit down and see what that means and address it but above all, let’s listen to what people want and let’s focus on what leadership under upnd would look like as focusing on individuals only makes us look bitter,” she said.
Is HH admitting that he has been using a wrong strategy and misleading the masses into the wrong direction.
Naomi, tell your delusional dictator to look in the mirror and start from there.
Naomi is very pretty. HH should make her party spokesperson. That would be good strategy
Naomi Tetamashimba should be running mate come2021.
We need more foot soldiers to protect the ballot boxes. Where were all UPND MPs? Mwaliteta can’t be in 59 polling stations at the same time. He caught PF cadres with pre-marked ballot boxes under Maheu boxes. Unfortunately PF cadres in police uniforms decided to arrest him instead.
UPND was leading by over 600 votes up to announcement of the last 8 polling stations when they delayed announcing & premarked ballot boxes were stuffed in for PF to win.
It’s our last hope of saving our nation from total economic ruin by these thieves called PF.
1.Hakainde should NOT be part of that so called new strategy because he is the main problem
2.UPND should reorganize their secretariat if at all they have one. Their SG is sleeping
3.UPND should disassociate themselves from the bitter, tribal and outright childish propaganda by Zambian Watchdog whose editor is Clayson Hamasaka, a well known Hakainde’s spokesperson.
Otherwise, this Bantustan party has an uphill battle going into 2021 elections.
Elo bwacha nomba!
People of good will and intentions have been telling you this for years….! It is always a WRONG STRATEGY to keep doing the same bl0ody thing over and over and expecting different results. This is NOT even called a strategy at all but, like the wise man Einstein called it; INSANITY!
So, there you have it, the OMNIPOTENT of the UPND called HH has finally come to his senses. Hopefully his NEW STRATEGY will not include ratcheting up violence and more cameo appearances in badly produced ASSASSINATION movies.
HH is indeed a let down.
UPND has been turned into original PF by letting the true PF into leadership.
– Mwaliteta
– GBM
– Masebo
– Kambwili
Where are the Jack Mwiimbu? Where are the Martha Musipe?
Where is Saboi?
Where is gelo Tetamashimba???
Call for provincial conversation first next week.
HH may not participate in 2021.
HH has let down Zambia.
HH has betrayed Zambians
HH has let me down.
Quatrains 2021
THAT WAS THE FIRST NAOMI: IF ONLY THE ENTIRE UPNDEAD GROUPING HAS 6 TO 10 OF YOU, DOUBLE H WOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER MAN.
Naomi Tetamashimba is beautiful. She is the only one who has spoken out alot of sense, bold in nature for that matter. Her boss’ manner of politics is expired, like CK’s. Let her take over from comrade double h. Everyone else doesn’t want to pump sense in double h, not even his own Wife. People close to him have made the beast out’a him especially the like of Katuka, Kamoma, GBVM, CK, Sean, spaka, zay jay and plus a few minions.
I have always said that HH has suppressed his party.
This statement from this young lady is a example of would be good future leaders of UPND.
She has said the very thing that we have preached on this forum.
HH has tried to buy time by giving silly excuses. Always blaming PF, even when they have not done enough. WHY?
Because HH feels entitled to be the next president. When he should work hard to earn it.
One major problem of UPND is that of being a tribal party. That is how HH managed to take over the party from Sakwiba Sikota.
Unless they get a president from outside the three provinces they will remain labelled a tribal party that cannot attract votes from the whole Zambia. This is one real problem they need to address.
violence, hate speech, fake news, tribalism and i know-it all mentality will never take the small god of dundumwezi to plot one or win the hearts of kopala and and the northern block. these people including ba lusaka don’t hero worship just because you are rich, they are a proud people. i just hope the new strategy won’t be to take the bees and lightening sesheke formula to another level.
Ms. Naomi Tetamashimba can make a better president for UPND than HH!
Yes she can, she is logical and think clearer than even most Zambian.
HH has so many weapons. Imagine this hotty as his media and party Spokesperson. That can 70% in each elections.
UPND media and personal assistantship is full of cheap Facebook trash of Watchdogs.
Listen HH, if you have no balls to restructure UPND now there is no way you be reshuffling cabinet.
Start to practice now.
Leave the alliance crap and go back and learn true leadership. Gather these girls, go get Imboela, go get Kabanana, go get Mwanashingwala.
She can’t. She is not Tonga.
Aka kacineena ka Kaonde kapa kanwa..! The late wishi Hon Tentamashimba umutuuntulu fye..!
Sosoliso can we stop insults, just give a good comment unlike insulting a person. insult will never take you any where. You can only impress the mass by good comments, if she has make any mistake talk about what you think is wrong with her, hope i will not be insulted too.
Shame. Extremely insolent, behind and unreasonable. The cream of the UPNDEAD. After GVBM.
It’s not just strategy, tune the message too.
It’s a known fact that HH is relentless, he should start compromising for the sake of common good to be appreciated as a good leader. Leaders that compromise give hope to the people they intend to serve, those that don’t are taken as being selfish, it’s mr HH is labeled SELFISH.
COMPROMISE, COMPROMISE and COMPROMISE.
HH should ask himself this question: ‘What exactly caused this bye-election?’
“Naomi Tetamashimba said Mr Hichilema’s statement is an indication that all the concerns from the general membership have been heard.
“Congratulations PF at this point I don’t even want to talk about how you got it but the fact still remains that you were declared winners and congratulations. Now coming to my party UPND, this loss is painful because it is a loss that we allowed. The stealing excuse is old now and we cannot continue using that as an excuse.
We lost because we allowed it,” she said.” A logical UPND member, I am in shock.
Bye-elections are a waste of party and public resources. They are also an axis of all evils; including stinking corruption. Only sound strategy which is in public interest is anending the cobstitution to get of bye-election clauses. Anything esle is malabishi
You are just a bunch of idi00ts who never run out of excuses whenever you are defeated. Even your followers are all f000ls whose only reason they support you is because you hail from the same area. I for one can see you never winning a general election until you find another leader. upnd supporters don’t just understand how hh is hated by majority of Zambians from PF strongholds. No sane person from the PF strongholds can ever vote for hichilema. This man is incorrigible to say the least, he never learns. You can not be using the same nonsensical language of vilifying Edgar Lungu from day one and hope to beat him in an election. When we say you are bitter, you don’t pay any attention. Today Lungu is corrupt, tomorrow, Lungu is corrupt…….you people are you normal sure? How many times…
We have an uphill battle, the Party needs reinforcement of practical men and women who are able go on the ground. Even the choice of candidates also matters. We have take stock of actions when it comes to selecting candidates. The list is endless and we don’t seem to learn from our past mistakes. Chilanga, Kasenengwa, Mangango now Kafue.
Strategy that would unseat PF? KKKKK young lady be fully prepared because your wa muyayaya Akainde, would not allow to belittled especially by you. He is an adamant man who wants to lead and not to be led. Moreover, unseating PF is not just an easy undertaking those who are frustrated will end up committing suicide because PF is naturally loved by those who mean well.
I like this woman and the way she addresses issues. It will take the likes of her to make me consider joining UPND in the face of many failures and embarrassment of my party (the PF). The arrogancy and lack of accountability gets too much. At the moment there may be many well being people who have been let down by ECL and PF looking for options but to go to a hateful party like UPND is like from the frying pan into the fire. In fact this woman can be your first lady with me as president of UPND!
Kikikikikiki……….you made my day. I thought I was the only one who had fallen out of favour with PF but again going for UPND??……mmmmm. I have my own reservations. That’s why I failed to vote in 2016
Conceding defeat is something that shows that someone has swallowed a bitter pill. He has conceded defeat and wants to move on. Still wanting to attack him is of no value whatsoever, but congratulating him for wanting to make changes in his approach to issues. God bless Zambia
True Leaders don’t hold on too long to their positions! The reason why we fail is failure to respect the importance of succession. Success without a successor is failure (Late Myles Munroe). Late President Mwanawasa did great things but where succession is concerned, he did not groom a good successor (We were only told it was supposed to be Magande but that was not enough) to carry his vision forward! HH is going to make the biggest failure in 2021! He has gone beyond his shelf life. Him standing in 2021 will give PF an easy win. It’s time to come up with another movement to burry PF and UPND! To save face, call for a convention!
We need undented individuals with brand new ideas to develop Zambia. Not those so called experienced politicians. Let us go to the People’s Convention and come up with a team. Those with dirty hands should not be allowed to lead. À team that will bury PF and UPND type of politics.
Changes that he will build roads, schools, universities, colleges, dams, airports and many more which mighty PF is already doing? Will that be a new strategy?
I strongly suspect HH is insinuating rigging & violence in that lucid statement. If you don’t believe me re-read the statement. Young Tetamashimba, I like your courage but it will land you in fire. Anyway nayenda ine…
WHERE ARE THESE JAYJAY AND SPAKA?????
YOU ONLY APPEAR IF ITS ABOUT PF !!!
Rub his belly and Jay jay will appear like a genie in a lamp kikikikikikikiki.
I think UPND followers should wake up. Surely why should it take all these years and resources for HH to realise that he has been misleading educated followers. The question is what type of leaders is HH leading because we have to be worried as a country to have such a type of person to eye for the office of the president. This is a man who can run to the street to pronounce something and after resources have been spent then turn around and say i didnt know. What gurantee do we have that what he will be bringing is also fake
You’re 20 years too late. However here some tips for free.
1) Stop accepting the rubbish that are expelled from the PF. They have nothing to offer apart from finding a ventura for their anger.
2) Let your MPs, councilors operate freely so as to enhance development in their constituencies.
3) Tell the people exactly what you will to benefit them. Simply telling them that under the PF the country has gone down is not enough. They know that since the sale of mines and quasigovernment companies the country has been going down.
4) Most important, get rid of the anger in you. It makes you lose focus.
5) Damage control of tribal sentiments has not been managed at all. Distance yourself publicly on these issues.
6)For once admit that your party is equally to blame just as the PF.
I dont know who the hell this lady is but am impressed that she has at least, if you can read in context, hit the nail on the head! As we have been saying for all these wasted years by UPND, the problem that there is TOP leadership, period. In short, she is telling the likes of Jay Jay and Spaka that HH is a liability and if you continue holding your hopes in him, forget it.
Democracy calls for openness, inclusiveness and humility, which HH doesnt possess unfortunately. Tentamashimba has clearly told the blind UPND that you dont win souls or minds of the people by coercion and falsehood. She has indirectly told ba HH, GBM and the tired top leadership of UPND that the responsibility to put food on the table purely lies with each individual and hard work NOT Government. Nowhere in the…
She must be the daughter of Tentamashimba, that minister who used to dance for Mwanswasa the Freedom Sikazwe dances for Edgar Lungu. Her group which included Dr Musokotwana left MMD for Upnd when Rupiah Banda became president.
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She has indirectly told ba HH, GBM and the tired top leadership of UPND that the responsibility to put food on the table purely lies with each individual and hard work NOT Government. Nowhere in the world has any government put food on someone’s table, its man’s responsibility and hard work, be in formal and or informal employment. Hopefully, this is the end of HH era in UPND.
The truth is that Hichilema isn’t as clever as his supporters portray him, most of his actions aren’t well thought. If his foreign sponsors want to see what I mean let them sponsor an elective UPND national convention. They will see who truly Hichilema is, any formidable challenge will be met with violence. That’s why he isn’t willing to democratize his Party
Tell them baby….I like you Baby.
TRUE UPND has been failing to convince the electorates. Need to change your language, it’s just too vulgar, no facts, boastful etc.
Drop the tribal strategy, drop HH and choose another leader.stop being bitter and provide alternative government not always inciting hatred. That the new strategy you need
6) Admit publicly that your party is as guilty as the PF for political violence.
UPND made a grave mistake AFTER THE DEATH OF MAZOKA . Before burial day,TRIBALISM was unearthed.
ALTHOUGH,typical BATTLE started with Nkumbula (ANC) and KK (UNIP) but KK was smart enough.He surrendered some government ministries to the southerners e.g Ministry of Agriculture,commerce and trade.KK gave them social freedom until in mid 70th when KK advocated for one party state because of Western powers which changed a lot of economic policies through IMF . The western imperialists used people from south and west part of Zambia. INDECO , FINDECO as well as other parastatals were undersigned by the ANGLO-AMERICANS the same sponsors of HH.MMD was formed in U.K mainly by our friends from southern and western provinces,so the the agreement was made to have the ANGLO American liquidate the…
Only a tribalist will give you thumbs down.
Madam Naomi Tetamashimba has said the BITTER gospel truth about UPND which many of us have been singing about.
The strategy of insulting president Edgar Lungu daily,using violence,talking about NJALA as if poverty or corruption started in 2011 will never win UPND any elections in Zambia.
Late Michael Sata had simple messages such as “more jobs,lower taxes,more money in your pocket,more new schools,hospitals,new districts,new road-link Zambia 8000 (meaning Sata’s PF will tar 8000 km of roads across Zambia),etc!!!THIS MESSAGE IS SIMPLE FOR ANY ZAMBIAN TO UNDERSTAND AND BELIEVE!!!But what do we hear from HH’s team?insults about ECL and PF daily.PEOPLE WHAT TO HEAR A PROPER PLAN ABOUT A BETTER ZAMBIA TOMORROW AND NOT INSULTS!
Hon.Davis Mwila should send the PF chairman for N/Western province Mr.Kungo to recruit this wise lady Naomi Tetamashimba into PF.Her wisdom is being wasted in UPND where everything starts and ends with HH!!!
Look,if UPND wont go for a convention before next general elections to change many top leaders,they must as well forget about winning in 2021.Yes,UPND shall only keep on winning on FACEBOOK!!!President Edgar Lungu’s PF conduct party elections across Zambia to bring in new energetic leaders to push PF further.This seems simple,but it is very important.During elections,almost all PF MPs,ministers,MCC,several foot soldiers,etc are involved in campaigns WHILE UPND MPS,TOP OFFICIALS STAY HOME.They all depend of HH who has no proper message of HOPE to the Zambians.WINNING AN ELECTION IS…
Gay Jay trib.al, bakufuna bantu pa LT, wahwa musaa?
As for upnd trib.al, young lady you are entirely wrong and lost if you think that trib.al upnd and its Trib.al Hacks can be rebuilt, rebranded, revitalised or whatever nice words your vocabulary allows. Apart from Jesus no other person has been brought back from the dead. If that were possible, you could have brought back your father, you loved him dearly no doubt.
Don’t waste your time with corpses like trib.al upnd and trib.al Hacks, join my party launching January 2020 as the only viable option to PF.
I can assure you that PF is easy to send to the scrapyard in 2021, with a simple viable option like my party not the dead trib.al upnd.
Bwana HH you cannot promise a new election strategy other than to be a good looser and accept defeat. That is it.
If I said that there us something absolutely wrong with trib.al Hacks, would I be cited for defamation of a president? Not defamation of The President, please note, as in The People vs Sean Tembo …. kikikikikikikiki…..
It’s too late for UPND. Nothing they do will rub out the experience of their violence, annoying tactics (marches, walkouts out if parliament). If you spend the first part of your presentation to the citizens based on tiresome, worrying unprofessional conduct, then you cannot come back as wolves in sheep’s clothing. YOU MADE A HUGE MISTAKE at onset. You did not appeal as a party for ALL ZAMBIANS. Tribalism is not just a perception, the way the. 3 provinces, South, West North West voted is annoying to other Zambians. You can’t run that out. Even a change of Leader will fail because HH is larger than life. It’s widely understood that you want to divide Zambia, bring to the for tribal promotion. I honestly can not see how UPND can turn this around, you have created so many…
Even a change of Leader will fail because HH is larger than life. It’s widely understood that you want to divide Zambia, bring to the for tribal promotion. I honestly can not see how UPND can turn this around, you have created so many enemies by winding people up. The worst is going to Western countries to ask they stop financing Zambia so you prevent progress. It’s futile. Maybe disband and join into other parties to serve. You are not proper patriots.how can people trust UPND now?