Wednesday, April 23, 2025

UPND disappoints PF

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The Patriotic Front (PF) has expressed disappointment with the United Party for National Development (UPND) for stating that it will not back the PF in the Mporokoso parliamentary by-election.

PF secretary general Wynter Kabimba says it is disappointing that the UPND has decided to make such a decision.

Mr. Kabimba was , however, quick to state that the UPND, just like any other institution has a right to make any political decision.

He says the PF will not force their pact partners to support them in the 3rd March parliamentary by- elections.

Mr. Kabimba has since reiterated his call to the UNPD not to take issues concerning the PACT to the media.

He says the UPND as partners in the PACT should learn to address matters through established channels rather than through the media.

UPND national youth chairperson Joe Kalusa is quoted in today’s Times of Zambia as saying that his party will not support the PF in the Mporokoso by-election because it is clear that there is no longer a pact between the two parties.

However, UPND spokesperson Chales Kakoma has dismissed reports that the party has resolved not to support the PF in the Mporokoso by elections.

But UPND national youth chairman Joe Kalusa has maintained that UPND youths will not back the PF in Mporokoso.

He says the PF has been working as a single party, and does not see the reason to support them in the Mporokoso by elections.

Speaking in an interview with QFM, Mr. Kalusa has challenged the UPND top leadership to give the reason why they should support the PF.

[ QFM ]

43 COMMENTS

  1. The biggets problem is,the two are just too different and if the only reason why this pact exists is to remove RB,then there is everything wrong with this pact. Please UPND, support Sata for presidency and forget this PACT,how many of them have failed. PF can form the next Government but i Know that UPND is the only solution to our misery but we dont have wot it takes to beat MMD this year and the PACT is a means to our end.

  2. how come such tuma junior chaps like Joe Kalusa are allowed to make such far reaching comments and they are not disciplined for that. Doesn’t the party have a designated spokesperson?

  3. ”Mr. Kabimba has since reiterated his call to the UNPD not to take issues concerning the PACT to the media.
    He says the UPND as partners in the PACT should learn to address matters through established channels rather than through the media”.

    kabimba is doing the same thing he is cautioning UPND against doing – TALKING TO THE MEDIA.No wonder UPND is called the under 5.Bali mitola baice imwe.

  4. winter kabimba you and upnd cant mix you are oil and water. kalusa joe speaks on behalf of millions of youths in upnd. kalusa commands the largest number of members in upnd, kalusa is a bigwig in upnd when he speaks thats coming from upnd management committee. what kalusa says is what upnd stands on

  5. kalusa is not a junior UPND member,but a member of the ‘management committee’, the highest decision making body in the party.Whatever he says has the full blessings of the so called UPND ‘big wigs’.

  6. MMD will just finish its money on Kalusa.This chap speaks in his personal capacity not as UPND.Efforts in futility.Dream on.

  7. Joe Kalusa,u will forever be in the opposition…U don’t want the PACT because you wont have a position when we form government!

  8. When Joe Kalusa speaks, he speaks for the grassroots and on behalf of the UPND machinery. Without Joe Kalusa, nothing takes place on the ground no matter who says what.

  9. Who does the ground work in UPND if not Joe’s flank? Kakoma will bark, but, will he move a finger to go to Mporokoso and do the campaign? Of course not. The gound work is left to the battle tested. That is what Joe is.

  10. When did Sata ever talk about the PACT. If you listen to him it is always “When the PF forms Government……….”. I think its time for UPND to move on. If MMD win clean elections then let it be, GOD WORKS IN MISTERIOUS WAYS

  11. Right Kagwizi #14, UPND should leave this marriage of convenience, PF obviously feels they’re superior to UPND, and yet they don’t even have membership cards or manifesto.

  12. On “Mr. Kabimba has since reiterated his call to the UNPD not to take issues concerning the PACT to the media… says the UPND as partners in the PACT should learn to address matters through established channels rather than through the media” this PF’s Wynter KABIMBA has been the biggest calprit over taking PACT matters to the PF Vuvuzela, the post, and he is at the heart of frustrating all PACT meetings.

    According to PF’s Given Lubinda, Wynter KABIMBA is supposed to tell the Nation the PACT 2011 presidential candidate, HH, but he is sitting on this information.

    As for Joe KALUSA and UPND spokesperson charles KAKOMA’s difference in media statements, I hope the mighty UPND will force PF to convene a PACT JNC meeting so that an MP for Mporokoso candidate can be picked…

  13. God works in mysterious ways eh? MMD wins 2011 then suddenly both Sata and RB die of old age. Kabimba leads PF and HH continues with UPND then the two form an alliance in which HH takes the alliance Prsidency. Meanwhile sick George Kunda takes over from late RB. The battle then goes between HH and George in the ensuing Presidential bye election. And the outcome? HH trounces George!!! You have a Tonga for President to complete the miracle!!!

  14. Maestro – When did Given Lubinda annouce this? Please tell us where we can all find this valuable information (apart from in your dreams as we can not get into your head) so we can all have a look. If Given is sitting on this info I will personally make sure he annouces, otherwise…

  15. Comment 15, in politics my brother is the numbers that count and not the cards or manifestos. As long as Sata, a mad man, can pull the crowds and get more votes than HH, sane man, PF is bigger and better. Politics is all about winning after all. PF is a bigger party and UPND must accept that fact the same way UNIP and FDD accepted to allow HH lead the UDA in 2006

  16. But why doesn’t Wynter Kabimba explain what the PF means when they always talk about when the PF forms government and not when the Pact forms government.

  17. 18 Ichi Nyamu Nyamu… check out an LT thread entitled “pact-president-announced-pf” that appeared on LT on 24th December 2010 with the information ““I agree that an announcement has to be made because delaying this any further may work against us, and so the Pact president should be announced soon. I also want to ask our supporters to look forward to the announcement from Wynter Kabimba who is working on that matter,” he [PF appointed spokesperson Hon MP Given Lubinda said] said“.

    I hope you will be careful next time not to take me for a dreamer because I have proved beyond any reasonable doubt that I always present the true which you PF Bemba Kaponyas resist to accept even when it is very clear from the sources.

    Have a blessed day.
    _
    Matt 6:33

  18. Nangufye! Its nice this has come up now. Viva PF we shall go it alone and definetely emerge victorious in Mporokoso. Most people there do not even know what UPND means, PF why bother about them?

  19. UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma has differed with his national youth chairperson Joe Kalusa on the party’s position regarding its support for the Patriotic Front (PF) adopted candidate ahead of the Mporokoso by-elections.

    Kakoma said it was not true that UPND has resolved not to support the proposed candidate Maynard Misapa.

    “If Mr. Kalusa was quoted correctly, that is not the party’s position, we have said that the UPND will not field a candidate in Mporokoso, but we will rally behind our Pact partners PF,” he said.

  20. Sure guys ..why should PF and UPND argue always? The only thing is that a smaller party which is UPND has to accept the vice if they refuse then there is no Pact. Thats how it works world over. A smaller party takes the vice.

    This is what also happened in the UPND-FDD-UNIP Pact, UPND took the presidency coz it was the lagest of the three parties.

    So there is no pact if UPND cant accept the viceship period.

  21. upnd is a useless party..HH is toothless. i remember even this mweetwa guy was coming out the same way but they never did nthin. Donchi kubeba ati tulewina viva PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

  22. Kalusa just like his fellow dull MMD chaps will remain been in the dark. For now Donchi Kubeba. I just want to caution Kabimba not to be answering Kalusa from now on, please do not sink so low

  23. PF was never for the PACT just look at the artciles of Guy Scot who is Sata ‘s NO2 or Wynter kabimba in the Post. Mr Sata has never refuted their claims or rebuked them. HH is so naive to think that the PACT can work SATA belongs to the stone age ask KK or Chiluba they know that this man is not presidential caliber .
    This is what the PACT SHOULD LOOK LIKE:
    1.HH -UPND
    2.ELIAS CHIPIMO-NAREP
    3.NGANDU MAGANDE – ?
    4.G.MIYANDA -heritage
    5.NAWAKWI- FDD
    6.G.LUBINDA- poach him from PF
    7.PATRICK CHISANGA, BOB SICHINGA,SKETCHLEY SACHIKA,PANJI KAUNDA
    8.JUSTICE FLORENCE MUMBA.
    9.SUNDAY NKONDE

    I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE FORMIDABLE OPPOSITION THAT WE HAVE BEEN CRYING OUT FOR WHICH CAN DELIVER US FROM THIS EVIL ,CORRUPT REGIME. Whats more they are clean and not tainted by…

  24. PF was never for the PACT just look at the artciles of Guy Scot who is Sata ‘s NO2 or Wynter kabimba in the Post. Mr Sata has never refuted their claims or rebuked them. HH is so naive to think that the PACT can work SATA belongs to the stone age ask KK or Chiluba they know that this man is not presidential caliber .
    This is what the PACT SHOULD LOOK LIKE:
    1.HH -UPND
    2.ELIAS CHIPIMO-NAREP
    3.NGANDU MAGANDE – ?
    4.G.MIYANDA -heritage
    5.NAWAKWI- FDD
    6.G.LUBINDA- poach him from PF
    7.PATRICK CHISANGA, BOB SICHINGA,SKETCHLEY SACHIKA,PANJI KAUNDA
    8.JUSTICE FLORENCE MUMBA.
    9.SUNDAY NKONDE
    10 MILUPI

    I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE FORMIDABLE OPPOSITION THAT WE HAVE BEEN CRYING OUT FOR WHICH CAN DELIVER US FROM THIS EVIL ,CORRUPT REGIME. Whats more they are clean and not…

  25. 23. Maestro I have read the article, it does not say thet HH is the candidate. So what exactly are you talking about?

  26. # 23, Ba Maestro your statement and I quote
    “…present the true which you PF Bemba Kaponyas resist to accept even when it is very clear from the sources”.

    Does not sound good. We know you hate Bembas, but at the same time you want us to give you Presidency? Why call Bembas Kaponyas, Do you ever hears us telling you that you people must stop sleeping with your cows? We know it happens but we have decided to keep quiet about it. It is your practice, and who are we to stop you or talk about it? We know in your family you have some cousins and brothers who have impregnated animals, but we have kept is as a secret. So, please let us not call each other names.

  27. PF and UPND are two different parties and this fact cannot be denied. PF is a people oriented party hence the mass follow. UPND is a regional and tribal party which was founded and has failed to function outside tribal lines. No one has ever denied the fact that these two need each other, but one seems to focus more on what they will benefit from the other one, rather than benefiting the people of Zambia. Kalusa is not a leader, but a Sarah Palin of the UPND Party. As long as HH fails to control these brainless and passionless youth leaders, UPND will always remain wallowing in the shallow waters of mediocrity. Sata is not there to appease HH or Kalusa or Banda or whoever people may want to put across. His agenda is well known to those who can see, Zambian people first. The rest later.

  28. Kalos2121 you call UPND a tribal party.Well, UPND may be tribal but which party is not tribal? Tell me? Actually i know that the answer is just at your fingertips. You support PF,what tribe are you yourself? The answer is known to all bloggers. It is just that simple.Only some i.diots find it easy to call others tribal and ignore their own tribal tendencies. Actaully all Zambians, including yourself,know that the only real reasons anyone can support Sata are tribal ones. I have observed two qualities in people that support Sata: Its either they are Kaponyas who are struggling to make ends meet and the “90 day breakthrough ” theory by Sata makes them optimistic or if they are educated and doing fine, then they are doing it on tribal lines,Period!. Otherwise seriosly speaking there are no

  29. Why is it not right for a Tonga to support UPND and still be right for a Bemba to support PF and a Ngoni(plus other Easteners) to suport MMD. Lets stop this idiocy. Tongas are tribal but even the quality of the candidate they support is outstanding. It is better to combine tribalism & quality than support a chap with a questionable standing in society and criminal backgrounds. What kind of foolishness is this, people like Sata & RB have taken advantage of the prevailing irriteracy levels in this country to gain popularity! If only 85% of Zambians had at least secondary education then they would not be voting for the type of low lives we see in this country.

  30. UPND youths are justified in their talk..pf only needs UPND when it suits them..announce the pact president winter..you know its HH…hahaha

  31. 37/8 Rupiaitis hats off for your inform to the Bemba-Kaponya tribalists on this blog.

    Be blest.
    _
    Matt 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.

  32. UPND is being tarnished by immature cadres like Joe Kalusa. The chap still thinks he is at ZIT. He should grow up and UPND discipline these jokers that are making you look like you are not a serious party.

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