President Edgar Lungu has charged that opposition UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema will never go to State House because he leads a cult that thrives on tribalism.
And President Lungu says the Church is misleading the people by preaching against Bill 10 without reading the contents.
Meanwhile the Head of State yesterday donated K250,000 towards the construction of the United Church of Zambia (UCZ) St. Stephen’s Congregation in Choma, Southern Province.
Speaking when he addressed party officials in the district, President Lungu said the UPND was not a political party but a cult because it had failed to replace its record breaking loser at the helm.
“People who are in the opposition here don’t mean well, they want to portray this region as being tribal, a section of people who want to vote on tribal lines. Tell them that if they want to continue on that trajectory, they will never ever go to State House. No single person can champion political power and say we want political power because we are Bembas or Chewas, you can’t do that. You [should] want political power because you are national. That’s why I found it wise to come here and bring development despite getting very few votes,” he said.
“If there is a party which is democratic it is PF; if there is a party which is transparent, it is PF; if there is a party that is national in character, it is PF; not the one man party with a pocket agenda which is to take one man into State House. That is not a political party, that’s a cult. It’s a cult because when you lose so many times, you are supposed to go to the drawing board and say ‘what happened? Can we substitute?’ Then you put another player. They have never substituted their record breaking loser. He still wants to continue, you can’t win.”
The President urged PF members to lure members from UPND in the region in order to increase the numbers.
“We know that we have no MPs here but please give us MPs in 2021. Start now identifying shadow MPs, there is no harm. It’s not a secret that we want to have our own representatives in the constituencies here so that we can bring development. Start screening people, identify shadow MPs and we will support them. Start mobilising the youths to register as voters. Do you know how to mobilise voters? Go to UPND and get members, go to MMD and get members. This is politics and the secret to politics is numbers,” President Lungu said.
And the President charged that some church leasers were misleading the masses by preaching against Constitution Amendment Bill number 10 without understanding the contents.
“People are talking about Bill 10 for example and people in church are preaching about Amendment number 10 without even having read the document. I have heard some of you. Why don’t you involve us by asking Parliament to give you copies of the proposed Amendment Bill number 10 so that you read it yourselves, dissect the issues therein and then begin talking about it. Elsewhere, I am told ‘Lungu wants to lead for another seven years, Lungu to remain in office forever, that’s what Bill 10 entails’, so we are saying as you search for the truth in the Bible, search for the truth in the secular world in which we live because that’s where authority lies. That is where people who contest for presidency come from, from the secular world,” said President Lungu.
“I am talking about Bill 10 because it is within the law. Parliament will adjourn tomorrow, come back in February to talk about Bill 10 and this is a golden opportunity for you to interrogate all the clauses in there and speak from an informed position. Don’t listen to me, don’t listen to the opposition, read for yourselves and take your own judgment.”
Meanwhile, President Lungu and GBM donated K250,000 and K200,000 each respectively towards the construction of the church.
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We have read Bill 10 and we understand it very well. Don’t mislead us as you did on making Ministers and their Deputies stay in their jobs when Parliament was dissolved. We trust our insitics and are more wiser. We are not going to champion your cause because we don’t trust you!
Thats a cheap campaign shot for a president of a christian nation to say in church!
We should concentrate on preaching peace and share our vision for the nation not hate hate!
One would think by now we have a vision to share with the voters
Hate speech will not sell any more, worse, dancing will not be entertained, especially if one is even a bad dancer!
Is Lungu who decides which person becomes president? It is the Zambian pipo and you, Mr Lungu have failed to lead this nation. Why even go lower than you already are. HH has as much right as you to aspire to lead this nation and WE will vote for him.
God help us
It is good that the president has realised that churches pastored by Pastors for Lungu are misleading the people on Bill 10, for how can one expect that kind of pastors to have the calibre to understand constitution making processes? if he is sure of winning in 2021, why is he donating that huge amount of money to the church? Zambia saw it with Chiluba, who threw Zambia’s resources far and wide to churches so that they can dupe the people that he was the annointed leader of Zambia. People know how Chiluba ended up, a former head of state dying a suspect before the Courts of Law. And where are the pastors who gobbled up his resources? They could not deliver him and today they are in PF, the party whose founder leader they defamed as a satanist and homosexualist. So, go on, purchase the churches, it does not matter for they have become irrelevant to the Zambian democratic landscape. It is unfortunate that HH is playing the same game for he is today seen entering churches, even the ones his faith deems satanic. The Zambian churches have shown that their gods are impotent, as can be seen by the extent to which they fight for patronage of those in political power as if the mandate of the church does not come from God.
I wonder how such people have been living amongst us all the time. How have we allowed the cruel and vision less to lead us? If it’s true that he now doesn’t drink, then it means that his brain is no longer impaired by drink. Very alarming how his unimpaired brain operates. We simply have an incapacitated individual on the most important chair in our country. We must remove him. He is defiling our chair.