UPND vice-president Mutale Nalumango says the PF have abused traditional leaders by turning them into their campaign tools. In an interview, Nalumango said chiefs were supposed to be non-partisan, but observed that the PF had abused the traditional leaders. She said it was wrong for any political party to openly ask chiefs to support them as they were custodians of society. “This is an unlawful political party. PF cannot observe any law, and they have no capacity to understand [that] chiefs are institutions that are non-partisan. The constitution is very clear. They should not participate in politics and therefore they should not be seen to belong to any political party or campaigning for any political party. But they have been...

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