CHIEF Government Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says the PF have a democratic right to assemble to remember late Tutwa Ngulube, but says it is wrong to use such an occasion as a political showdown platform. On Saturday, PF faction Deputy Secretary General Nickson Chilangwa told party members in Kabwe that former president Edgar Lungu would attend Ngulube’s memorial once a new date is announced, urging them to show up in numbers and to bring the town to a standstill. But in an interview, Sunday, Mweetwa said a memorial was supposed to be a solemn occasion. “If PF wants to assemble in huge numbers to remember our departed colleague the late Honourable Ngulube, may his soul rest in peace, I think that...

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