HOW could we expect to win an election in the province with an alleged ‘thug’ using the Edgar Lungu Foundation name as his brand, wondered Dora Siliya in her memoir Minding My Father’s Country, in apparent reference to her successor in Petauke Central Constituency, Emmanuel Jay Banda. Dr Siliya discloses that, at that point, she and then PF secretary general Davies Mwila had formed a bond because he also found Lungu’s preference for Jay Jay over her shocking. She adds that according to Mwila, the shock was that “JJ was a criminal being protected by State House”. Further, Dr Siliya recounts that in 2020, she consulted some people about the future of PF, and Lungu’s friend Valden Findlay told her...